[Music] I'm here on the bustling streets of Turin in Italy and I'm here to be somebody who grew up in poverty in Portugal but who has become a global icon somebody worth half a billion dollars and somebody who is widely reputed to be one of the greatest athletes in sporting history that person is Cristiano Ronaldo and right now this football hero is also the biggest star on planet earth he's a private man my job tonight when I meet him is to UM peel the layers of that privacy and get to the real Cristiano Ronaldo it
would turn out to be an extraordinary encounter however Grave close friends family but what trust under percent maybe four persons Wow Maci's offenders fantastic guys fantastic player is he the best you've played against and you know in your life how open the heart for her she opened art for me probably the the greatest love of your life exactly this is what I wanna say 2018 probably was the most difficult year of my life in terms of outside football sorry what's the sadness for you to be the number one Evan don't say nothing he never saw
how great you [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'd come to a launch event for an aldose latest business venture a perfume of the catchy title play it cool Ronaldo is one of the world's most marketable athletes when he joined Juventus last year he sold half a million football shirts in a day worth almost a staggering fifty million pounds thank you for coming thank you everyone present [Applause] I'd be nation' up to this rooftop for now though I'm told is about to come through that gate at any moment now I'm trying to play cool Kristiana how are you
good good as they all good to meet you nice to meet you nice to meet okay all perfect your total right I think so yeah thank you maybe your speaks disappointing six one what are you six to Annoying already you have me please let's go down I'd been promised an hour at the great man and I need to find out exactly what makes him tick you nervous not sure I don't percent what do you hope to achieve from this interview good question to speak about myself you know I'm not gonna hiding nothing I'm not pretend
to be another person you're a brilliant footballer you're obviously very famous but it means to grab is a currency of thing you're number one by miles you have a hundred and eighty two million followers ariana grande is second with a hundred and sixty four million Kim Kardashian Kylie Jenner Beyonce Leonor Messi only has 130 million David Beckham Oney has 58 million if three times as big as David Beckham when you hear that kind of you're weird isn't it to be honest for me don't surprise me I know what I am all my life what I
did and what I do it's because I have passion for example 75 percent of my life is football and the rest is you know my family and friends of you like you like being number one Dhoni Christiana yes of course I mean you don't want to be number two D if I stay here and say you're the second most followed person if I will be the third before for me it doesn't matter in my job yes yes in my job yes I want to be the number one Fame is a very double-edged sword isn't it
you know I know the part of you I can tell loves the attention the adulation the fame being Cristiano Ronaldo must be for a lot of the time incredible but there must be a lot of times as well when it's completely suffocating you know you can't really go out and cheer him because the moment you do there are thousands of people what's it like the reality of being you good and bad peers to be honest is boring you have a part that it's fantastic that you're famous you are fantastic player you win trophies you score
goals you are in the first page of the paper in television but after ten years you know you have to you look the life in a different way yeah girlfriend you have kids you want some privacy the last 10 years my privacy is gone I'm not gonna cry but if you ask me I'm one year enough here you know many times I'll go to the parking with my kids you know tell me zero not once no one's because you can't if I go you will come like 20 people the kids will be like nervous I
will be nervous my Goffin will be nervous and when you are a public places it's hard you know you have to maintain a little bit posture if you put the finger in and all they're gonna take pictures it cannot be yourself which is boring you know but what I'm gonna do is it's too late to change and you have to adapt what you are your great friend Ricardo said to me a great story they are New Year's Eve in 2009 you decided to go out to a club and he showed us the picture you weren't
in disguise it was new even and I spoke with Rica say Ricky you have to do it something say we have to go down at discotheque it's it's you even you could not stay in home and I said yeah but we have to find some way to go let's put a wig and mustache a jacket something and we buy a week with the natural hair a fantastic better than my hair and we go out in a one hotel in a centre of Madrid like in the rooftop was a bar discotheque we go in the lift
everyone look at us the is that guys they look like rock stars and we went to the to the rooftop and Ricky we're gonna speak only in English because nobody gonna know who we are and the time that we went to the bar I speak Portuguese with Ricky I say Ricky what you want a drink the only the only time that we speak Portuguese and one guy behind me they say Cristiano I know it's really I say no way this is not possible I don't react inside of it I feel like so bad I feel
like irritated during the night that guy he told everyone and it this could take listen that guy is Christiano and I feel because I'm a tall guy that everyone in a discotheque they look at me like but nobody knows that is me and we maintained the night we stayed there like two three hours we go sleep it was one of the best nights ever had cuz you were free again yes I feel free I get that see it's interesting isn't it the great joy you have with the freedom and yet for the rest of the
time it's like being in a cage right for you a little bit yes I can say is a little bit because you cannot be yourself under presents how many people in the world do you completely trust completely completely under percent hundred percent I'm not gonna say names because I think it's not fair but I will say four persons for yes and represent trusts for persons Wow but I have a very close friends family but what trust and the percent maybe for persons under percent how do you feel about that number is that enough fee tommy's
enough I really don't taking too much about it but it's the way relieved it's that the life it's like that you you know you have to to know that now just to state the obvious Ronaldo is pretty good at four so girl in fact he currently holds a ridiculous 145 footballing records most Champions League goals most goals in all European competitions the first player to score in every minute of a game it's a very very long list I think you're the best football player that's ever lived I think do you think there's a raging debate
as you know a lot of people think Messi a lot of people think you a few others think other players but for too honest is yes my honest thing is only going element that modesty yes why it's it's it's beautiful because you appreciate my job what I my passion well I'll what I like to do and when you you listen kind of know people for example like you it's nice make me feel proud he means that you are you are good you are talent you are the number one do you think what makes you different
to the others to the next rung on the ladder if you like a very good players is the dedication level that you put in I think I'm good but I think my men strength its my mind I think it's my strongest point it's my mind piece the numbers they don't like if you see during the last 15 years mum my level is always kind of the same so ever dedication work hard because the talent is not enough anymore and if you not dedicated under percents you're not gonna reach the level that you want for example
you arrive home you have the lunch you do it a quick nap and you wake up you play with your keys well and I have to do have to go to the gym at least 3040 minutes but this will make the difference in the end of the day you understand if you do not do that that work you miss one the next day if you it's two sessions as you lost and I know in the end of the day in the hand they're gonna make huge for us this is why I'm 34 and I look
28 yeah I'm 54 I look 67 I'm also happy how different all those physical appearance is making you jealous his lifestyle might just tip you over the edge how many began tees to Ferrari Ferrari to McLaren to Rose you came into roles today - yeah - to you are apparently worth half a billion dollars true I don't know maybe I hope so that's 500 million dollars this is where you saw that that's what I was my sources tell me I I don't think so it's too much what would you say 300 million great you know
you know how much you're worth penny you struck me as a kind of garden but know that kind of thing no time 2% but you know what I can say I have ever good money in a bank yeah maybe I shouldn't don't say that but it's true the truth is the truth it's it's the same woman it calls you and I'm not gonna say to the I have two cars I have twenties how many of you I cannot hide it some some things how many bigger 20s maybe 17 I don't know 17 cars yeah and
they you go to how many big auntie's to Ferrari Ferrari to McLaren to Rose you came into roles today - yeah - two - three - - which ones you like driving modes Rolls Royce they're all yes so why won't you get a comfortable yeah yes more comfortable and I like it not hurts my back says he's perfect but a fleet of luxury cars and hundreds of millions in the bank is a world away from Renaldo's childhood he grew up on the impoverished island of Madeira the youngest of four children his father was an alcoholic
and his mother words as a cleaner and cook to keep the family clothed and fed at the age of 12 renowned a left family home and moved to the capital where he was signed by Sporting Lisbon he was given bed and board but none of the riches that he enjoys today I was surprised about this but when you were a kid Sporting Lisbon you and your other little players may Academy there you would go around the back of this local McDonald's and a lady called Edna yeah would give you the cast-off burgers at the end
of the night and you'd all take them and tell me about that what what was that about what happened to Edna did you ever find her again you know when I was kids at 11 12 years olds we don't have money and we live with the in the same place that they are the place to the younger places because I live in Madeira and I look my family tree in three months was hard so very hard periods without the family and later night like 10:30 11:00 we are a little bit hungry so we had a
McDonald's next to the to the stadium where we live and we always go to the to the back door and we knock the door hey Annie Varughese left and Edna and two more girls which they are unbelievable I I never find the girls again i I speak with some people in Portugal to try to find where is the girls because I don't find and they stay they close that McDonald's but I hope if this interview will helps to find that girls will be so happy because you know I want to invite us to come to
Turin or Lisbon to come my house there the dinner with me and I want to find these girls to be honest I want to give something back because that parody was a parrot that I was appreciate so much it's uh it's something that you never I never forgot that model thing but it meant so much T although you're on your own I don't imagine how much you not had burgers in the night no no you're talking to the right guy I know how much a Big Mac community you're talking to a man who's eaten a
lot of Big Macs I like Kraven so I get it I get it and this is where you and I are such a similar routine and two great athletes every Sunday gonna get a Big Mac but yeah I can see you have good abdominal thank you very much crystianna thank you appreciating something gets a bit lost on me thank you appreciate you looking gives yourself scrounging burgers is not something Renaldo's for children will ever have to try ronaldo named his eldest son Cristiano Junior but that's where the similarities end for a nine-year-old being brought up
amongst unimaginable wealth you know this generation have four kids you know what I'm talking about they have everything easy they have computers they have good food and a table they're not sacrifice a lot to get what they want I want to give the best egg I want him to suffer a little bit to which what do you want to be to have the hunger that you had I think this is will be the most difficult parts you took him back to one of your first apartments and very interesting where the residents were yes used to
live yes with your friend and you took him back there and it was to teach him really about where you had come from but you hadn't always had all this stuff I remember I was in was in Lisbon very normal residence I can say a poor residence and I took him to the residence to the room that I used to live the same persons was there too working there in the building incredible and I see the the the ladies and they start to cry when they see me and I took Christiana to the room and
I said Cristiano look the daddy used to live here and I look at me good job now and I say hey no daddy don't joke Olivia and he didn't believe he didn't believe because what is he now don't imagine what we'd sacrifice the hardest time that we had you don't believe so it's hard but I think I'm gonna I'm gonna be I know how to do it to motivate him to push him but we'll be here the difference will be here all bye I just pray that I want the mini Christian will be like me
but no panic no problems you gonna be whatever you want I'm not gonna make a pressure just a little bit and let's see what's gonna happen let's talk about football briefly you currently have a hundred and forty five records where you've been most first or only something in professional football it's a ridiculous number you're a team player in the sense you love to win big team competitions but you also love individual awards they matter to you it's part of my sacrifice my obsession to win to have success you know when I mean when I say
sue says it's I work for that talent is not enough you have to I did it myself so much that this is part of me records is part of me I don't follow the records the records follow me it which is different are you addicted to winning yes I am I'm addicted to the success because that's the thing that really drives you yes I think so and I think it's not something bad I think it's good is moody motivate me if you're not if something that motivated it's better you know to stop you understand the
records coming in a natural way it's different but when you are close you say why not for example this record now I think I had a chance to beat and it's beautiful record the most top score in the world history of all the goals you scored I won't ask you to name the favorite I'll tell you what my favorite is for a number of reasons it's the one you scored against you've a for Real Madrid mine as well it's your favourite ass we've got it here [Applause] and it will it meant so much to me
a the technique of the goal respect expertise evil secondly it's against UV and the crowd reacted by giving you a standing ovation and you went up to them and you beat your chest and then here you are now playing for you then I think it was all to do with that goal in that moment because you helped to see an opposition crowd responding to your genius in that way it moved me and I'm not you but it moved me watching that helps a lot trust me absolute by far the best goal I scored in my
career technically from your body technically they did very difficult to do it that I tried to score this calls many many many many years I have seven hundred goals and I never score a goal like like when he went in you need finally got it what was that feeling life like Oh finally I score a bicycle call a beautiful bicycle and the jumping I think I'd never see a goal with a bicycle like this one the way I jump against before against Juventus quarter finals of Champions League probably one of the best goals I ever
seen football not just because it's my goal if it will be another player I will say the same better than sex better than sex no it was no with my G Oh No but now there is surprisingly open and relaxed during our interview but the mood was about to change dramatically very emotional for you I never saw the video when Georgina Rodriguez started dating Ronaldo in 2016 she not only had to cope with his extraordinary fame she also became an instant stepmother to renowned those three children including twins born to a surrogate mother they have
since had one daughter together quoting an unusual but very strong family unit let's talk about Georgina your girlfriend who you've been with for three years she gave an interview recently and she said that she was sexy lingerie in bed every night and she does that because it makes her feel good but she said it also will make your man happy so the obvious question question is does it make you happy no it's very funny makes me happy but she's a fantastic person fantastic true love fee yeah it is she said when you met it was
like love at first sight you met her in a Gucci store and it was like magic yes it was Gio is you know it's it's it's part of me she helped me so much of course I'm in love for her she's the mom of my kids and I'm so passion for her you know it's it's great she's my friend we had conversations I opened the heart for her she opened art for me probably the greatest love of your life exactly this is what I wanna say she said she would love one day potentially to be
crystianna's wife she would see that as a great honor why not would you like to announce maleo getting married not now is not the priority but of course why not one day I'm not avoid that it's it's pornography you're 34 years old if the four children you have been avoiding it don't make me pressure you mean it you've been avoiding it come on crystianna one day I will said to my kids don't get married before you're 35 you got one year like there are no excuse but the doctors they say you have the 28 you
know my biologic agent Oh will be will be or one day for sure it's my mom dream as well so one day why not your mom has been the rock of your life Dolores yes seems an extraordinary life force to somebody always there for you how important is she been to you my mom was the the pillar of the family and what I have today it's big apart from her Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro is a force of nature wherever an Aldo is his mom is usually at his side she lost her own mother when
she was just five years old and was raised in an orphanage she never remarried after an aldose father died of liver disease due to his alcoholism at the age of 51 it's no wonder then she has so much emotion invested in her son your mom has to take sedatives before your big games she can't even watch you play if it's a really big game she gets all nervous she could somewhere was alone understand way can you do anything to calm her honor more in the beginning yes she's not allowed now to watch big games I
speak with the ones who friends stay with their she go a walk with her around the house because she should get so nervous she's she was a few times in a stadium and she she brought two times the thief because he's she's like so tense what we say when you get nervous and you she fainted she fainted two times in Radium yes she's nervous it's impossible I cannot get I say listen I I don't have father anymore I don't want to miss my mom now so do not go more the you're not gonna watch more
games a big games quarter finals or was semi-final final go around and she she knew it as well that she cannot watch that kind of games so I'm up you know your father Dennis he died it was alcoholism really the more I dug into his stew the more empathetic I got to him in the sense that he had gone as a very young man to war for Portugal in Mozambique and Angola and the experience had a bad effect on him like he did on many young Portuguese men when you learned more about what your father
had had to go through did you have more understanding then of why he became the man he did he said I don't know when I speak about my father I feel sometimes no words to explain why I what it was my father we found something which I don't think he would have seen it was an interview on Norwegian television where they just turned up at his house a house I think that you bought him 2004 the year before he died and just before the big euro final and they just talked to him on the doorstep
and if you don't mind I'd like to just play earth play you the clip because I think you'll find it very interesting fantastic take me to me to lose the roof win the competition is not a capacity to it occurred to me too okay wrinkle time your money oh and what the cost of school time every da damn well the course is very emotional for you I never saw the video I never saw that video of unbelievable to hear your father speak about how proud he was of you it must mean a lot to you
yes I think Terry will be funny didn't expect to cry but I never saw these images I don't know where you I have to have this image to show my family but I really don't know my father and the percent it was was a drunk person I never spoke with him like normal conversations was hard did he ever tell you that he was proud of you to your face yes yes I say that it treat me unbelievable I was like the diamond of the family and he knew it he knew that there will be a
football player and for me it's it's made me sad because everything sorry what's the sadness for you to be the number one and he don't say nothing don't you to receive rewards to see what I eat he never saw how great you came know what you can see from that interview was how much you would have meant to him I think it was very I see he clearly had a huge owe my family see my mom my my my brothers even my old son but my father really didn't see nothing and it was it I
you but it is what it is I maybe I get everything in the photo because he is in the sky and give me do you feel that energy yes I feel how is it affected you do you think as a father yourself has it determined the kind of father you want it to be the self-discipline that you have the now you barely drink you didn't never smoked or taking drugs or any of those things you've you've been very self-disciplined is that because actually part of you wants to show your kids that there's a different way
yeah what I wanna be a good father I think I'm a good father nobody's perfect I am still in a process to to learn but I think I'm a good father I I I took the example of my mum my family my father I don't want to be a good father you know what are the values that your family has instilled in you do you think that you want to instill in your kids they have to be humble their work they have to work hard you have to respect the people you know the basic points
and when you add Elfi environment around your house the kids feel and I want to be the most cool guy cool father possible they're made let me let you into a secret I have four kids you won't be cool you think you will when you get to 40 45 finish it so you become a least cool it doesn't matter if you Christiano Ronaldo or me he seems to be cool it's gonna come to you yes I want to break it to you gently it's part it's part of the journey but I in in that situation
I will be prepared I know the kids they're gonna put all the canary of girlfriend they're gonna have a family and it's good that will be old I will enjoy my where I get in a football and I will have you know a calm life I hope Cristiano jr. is nine years old he's already a very talented young football we found a great clip it says after Real Madrid I think in 2017 won the Champions League at the burning and this is this is Cristiano Junior showing off his skills at the burner bell there on
that celebratory day and you could see I mean he's the flashes here are there like his death I mean look at this fabulous the dribble the term the lethal finish this good it's if he's like he's a mini-me yeah I think so yes well now there's obviously a doting father we're protecting his children from negative publicity isn't always easy I feel in Bowers I just changed the channel so don't focus on what you don't see that they speak bad about his father okay a very bad case I've got to ask you about a difficult time
in your life is here it was you know you've had this extraordinary career in life and then you get hit by a serious story with lots of negative headlines and a woman accuses you of rape and it becomes Ronaldo rape and so on as we sit here the police have just recently dropped that investigation into you there is no criminal investigation now tell me about your reaction to what has happened well I'm not gonna forget that 2018 probably was the most difficult year of my life in terms of outside football as you mentioned that what
they accused me was very very hard you know media press writer another part that make me feel sad because they play with your dignity it's it's hard you have a girlfriend you have a family you have kids it's bad it's hard I remember one day I was in in home in the living room with my girlfriend you know to give to do it as a pin television to see the news and they speak about Cristiano Ronaldo this and that and you you'll listen your kids coming down in the stairs and you change the channel because
I was embarrassed it's like what is that I feel embarrassed I just changed the channel so don't for Cristiano don't say that they speak that about his father okay a very bad case makes me feel so bad peace to be honest but outside my house it's something that you cannot control when he told your mother to tell her the news of the police I dropped it she must have been hugely relieved of course especially my mom you know when you get old and the informations that media pass it's not the real information and especially for
my mom my mom sometimes was very nervous my mom relax you know the the the son that you have in home relax nothing gonna happen trust me but she was nervous she's old she's she's nervous any games imagine a personal stuff of his son's speak about jail rave this kind of stuff is hard for an old person but in end of the the day was good the low they did the job that you they should do it and I'm happy of course Reynaldo may finally be off the front pages of the newspapers but it's a
rare day when he's not on the back pages but he often shares the sporting headlines with his archrival Barcelona's Leonor messy the two of them are so far about their footballing rivals the Ballon d'Or Golden Ball award given to the world's best player has become almost a personal competition for them with each winning five so far which is the one you'd most like to end up with is number one which record golden balls for example the most golden balls and Easter of football for example I will love it and I think I deserve as you
mentioned before Macy's offense fantastic guys fantastic player is in his history of football but I think I have to have six or seven oh eight you gotta be a little more above him I think do you ever text him I mean you ever like no I ever good what I say in a way fair many peoples were surprised my the way I speak but my relationship with him is it's it's we are not friend or own friends but we we share this stage for 15 years you know I'm I have good relationship with him and
I know that it pushed me to be a bit a better player and I push him to be a better player as well is he the best you've played against in your in your life yes for sure did you ever think when you were growing up in pretty poor part of Madeira you weren't poverty-stricken as a family but you weren't well off at all you mom had to work really hard and you lived in one room with your three siblings did you ever think you'd have a private chef cooking never never never past in my
mind I thought I even have opportunity to play professional you know to to play in sporting in Portugal for example and Manchester or never what would you like your legacy to be Christiana when it's all over football yeah one is finished what would you like the legacy to be for Cristiano Ronaldo how do you want people to remember you one of the best players in history one of the best depend of the taste of the people I cannot control what the people like some people like this player of that player I'm sure on me instead
of football what I did and when I'm continuing to do but one of the best players in history for me the number one in history but for some fans the number one for the other ones the second doesn't matter I know I'm in history of football or one of the greatest ever when you have a tombstone yeah when you die and you have your own tombstone okay and it says here lies Cristiano Ronaldo how would you like to be remembered as a man you can write your own tombstone number one not number seven number one
you say in the end for you it's all about being number one isn't it that's really what drives you you don't want to be second no you don't want to be third you don't know this number I don't know that number there's one final thing I want to ask you and this may break my heart and you shed tears in this interview I might shed some tears Wow it depends it depends of what you say actually which is I heard that there was a very good chance that you were gonna join Arsenal before you join
me last was my team is it true that you nearly joined us for not much it is true of course it's just true yes I was with us how close we very close like break my heart one step Kerli well seriously seriously you were about to join us yes and then we would have won everything well oh how will help and then the last second you ditched my club and you went to Manchester United and you broke my heart this is your chance to apologize yeah our campus I'm so I'm so I want to apologize
okay forgive me - don't join arsenal I have a giffy okay this is what might have been okay this is what should have happened this particular is what I dreamed of last 16 years and it's not too late I could see a Bama yang like as a Pepe and Ronaldo and you'd win everything it's not too late this is your destiny come on crystianna make an old man no this is your ass'll shirt thank you you like it yeah I mean this is this is what should i do guys nice it didn't happen but that's
an alive I appreciate what what they did for me specialist and vendor but you know the football the football you never know what where you're gonna play the life it's it's it's like that especially the football but I appreciate Arsenal because it's a fantastic love and your your support Arsenal now you support Juventus here cuz my Italian a mighty Italian team so perfect so it's it's a good club so thank you for the shirts I will I will keep it in a special place because Johnny's been great to tutti thank you want to get to
know you better I'm I'm a fan I think you're the best players ever played the game thank you for the little pleasure you've given me as a football fan over the years I wish you all the very best with your career here in Chile and playing for your Ventus and I appreciate the time and the honesty if you aim to give her much for for your time as well as I mentioned before for me it's a pleasure to give interview to you I didn't expect that you're gonna make me cry I think I never I
never crane interview I think but you know it was a I may be a little bit embarrassed I don't think you should be anything but proud actually of what your father said was incredibly moving I thought in my mind that I saw this video before but it I was I didn't saw that really I never saw that video so surprised me because well do you see my reaction um but you know what it was it was a human reaction it was a son watching his father say how proud he was of his son I'm a
father I have a father and that's it that kind of moment doesn't move you emotionally you're not a real human being to me it was a very powerful moment in this interview and it said a lot about you in your relationship with your father and how important family is to you it is this is why I did why I start to cry because I didn't control and was very emotive moments for me so thank you very much crystianna has great energy thank you very much thank you really appreciate it thank you guys Paula Grady meets
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