A Tour Around Planet Ronaldo

“I want to conquer seven gold balls and to have seven children”.

This ambitious goal set by football player Cristiano Reinaldo, aged 32, seems megalomaniac, but it is not. The name and image of Cristiano Ronaldo, which increasingly falls under the planetary acronym CR7, are two faces of a powerful marketing machine making hundreds of millions euros relentlessly every year in assorted businesses.

The CR7 brand drags a legion of hundreds of millions of faithful and attentive followers in the social media. The name Ronaldo generates curiosity, passion and hate all over the world. First and foremost, the acronym CR7 stirs the adrenaline on the stadium stands when he dribbles opponents and scores goals. And what goals! 616 goals scored already throughout his career, most of them with a great deal of mastery, strength and stratospheric speed.

Outside the four lines, the private life of Cristiano, and of his family for the sake of it, could be the object of an appealing reality show, full of ordeals and controversy. It contains all ingredients for success: from the tax evasion accusations by the Spanish government to the alleged existence of offshore accounts, millionaire spending with cars, holiday and luxury shopping, but also discrete assistance to people in need, controversy around the life of his mother and brothers, a pint here and there of supposed sex scandals and also his children, most of them born by resorting to surrogacy via mothers whose names remain unknown. Amidst the turmoil of sensationalist news, the birth under normal circumstances of a daughter from a known mother fed pages and pages of newspapers, illustrated miles of magazine pages and made the headlights in a television news services around the world.

RONALDO DOES NOT WANT TO BE JUST “THAT MACHINE”

Ronaldo is just a dreamer, born poor in the Island of Madeira with the gift to play football, a skill he improved with a great deal of work. He deprived himself from normal kids’ games at the end of this childhood and he abstained from a number of pleasures as a teenager in order to reach the top. The planetary star – who knows and struggles every year to maintain the status of best player in the world – is known for being the first to arrive for training and the last to leave. And that’s why he often regrets the fact that he often considered just a machine: inside and outside the field.

In his private life, after some affairs, he would find in the Argentinian Georgina Rodriguez, aged 23, the stereotype of woman he was looking for. In less than a year the life of the best player in the world changed radically. And it would be ultimately with her that he chose to have a child, born recently and whom he called Alana Martina. After having conquered the world with his sports capacities, Ronaldo found humanity and became more mature and a family father. As he grows up his family becomes increasingly this star´s safe haven in bad and good moments.

For seven years, CR7 relied on the exclusive presence of Cristiano Junior in every occasion but suddenly, in less than a year, four new elements joined the family. Georgina is since September 2016 his girlfriend and whom this football player tenderly calls “Gio” or “Bebecita” (“little baby” in English). In June the clan received, directly from a surrogate mother, the twins Mateo and Eva now joined by Alana Martina, “Gio’s” baby who became famous even before she was born in the morning of November 12.

To close the cycle and to fulfil his wish Ronaldo just needs three more children to reach his personal goal of seven descendants. Focused as he is, this objective will be perfectly tangible for this 32 year old boy from Madeira.