Ronaldo’s rivalry with Messi and extraordinary self-regard are to the fore in this vanity project but the suffering his success has brought his mother and the forward’s sheer competitive drive also catch the eyeAs a snapshot of what life must be like for Cristiano Ronaldo,there is one clip in the novel film Ronaldo when his godson is being baptised and there is a small gathering around the font. The baby’s head has just been wet when the priest looks over to the tanned guy with the gelled hair and whips out a mobile phone. “Any chance of a quick selfie? he wants to know.Then there is the moment Portugal’s team are training at Estádio Moisés Lucarelli in São Paulo during the final World Cup and a sobbing girl breaks the cordon to hasten across the pitch in a desperate attempt to reach her hero. She is shaking, crying, or close to hysteria and caught by one of the security guards. It is The Beatles at Shea Stadium all over again. Ronaldo hugs her and she looks as whether she might pass out. “He knows I exist,” she wails, when a television reporter stops her a few moments later. What did he say? “He asked me to stay calm and stop crying.” And what did you say back? “I asked him to follow me on Twitter.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com