Ronaldo grew to be “the cries” and this destined it to excellence

Cristiano Ronaldo turns this Wednesday 40 years old. Much cried over these more than 30 years of football. And we just have to thank you for that.

No one has doubts: Cristiano Ronaldo It is one of the best athletes in the history of sport. For many (including their own), it is also the.

Opinions and distinctions aside, Ronaldo is an athlete like never before and, always, was intended for excellence… Were it not for him “cries”.

The closest, both family and friends, count, in each interview that, since very young, Ronaldo was extremely competitive.

In his head, only one word made sense: winning. When I lost, it was frustrated, grunted and… Cry.

In a recent interview with, Kátia Aveiro revealed who was the father himself José Diniz Aveiro (died in 2005) “MONEY”.

“When Cristiano was small, He cried a lot in games when he lost. My father said ‘Look Chora is coming’“He recalled.

The same nickname was then adopted by teammates over the years.

In 2017, in an interview with, Ricardo Santosformer colleague of Ronaldo in SwallowHe confirmed that the one who would become the best player in the world was “the cry” – precisely, because he cried whenever he lost.

Little Ronaldo then followed to the National… Where it continued to be “cries”. This is what tells the RTP journalist Tiago Góes Ferreirawho was CR7’s colleague in the INSULARS in 1995.

“His funny was competitiveness,” he said. “Since football Even the matraquils (…) cried. He cried a lotwe called him cries. The guy was sanded and really cried. In training, when the coach gave him in his head, the guy cried, ”said Tiago Góes Ferreira.

But it was this mindset that made Ronaldo one of the best if always.

Little CR7 was already obsessed with winning… or, as others say, it was “boring”. In the context of the 40th anniversary of the Portuguese star the former colleague at the Sporting Academy Duarte Monteiro explained why.

“I remember that in training he was Too competitive. Sometimes it even became boring because he always wanted to compete with the best. When I say with the best, it is the one who would be the fastest athlete on the squad, he would only speed this athlete if it was to jump higher, he would only do those exercises with the athletes who jumped louder, ”he said.

Ronaldo didn’t cry for any love

Duarte Monteiro also said that Ronaldo vented a few times with him, where he said that I just wanted girlfriends after being the best in the world.

“I remember some conversations that he told me, jokingly, that it was going to be the best in the world. Relatively, for example, girlfriends, he said: ‘I don’t want to know any of this, I’m just getting married after 30, when I do my career, I will be the best in the world, I will create my legacy, ”he said.

And if for women it didn’t cry, Ronaldo continued to cry (and a lot) For your great love: football.

One of the first images that marked Cristiano Ronaldo’s career was precisely the Compulsive crying, in the Euro 2004 finalafter the defeat against Greece.

It was one feeling of impotence coming from a kid of 19 years That had not been able to give the first title to his country… Why would he think that he had this responsibility?

12 years later, em 2016Portugal reached the final (in and against France), Ronaldo cried again. He had injured, still in the first part. Was it happening again? Cr7 was feeling powerless again.

At the end of the game, “The Cry” cried again – but finally, with joy. After all, all the tears previously spilled were worth it. Ronaldo won.

In Euro 2016, Ronaldo was 31 years old. Few predicted that eight years later, in 2024 and already At 39, Ronaldo would again cry at the service of the national team. But it happened. Ronaldo did it again, again in a European, after failing a penalty against Sloveniain the round of 16 of the competition.

At 39 (repeat) the hunger of winning was still there; And the little and insatiable “cries” too. And it is precisely this way of living life and football that make it reach 40 years as an athlete of excellence.

Chora comes in this Wednesday, February 5, in a new decade. We do not know for how much more years we will continue to have the pleasure of seeing it “cry”. We only know (soccer lovers) that, When the end comes, who’s crying.