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Cristiano Ronaldo: In my mind, I'm always the best. I don't care what people's thinking or what they say in my mind; I'm always the best. All this happened because of a reason. The reason is that I'm unbelievable inside the pitch. This is why people have so much interest in me. The numbers say everything. Hmm, the Alera Ronaldo, it's the man that's got it all. How many other men on the planet would you say he's got everything?

So i mean, you can go through the list of things that you know, i'm talking about the best footballer, the most goals played at the biggest clubs, the biggest titles, a beautiful family, everyone would want to be in there in that amount of shoes. If you're growing up as a kid and you say I want it, it'd be one of your top picks. 18-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo is wearing seven David Beckham's old shirt. He is twinkle-toothed, skilled, full of tricks, and full of magic.

He has the ability to repeat the stuff that others aren't willing to do. That's what his real talent is: the fans. They get crazy, they get mad, and they don't know how to react when they are close to him. They try to jump, they try to touch him, to have one second opportunity to be close or to sign something. manchester united Ronaldo is now the most expensive footballer in the world. He doesn't care what you think of him; he doesn't care how you feel about his success.

He will pray, and he won't apologize. He'll strut around saying I've won. you know this is me and and people are always like this maybe someone's who don't like me but because i'm maybe i'm too good for me again to the top was predominantly about work ethic mentality wanting to be the best hit and lose and always want to win which is the things that i see in him we've been better than them we played better than them so we deserve to win the league he will look you straight in the eye and he will tell you he's the best but at the same time he will be so keen to emphasize.

Just how much hard work went into him being the best he's just different he's made different built differently time he creates moments that hardly anybody else can after much speculation on a possible transfer one of the world's greatest levels Juventus deal reported 100  million pounds Yeah, I have to say yes, I was surprised. Uh, when the news first started to rumble, you think of that's probably just a rumor. The headlines in Italy on the day of his arrival were just crazy in love. He arrives was the headline of the most famous sports newspaper.

This man, this figure, the myth legend, the icon, has arrived. Oh my god, you guys like this are going to be insane. It was renowned what Juventus got when they sang Cristiano Ronaldo, the reigning Ballon d'Or holder and the best player in the world. He's 33. You go 100 million really, but he's still incredibly fit, and he looks after himself properly, effectively getting the world's biggest star. My dad is special not because I'm born there, but because all my family is there, my friends and uncles, everyone is there, and this is why it's a special island for me, Atlanta.

You can see the place today, foreign we just missed out on signing ronaldinho we were all excited and we was away thinking we're gonna get ronaldinho and he went and signed for barcelona and everyone was like a bit deflated don't get ronaldinho then we play sporting and we're in a tunnel and all of a sudden you start getting whispers they've got a kid called granada meant to be half decent a young kid meant to be really good i don't think anything of it and the game starts and then you look at each other and you're like okay he's doing mad stuff he's embarrassing a couple of our players it was a bit of a sand pit the pitch to be fair but he was dancing on it like it was a normal pitch.

I remember half time when i was going toilet i think with nikki button skulls i think it might have been and we're all standing there saying oh my god we got a sign and then the game finished and we were all sat on the the coach after waiting everyone's sitting again i've been here and now waiting an hour like let's go we've got to get to the airport barbara and then it starts to the noise starts coming traveling back through the coach that mr gill he was the ceo at the time and the manager in there and they've got cristiano and advice like lock waiting so he can't leave the stadium.

So until he signs and agrees to come to united so i think that was where the deal was agreed and then that the rest is history well the interesting thing about ronaldo is there was skepticism even before he played a game that was simply the way where you've signed a portuguese teenager, and that was this enormous tower. Now he arrived at the gorky, not very worldly wise bambi, whose skin still bore the evidence that he was pretty young, whose teeth weren't Hollywood now, just to the cameras, and every dressing room, particularly that Manchester United dressing room, is a school of hard knocks.

My office was always in the gym, so it was always available for anybody whenever they wanted to talk, because the talking and the listening are really what get you used to what they're saying, why they're saying it, and how to actually work with them. power development is basically looking at all the different things that the brain has to focus on it's listening to the player and finding out what they need in their minds that's the key the important key is that mind of the person.

It's not the body at all it's the brain it's the athlete who trains the body we've got to train the brains what you need to do with your body you know how we do that and it's not just on the physical side it's not on the mental side it's on the emotional side it's on the spiritual side i'm carrington and i'm in the chair in the gym and this young man turns up early in the morning he said i've heard about you and i know that you do a lot of work individually with a lot of the players.

He said i want to be the best player in the world 18 year old essentially sort of billed as david beckham's long-term replacement and by the end of the game had just completely eradicated that hanging specter he was he was sensational in that first game cristiano ronaldo who absolutely roasted united and a friendly recently for sporting lisbon has caused pandemonium since he came on but there was a kind of rowing back after that as there always is with young players.

And he did take a while to adapt in his first season he used to go down too early what it did particularly away from home it turned the crowd against him and the cautioned team for taking a dive no contact at all when he first signed he was about skills about entertaining about being like the guy in the crowd to entertain the crowd rather than products everyone's taught with end product and that's what he's got to deliver i mean the tricks the party pieces are all very well.

But what you've got to define is whether you want to play with them or against them as i said i have time and still the jury would bear ronaldo in the in the early years was kind of looked upon as unbelievably talented but a little bit of a show pony at times and he used to do the obviously massive amount of step overs ronaldo sometimes it's one step over too many crossed the ball there's only so many stepovers you can do someone like rude vanessa were the top gold squad at the club's waiting for the ball to be crossed in the box.

If you want to affect the game and be deemed a superstar. You've got to cross the ball and he got kicked every single day because of his skill because of the fact that he liked to commit 1v1 because of his the style in which he played the defenders would kick him every single day and every time he got kicked he never mowed the best and the biggest learning curves i think he he got from his teammates just say i enjoy game.

I dribble very well i enjoy it right guys when you're ready christiana are you feeling more and more confident with each game nice thing are you confident sorry gary he's looking confident anyway gary there he is confident he's a yeah you're on the match well done you goal his first season he was good the second season he was beginning to score goals win matches playing all the biggest games win trophies and this was his moment it was his moment in his home country it was this moment when the whole world was watching.

I always thought that that's the arena that's the moment that he craved for and dreamt of all his life you have to remember that even before that tournament everyone's talking about wayne rooney ronaldo was another very promising footballer he was during that tournament he really emerged as this phenomenon and by the time you got to the final you realize that there was something astonishing in this portugal team and a really grand talent everyone calls me lucy.

But my name's lucia roberta tough bronze My mom's obviously English, and my dad's fully Portuguese. Born and raised there, I had the full Portuguese kit and green shorts. the socks everything i'd be out on the streets playing rolling for Ronaldo and for the country and then it was that underdog story which i think anybody who didn't have an association with Portugal probably absolutely loved it all eyes now will be on marcus win the thing the biggest and best players in any industry when you when you don't win or you don't get something over the line.

Then it's time for to reflect and analyze and then go back to the drawing board and i think that's what he 100 done he came back with a different focus and he weren't going to be derailed by one failure It's crazy because we used to pay tables and it's quite a lot, and if I won, I knew he wouldn't want to stop; he'd want to go again, but you get some people who, when they lose, shy away, think that's enough for me, and don't really come back, so you see a lot of traits in someone in little, little instances like that, and he's not someone who gives up foreign.

Cristiano Ronaldo has plenty of red shirts going forward. Cristiano came in and quickly embedded himself in the DNA of the club. He had experienced players around him who knew how to win, and I think he took all that on board. By the time the 2006 World Cup came around, Ronaldo was an establishedWorld Cup came around, Ronaldo was an established world star. We knew how good he was, but he hadn't quite moved yet to that higher plane, and that would come in the tournament, and just after it.

It was the England side we expected to do well. Ronaldo's teammates in England had some injuries, but Ronaldo would be playing up front on his own, and he was still the golden child. He was still considered the most talented and most promising young player in Europe; he was probably ahead of Ronaldo at that point, and you had a feeling even on the day of the match that something was going to happen here and that this game was going to be played out between these two personalities.

Look at rooney there battling away pushing rooney and he's in trouble and ronaldo straight away was chirping at the referee to do something i think it's ricardo cavallio who's down it is and the referee has gone to his pocket he's set rooney off it's a straight red john the only thing he could set him up for is standing on carvalho england will be down to 10 men does he just wait there i think there's every chance that winning rooney could go back to the man united training ground and stick one on no i still have the same feeling.

I mean i was i was pretty angry at the time so i can imagine how wayne rooney felt it's impossible to know who he was winking or what he's actually saying but of course it was taken and england despite heroics are out of the world cup when he came back to england he was a villain he was a cheat he'd ruined england's chances i was upset with the descending off because i didn't see ryan's interns and that's just the truth but i saw many players trying to get him sent off for weeks to come.

It was everyone was against ronaldo and he kind of built a lot of bridges in england i suppose that's not right first of the lips i don't like that either i think everyone hates him no no hang out absolutely a bit of a win completely he's gonna get so much attitude when he gets back to england I don't think Manchester United's now-customary booze greets the first touch of the ball. Cristiano Ronaldo is winking at your teammate, seeing your manager, or whoever it was he was winking at, which is actually a big deal. No, not really, but because the taste of defeat is so sour and so bitter that the English fans lash down booze every time he picks up the ball, England is the song on the lips of the Charlton fans. Maybe people misunderstand his attitude toward the game. He loves playing; he's a tough player. Alex and his helpers decided that the only way that they could keep Ronaldo was to, I think, tell him his salvation was here. There's no doubt. Alex Ferguson took on the paternal role with Ronaldo to a really extreme degree. In some ways, he always looks after his players. He understands that that's partly his role, but more importantly, that's the best way to get the most out of these young men who are in his charge. ronaldo Kim's a young, skinny kid at 17. and he had all these things about him; they were used to criticizing everybody's diving and all the rest, but you know, once the players got to know him on the training ground tonight, he was fantastic, and then the most important thing for a great player is decision-making; he was tough. Ronaldo could play for the Millwall Queen Spark Rangers. caster rovers score hatchery in the game, I'm not sure Messi could do it. skulls corner Ronaldo's instant impact So, Alex Ferguson Citizen, we're building a team now around the likes of myself, Wayne Rooney, and Cristiano Ronaldo. Now it's Cristiano Ronaldo Sahar waiting inside the area. Ronaldo goes alone, and Ronaldo wins the match for Manchester United. After 87 minutes, it all came together. Manchester United are the Barclays Premiership Champions of 2006–07. That was the beginning of a new era. Cristiano Ronaldo's double footballer of the year puts Manchester United within touching distance of the title. His style was about attacking, going at people, and that fast movement. You know, it's all about speed and reaction, but the most important thing for him is that he's going to score a goal, and that's got to be the thing because this is the most important thing in football. Scoring a goal is the most important thing. No matter what anybody says about anything you need to win, there is only one way to win. score a goal, so that's always on his mind. Score goals, score goals, go score goals. Darren Fletcher has joined the Stoke Wall as Ronaldo shoots and scores like most young kids. I've probably tried to hit a couple free kicks like him. Here he comes. Oh, it's two, and it's absolutely magnificent. I tried to base my free kick on Ronaldo hitting the ball by the valve, and it moves. So, what do you do? Oh yeah, I don't hear that noise that's squeaking. Yeah, this was. I think I was probably about 14. I'm a big Portsmouth fan, so when he scored that free kick at Old Trafford against Portsmouth, I was there, so I think I took a lot of motivation from that and wanted to kind of replicate what he does, and yeah, this was not quite Ronaldo, but it was close. The most important thing about Cristiano Ronaldo that people don't often realize is how much time he spent on his own working on his skills. carrington was a an ill at the back just away from the training ground and he used to go behind the hill and do his training on his own and i asked him about that one time you know and he said well you know there's nobody there so i don't have to worry if i do a skill wrong or anything i can practice it nobody's watching me so you're not worried you know so we practice everything you know for a few days or whatever and then he go and take it into training every friday especially before the game on the saturday be probably the one eight times out of ten be the one to score the winner in training finished the game on a ronaldo goal next goal wins it and he'd invariably get the goal we felt we had the best players we felt we had the best team for a couple of years but you need to do it in champions league to be cemented as a top a great team it was only giggsy and scolds you played in that game that had been part of the 99 team and so all of us others it was almost like a shadow i don't think we've seen too many transformations like with ronaldo he was a teenage sensation yes he was did any of us really foresee at that point that the levels of greatness that he would achieve probably not his time in manchester united was his was his apprenticeship in many ways bravo uh christiano grand family people said to me how did you get that skinny kid you know into that big muscle muscle guy in six months it took five and a half years that we worked together for him to produce what he wanted to produce it takes time eleven times champions i spoke to him a lot about staying and he was like i've dreamed about playing for real madrid i've done everything here i've had a great time i love this club i loved my united always be part of me but it's a new chapter now when you left manchester united for real madrid you'd have seen something completely different it was pretty clear immediately that irrespective of being the most stark problem in the world the most successful club in the world this was going to be the biggest media event in their entire history we're going to dominate the rolling news all over the 000 world in the bernabeu stadium and to be honest ronaldo in the stadium looking up and around what struck you was the number of different nationalities there were people from africa there were people from all over asia it was a snapshot of precisely what real madrid wanted to achieve then and going forward in marketing terms here's the best of the work more than messi More than kaka and more than anyone, uno dos, it's a massive move when you go to one of the giants in Spain. There's a difference when you go there, and the expectancy levels are enormous, particularly for the big stars. People who go to football matches are from the middle class. The people that go to the opera are all members; you know, they don't go there for a sing-song and an atmosphere and a few beers; they go there to watch football, and you have to entertain them. The great players love it. One of the ways in which special can become great is by timing this arriving era of social media games that bore players images and names, and we're in every living room around the civilized world when that spark became a fire because Ronaldo was good-looking, Hollywood-style, brilliant at his sport, but also cosmopolitan and aspirational, and when those two forces meet head-on, the explosion is positive. There has been a massive cultural change. It used to be that your family was associated with a club; they supported a club, and you supported the same team. Now, what happens is that with the growth of social media and gaming and the whole digital landscape booming, people's loyalties are now with the players. Ronaldo and Messi were both born into a world and a time in their careers when the social media landscape was quickly changing. In particular, we saw the likes of Facebook popping up, followed by Twitter. Someone who may live in the Philippines wouldn't necessarily be able to go watch him in a match, but they can reenact and become him through a game. Younger football fans now have this access that's almost unfiltered and can be 24 hours a day. He's constantly there, constantly kind of leading that evolution of how they interact with their favorite players. We will have a penalty shootout for a place in the final of Euro 2012. Portugal versus Spain semifinals of the European Championship penalty shootout massive rivals doesn't get much bigger than that Bruno Alves for Portugal. oh and he's hit the ball ronaldo might not even get to take one penalty shootouts are horrendous in many ways fabregas can do it for spain and does just it's fabregas and cristiano ronaldo never even got the chat to get the winning one that's what he wants that's the nature of the man the heartbeat of everything that he does is is about the team and he knows that something that comes hand in hand with that if he does produce the goods he's the personal one of us and he's not ashamed of saying that he's not ashamed in wanting to win the ballon d'or and tell people and let them understand that yeah i want to win it and if i don't i'm not happy what's not to like about that if you look back now at 2012 he was at the club that he'd yearned to play for he was already their dominant footballer yet he was suffering Barcelona was winning all the popularity contests. lionel messi was winning all the ball on doors, and then when the wafer player of the year award went to Anders Iniesta, he looked as if he were chewing a wasp. He patently didn't agree, and he didn't give up. Who knew about it now? What's the difference? Last season, just this year we won. This is the difference, and because we've been better than them, we played better than them, so we deserve to win the league. Messi is more concerned with creation, beauty, and the enjoyment of the game, whereas Ronaldo is primarily a goal scorer. There'd be a guy with a white hat that would be messy, of course, and there'd be somebody who rustles cattle and is going to get shot down in the final scene. The black cat that would be Cristiano feeds off negativity. You can give him all the positives in it, but you'll find that one negative comment that's probably put on the door of the hotel room that you're staying in, and that's what's used as fuel. what really stood out for me when i first started work with him was he would do a lot of the stuff that other players will play other players at high level were just not willing to do he would make incredible sacrifices that a lot of others just didn't have the time for i saw the work that that boy put in from the minute he woke up go in the gym do his call go out onto the training ground early do his tricks everything was geared for him to becoming the best player in the world not part of the part to score 69 goals you know in a calendar year 2013 is is just phenomenal when i was playing or certainly when i started if you got one and two then you were a brilliant player and that's what all forwards um tried to do but his numbers are crazy left foot right for outside the box inside the box with his head goals where you just think how how has he even got that strike away just a phenomenal goal scoring machine missy was best before but now he's ronaldo time the cumulus of the off the pitch marketing and his on pitch exploits gave him that 2013 ballon d'or thank you  madrid winning le decima is one of the great stories of football looking out the tunnel and i can see the champions league trophies is sitting on the podium and when i got that view it it took my breath away and i actually physically went took a deep breath like that and cristiano had obviously heard that and he just turned and looked over his shoulder and went paul don't worry 93 minutes just show how close it was to going the other way people are celebrating in the dressing room the trophy's getting passed around champagne's popping people are drinking beers like the atmosphere is just just incredible and then i saw a small group of players marcelo pepe and cristiano i had to ask you know cristiano what are you talking about and he said we're talking about next year we have to go and win it again and i just thought wow oh foreign was ronaldo's father died in 2005 uh when ronaldo was still just 20. He'd suffered from alcoholism for quite a while, and he suffered from liver failure. She didn't just show him love, protect him, and give him the freedom to move to Lisbon at age 12. She demonstrated to him that survival, thriving, and being the best version of yourself are relentless morning, noon, and night. My dream is always to have a son young, so I have Cristiano, so I'm so proud of that family. When people ask me the question if Christianity changed my life, of course, because you know it's another member of the family, it's something coming from your blood. I'm so happy in another way. I'm happy because you see his daddy still play football, still win things, still fit, still good. It was a moment where you kind of felt Ronaldo's not just conducting his teammates; he's conducting everybody watching this. cristiano ronaldo having on previous occasions held himself back to take what could be the decisive winning penalty has put himself forward here to try and put his side on the road to victory by putting the first one in ronaldo was needed where he had to step forward deafening whistles in his ears didn't trouble ronaldo slamming the ball home i suppose the question in the group stage was um is this functional leadership is this going to work out is ronaldo playing out some kind of personal psycho drama here which is going to have a negative effect on his team and he just about trods the right side of that line all the way through a jump that was from cr7 it will be portugal in paris on sunday maybe this is there and their crown prince Cristiano's Year: Foreign Everyone thinking we already lost the game echoes of 1998 France in the final at the start to France facing a team of Portuguese speakers whose star is Ronaldo one of the key themes about cristiano ronaldo is that he's always thought that he can't be beaten  the biggest criticism of him is for these sort of moments when the drama takes over he was on the pitch then he was off the pitch ronaldo's gone down he's coming off and there aren't going to be tears this was his stage this is not how it was supposed to end in france this summer for cristiano ronaldo with him it's always you know it's about him he was shouting to every name he was coordinating the players he was telling giving some information i think almost everyone felt his presence on the touchline even during the game there must have been 500 cuts to ronaldo on the bench it was almost like he was the star player even though he wasn't performing he wants to be outright the best and he knows if he wins the euros with his national team as messi won anything with with argentina so it puts him it's another feather in his cape all set up to win that game it was france's final it was their tournament but there was another force acting on on that team that went beyond being the host nation how excited cristiano ronaldo is over the years might have thought he was pretty selfish in terms of him the goals that he scored the desire that he had but i think when you look at him in that final the way he was trying to drive his his team his country forward from the touchline i think that told you everything how much he wanted to win foreign best players can evolve and change their game to suit them where they are at a certain point in their career  he's obviously not going to be as quick as an explosive as he was when he was 21 22 23 so he's playing the game to be as effective as he can in the right areas of the pitch juventus had on a sporting level achieved magnificent success they had built a team that had reached two champions league finals yet there was a lot of criticism aimed at juventus for not having managed to capture the american market the the asian market in much of the way that say milan did what they needed was the global money maker a way of being recognized around the world obviously quite a large part of their motivation was that this would be a great commercial signing be great for the club's name for the club's brand unfortunately this was almost immediately challenged in ronaldo's first season at juventus News broke that Las Vegas police had reopened an investigation into an allegation by a woman called Catherine Mayorga, an American woman who had alleged that Ronaldo had raped her in 2009. Catherine Mayorga gave an interview in 2018 with the German magazine De Chigo about her own encounter with Ronaldo and the fact that she decided to go public in the wake of the metoo allegations and the slightly changed environment around these kinds of stories. Mayorga had reportedly reached an out-of-court settlement with Ronaldo in 2010. There was a criminal investigation in 2018, but no proceedings were taken as there was insufficient evidence to go any further. Ronaldo has always maintained his innocence, but he has accepted the existence of the out-of-court settlement. He then put out a tweet that stated a complete denial of the allegations. Mariah Ronaldo's head first into anything that's going to make him a better player in modern-day football. He's changed massively because he's probably been the top player that's really delved into sport science and prolonging his career. Yeah, listen, I think he's part of a group of sportspeople of our generation who are playing well into their 30s at the top level still. Serena Williams Roger Federer Nadal Lebron Messi obviously tom brady they make sacrifices that others don't and they have that obsession that lives and breathes inside of him that is just that the numbers that that he's managed to to put on the board and mind blown you know to go past pele but to do it in you know european football it's just incredible individual accolades team awards trophies his goal scoring record you have to say that he's at genius level as a footballer he's probably the greatest footballer that ever lived what a jump that was from cr7 when i speak to christiano even now and you just you listen to him speak and there's a little bit of anger in there even still that helps him get out on the pitch and produce the moments that he's still producing you don't need it but you will find something that swishes that switch the lights that fire to go out again.