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cristiano ronaldo is so powerful his skills is a bit different this is i have a guy who scores 30 goals a season it's a major factor in your season the way that he's known everywhere across the world it's huge i've seen it with my own eyes he's probably the most famous footballer on the planet that's right cristiano ronaldo has plenty of star power both on and off the pitch over the next half hour you'll find out everything you ever wanted to know about a player who at club level has won it all ahead on the

show from childhood to fatherhood we chart the early rise of the man from madeira and find out what cristiano the father is really like honestly how many uh diapers did you change not i change a few ones i prefer to do other things sure you do and we put him on the spot in our quick fire challenge last time you cried when you think ronaldo you think flair and he's been flaunting it since showing up on the scene as a teenager at sporting lisbon those tricks and flicks along with a spectacular performance in a friendly

against manchester united earned him a 20 million dollar move to old trafford from day one ronaldo worked day and night to improve his game the thing was ronnie is uh when i met him he said like i want to be the best player in the world and probably a lot of players say that he's someone who really worked on it ronaldo played a key role in the united team that won the 2008 uefa champions league his goals and performances that season earned him plenty of individual accolades he was crowned fifa world player of the year

and picked up the ballon d'or as well by then cristiano had reached superstar status and after six years and ten trophies in manchester it was time for a new challenge queue a world record 131 million dollar move to spanish giants real madrid of course it's a great challenge now and other people know my dream is to play in madrid ronaldo's move to spain transformed him into a goal scoring machine he netted 33 in his first season 54 in his second and 60 in his third according to his current coach jose mourinho a large part of

his success comes down to his work ethic and love for football he loves the game he loves to train i had in my career so many players in love with with the game and i cannot say nobody more than than christiano mourinho is not the only portuguese football icon who praises ronaldo even though he has never won any titles with his national team great professional always want to win and like a person is a nice guy maybe if you don't know him if you just watch him in the television probably you or love him or

you you're hating hate is a strong word but there are certainly those who dislike cristiano his distant and sometimes petulant attitude on the pitch has led many to believe he is arrogant and conceited people in general think that he's arrogant that he believes he's the the best and the most beautiful one in the world even some real fans in madrid find it hard to like ronaldo as a person as a person i think a bit arrogant he is conceited yes i think he is too serious and should open up to people he's still arrogant but

then if you're the world's greatest player why wouldn't you be so plenty to talk about as i sat down with a man himself we started our chat by analyzing his performance over the past year just how good was your year 2012 was it the best of your career so far maybe yes and you know the the numbers speak for itself we're approaching the end of the year and that means the the ballon d'or is around the corner be honest with me how much do you want to win it a lot this is mean a lot

for me so if you were someone voting and someone would ask you why are you going to pick cristiano ronaldo and let's say why are you going to pick ronaldo instead of messi what would you say well i will i will put everything in in one bag and to to see what they done by the year if you speak about me and leo who win more things who play better uh win the most important trophies so i cannot say i deserve to win but i think i mean i'm in good position i i spoke with

some with with some journalists who who voted for the last award where i was presenting uh in monaco the european footballer of the year and some of them may have voted for messi because they like messi more than they like you not the football but the image do you think sometimes you're a victim of that i don't want to cry about that but sometimes i think yes why it's a question that i never give 100 the right answer because sometimes i really don't know maybe sometimes i agree maybe i have bad image in a pitch

because i'm too serious i take serious but if you really know me if you are my friend if you live inside to my house if you share the day with me you will know that i hate to lost against my girlfriend sometimes we we are yesterday in the pool and we do at a race in a pool and i win because i don't like to lost it's simple than that so when they say you're arrogant for example what what does that make you feel the people who call me arrogant most of them i like you

know one day to sit with them and to have a you know a chat with them to see which way they see that i am arrogant because they i think they have to to sit with me to speak with me to know who is real cristiano so who is the real christian well i will describe myself like i'm a friend of who is my friend i hate to lose i'm honest i'm the direct person so do you think you pay the price for being too honest then yeah sometimes yes definitely yes but is this part

of my education you won the copa del rey now you've won the league next has to be the champions league how much pressure is there on the team and how much pressure do you feel to win the 10th it's a lot of pressure here in real madrid we always in in pressure so last year we we arrived very close but we we lost in the penalties and uh but i think it's it's possible we have the best coach in the world we have the best players in the club so we have to thinking that this

that it's will be possible i know i hope uh we become like this here so you think jose is the best coach in the world and how would you describe your relationship with him well my relationship with him is perfect i'm sure 100 200 that is the best coach because you deserve you show every country which is the best because you win all the leagues you know i spoke with him recently and he told me that sometimes he wishes he could turn off a switch and that no one would would recognize him that he could

have a normal life do you understand why he says that of course i know you ever feel like that yourself yeah of course i not just now the last five six years is part of your work your success so the people um know you and everywhere so sometimes i wish to go somewhere to the shopping uh mcdonald's not great the example but to the coffee and the people don't recognize me but you know we are famous and we have to deal with that so you do wish sometimes that you could get up and no one

would recognize you yes i wish i pay for that if it's possible really yes i will pay are you offering now like a very good yeah family comes first for ronaldo especially now he's a dad coming up the famous footballer took's fatherhood to wake up in the morning to see him and to say daddy daddy it's great i love it wow welcome back there's no doubt about it cristiano ronaldo is much more than just a player he's an icon a brand if you like and quite a popular one here at the real madrid club shop

but how much do people really know about christiano the person let's take a closer look at the man from madaira cristiano ronaldo was born in the island of madeira on the 5th of february 1985. he was the youngest of four children and soon stood out when it came to playing football at just 12 years of age cristiano made his first big move the gifted youngster flew to lisbon to join sporting's famed academy after being spotted by the club's scouts it was challenging for him coming to lisbon alone the coaches who received him they realized immediately

that there was something different over there and of the process cristiano was all the time a very focused boy ronaldo made his sporting senior debut at 17 but less than a year later he was on the move again manchester united came calling his life changed on and off the pitch luckily he had a manager alex ferguson who nurtured him as a player and the person he's lucky in the sense that with people here that can tell him the truth and be straight with him and he appreciates that fortunately ronaldo is good human qualities he's a

good guy and he knows he knows the time of day having ferguson by his side helped cristiano deal with the death of his father in 2005. the loss of his dad due to an alcoholism-related liver condition deeply affected him ronaldo grew homesick and that's why he backed a move closer to his native portugal the transfer to real madrid in 2009 was just what he needed most people at the club took to him right away he generally is a very happy go lucky character he's a real ball of energy when it comes to being with his

friends it was shortly after moving to madrid that ronaldo became a father he got full custody of christiano jr the baby who was born as a result of an affair he had with a girl in the united states right now he has another girlfriend russian supermodel irina shike as i spoke with cristiano in madrid it seemed he juggled life as a star a footballer and a father just fine thanks in large part as he told me to the continuing influence of his mother i'm going to show you some pictures from your life important moments and

i want your your reaction to them and we have to start with someone who i imagine is probably the most important person in your life your mother uh my mother is my best friend i know yours is very close when you look at this picture what comes to your mind the person who is the of course the most important for me in my life will give me everything that i have my education and all the opportunities that i have in my life she she give me and she always in my sight in a good moments

and bad moments when you were a kid and you were growing up and you were playing on the street did she know you could be who you are today no but she always you know she she never closed the doors she have she always give me opportunity you know to follow my dream you get to manchester united and you work with this man for several years what does sir alex ferguson mean to you well he's a fantastic person he's a woman person you know he teach me many things he's like uh like i said before

he's like a father for me in a football because he teach me many things you know and uh i really miss him because you know i have a great relationship with him how mean can he get how tough can he get in the driver very tough i think sometimes he's he cannot cannot be like that he's not good for his heart but he's still tough strong i remember him like and this the the first day that i saw him it's always with the same power it's unbelievable how much longer do you think you can go

100 easily because it's so strong this is a special moment when you won the fifa world player of the year award did you think about your father when you won it yes about my father my my family my sisters my my mom because you know when you win something big you always is coming always in your mind and the most important people in my life this is a picture of your mother your son and more people close to your girlfriend as well at the santiago bernabeu and i have to ask you about being a father

how is christiano the father i think i'm not i'm not bad i i still i still learn but i think it's it's the the best things in life is to to have a kid and how old does he know too and i think it's uh it's like i live like a dream you know to wake up in the morning and to to see him and to say daddy daddy it's it's great i love it how involved do you get tell me how honestly how many uh diapers did you change not i changed a few ones

but it's not i've never changed one how would you how would you describe it it's not my real challenge to change diapers and i to be honest i don't like a lot but uh i change a few ones i think it's normal i prefer to do other things i'm sure you do yeah like what what do you like doing i have to give him a shower for example it's much easier to put shampoo conditioner in his head i think it's my it's much easier it's more fun mentioned your girlfriend here she is you're someone who's

always in the media attention she is as well how is it to have a girlfriend that is also quite famous well it's part of the the business you know part of the work we are almost three years together and you know um and i love to be with there i love her so it's great i know we we are both famous but you know this is this is part i did i didn't look for that this is coming natural so it's fantastic i'm sure you have a lot of of uh girls around the world who

would like to be with cristiano ronaldo is it is it difficult to pick just one you know i'm do you see yourself getting married not now but of course in the future yes uh everyone won that yeah i still haven't done it i don't have the courage i don't know you don't have the courage i don't have yet but you know in the future we never know finally someone who's always linked with you leo messi what's your relationship with him normal professional relationship i never had problems with him it's it's always speak with me in

a good way and me too so we have good relationship and i respect him a lot and for sure you respect me a lot too so we are professionals and uh he does his best for his clubs and i do the best things for my club too leo and cristiano have both been scoring goals for fun in spain does that mean ronaldo prefers la liga to the premier league i try to find out both really not going to give me an answer one or the other from an early age cristiano ronaldo has had to deal

with life in the media spotlight he's had questions about every aspect of his career fired in his direction but how would he fare in our quick fire challenge let's have some fun your favorite goal ever wow favorite goal quite a few of them yes i remember the one you scored against port from like 50 40 meters now no one of your free kicks like bullets bracket they call it rockets like the tomahawk they used to call it in manchester united against rome for example but i scared with the head i remember that your best moment

in football yes in football when i went win i have a few two when i win the champ the first the champions league when i let's pick that okay okay one answer okay when you win the champions league okay okay lowest moment when i lost a 2004 final against greece national team i was there it hurt me a lot it hurt me a lot i can't imagine how much it and we should have won and i said because i'm portuguese like you la liga or english premier league putting you on the spot here both really

yeah really you're not gonna give me an answer one or the other i have to say one i mean i'm not going to force you to say no i say both but if you want one okay la liga okay if you were a fifa president what would you change in football one rule or one rule uh like in a rugby that they use that things if they say fist point or not when the ball go in you mean the the instant replay yes you would add instant replay yeah who's your favorite sports person i like

it how you're really thinking about these things not jordan tiger roots tyson last time you cried last time i cried have you cried since the byron game i know you cried in the bible was that the last time yeah yes after your career ends you're still thinking after your career ends manager media movies which one movies you like to be an actor yeah have you tried no not not yet blondes or brunettes my girlfriend so brunette i guess yeah and obviously obviously ronaldo or messi now of course i will say myself normal thanks for playing

the game pleasure thank you good luck thank you my friends so as you can see from something as simple as a quick fire challenge cristiano is someone who speaks honestly about topics both on and off the pitch maybe sometimes i agree maybe i have bad image in a pitch overall i found him to be engaging and good fun i do admit i was surprised to hear that much like his coach jose mourinho he struggled with his fame so you do wish sometimes that you could get up and no one would recognize you yes i wish

i pay for that if it's possible well he can't buy anonymity and chances are he'll never have it at least while he continues to mesmerize us with his skills when it comes to his character he divides opinion but having known cristiano for nearly 10 years i can tell you he's always treated me with the utmost respect those are my thoughts but as always we'd love to get your opinion on the show so please tweet me at pedro cnn that's a wrap for cristiano ronaldo all access