Cristiano Ronaldo: an athlete addicted to his body and to success

Champions League Without obsession is not art. Even on his 34th state Cristiano Ronaldo every day with the feeling that he is best in the world. The exhibitionist, who with his bewijsdrang as a journeyman at the age of twelve his dream after he sprinted. In the mirror he recalls a lonely journey and he says to himself: “I am the best.” A footballer with balls.

“When I started playing football I had the feeling that I was different. How exactly I can not explain. Maybe I was just more ambitious than the rest.”

Cristiano Ronaldo 2010

The sky is never the limit. Earlier atmosphere by the direction of the Milky way, world is at the feet. On Madeira, the Portuguese island where Cristiano Ronaldo was growing up, dreams every year, hundreds of boys to the same course as their local hero, but, to date, have the trainers, there is no second instance is found with his competitiegeest, his determination, his allergy to criticism and a lot of tears. Unique character.

The unwanted little boy from a broken family - mother Dolores was considering an abortion – had an uncontrollable urge to be himself and show off his body to the executioners. Boy on a mission: to be the best footballer in the world. At the age of twelve he waved an island without a future, the great dream after 1,000 kilometres away in Lisbon. The whole family stayed behind in Madeira: “I saw the tears of my sister by the zonnebrilglazen back,” he said once.

It was his flight for the poverty, the friends, the alcohol abuse of his father and other temptations– his brother became addicted to drugs. A solitary journey in which he himself, independently of the tears and the homesickness, each and every day tried to prove in the dormitory and the training centre of Sporting. “What do you want to do in life: cry it out with your mom or play football?”, they asked him during his first months regularly. Invariably the answer was the same: “to play Football.”