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Someone once told me, even if you hate someone, try looking at the positive qualities of that person and you might change your mind. Ever since I've seen him, I've harboured deep hatred for Cristiano Ronaldo. He has always been up there on my list of most hated people, sometimes I’ve had reasons for hating him, and sometimes none at all. Yes I know, it doesn’t make me sound like a great person but emotions are hard to control.
One of the articles I’ve written, entitled ‘Why the World Hates Cristiano Ronaldo’, seemed to get me quite a few haters, on and off B/R. Now, this is not an attempt to ‘suck up’; I am merely trying to find reasons that suggest, to myself and other Cristiano haters that he isn’t such a bad person after all.
I’ve never, no matter what, doubted the talent oozing out of this youngster and he definitely has style – Yes this is the part where you gasp in disbelief over me complimenting the ever so famous “CR7”
Intelligence: Is Cristiano really smart? Or plain stupid?
No one, not even me, can deny Cristiano the ‘smart’ tag. Although he does have the tendency to come off a little over smart at times, I wonder if it’s all an act. The tantrums and arrogance has definitely increased his popularity, even if it may not be very positive. More people know him, more people talk about him and thus more people watch him. His antics make him unpredictable and I’m told ‘fun to watch.’ Which is – and it hurts me deeply to say this – very true.
"Diving is an art" people say; it now has become a part of football and if anybody should be hailed diving King, it's Cristiano. To risk your individual popularity and glory (because diving is frowned upon) in order to score a goal for your team, shows selflessness and a bit of integrity and until I wrote that last line, it was the last thing I’d associate Cristiano with. I know I don’t know him personally and who was I to judge, but since I’ve seen some change in him and so I’m ready to change my opinion about him too
Improvement
Although he started off, even at a young age as a great player, he seems to be improving. Cristiano used to be selfish and yes, a bit whiny too, but I’ve seen change. Although I hate him, I do watch him play and I’ve seen him improve a lot under Sir Alex Ferguson. Earlier known as a ball hog, he’s been assisting Rooney a lot lately, and thinking more about scoring goals for the team rather than just himself.
The Crying
At first, and for a very long time the crying really annoyed me. The shocking, over done break down after the Euro’s in 2004 didn’t impress me at all. When John Terry broke down after missing the penalty last season , something made me feel bad for him, but it wasn’t like that for Cristiano Ronaldo. I clearly remember saying ‘Yuck, what a baby!’
The ‘wink’ in 2006 during the world cup had me baffled. How and why in the world is he trying to portray himself as a sensitive person and yet shows so much attitude? Doesn’t he know it’s the foundation for a worldwide Anti-Ronaldo campaign? That it might make him seem fake? Yet with an exception of few, many seem to love him. He got even more popular and became a ‘celebrity’.
Cristiano, cried, threw tantrums and pouted, yet was exceptionally good on the field –and as any Manchester United fan how good. Even after the most childish tantrum you can still see people, grown up men even, wearing United shirts with the number 7 on their back.
Skills
Everyone knows about Cristiano’s skills, his famous step over and the creativity in his football. Moaning, whining and hitting the ground howling in faked pain is also, in my opinion one of his skills! How many times have I tried to fake an injury and no one ever fell for it? For that I applaud him. If only he could have taught me a few things in school, I wouldn’t have to bother with Algebra every Tuesday, and I’d just fake an injury. Woo.
He is very good with the ball – by ball I mean football. Cristiano emulates inventiveness and style and almost always brings forth an element of surprise. Why watch boring old soap actors, when you’ve got the real deal?
The Metro-sexualness
Everyone wants to look pretty. Even men. Hairy eyebrows, hairy legs and stupid hair is definitely a turn off and I guess that’s something Cristiano realised. The plucked eyebrows and waxed legs may work, but dumping loads of hair gel on his head, I was never sure of.
But, like I said , he’s a celebrity. The world watches him, he has the right to want to look good, so hey, every man for himself.
What HE Says...
Randomly coming across some of Cristiano’s quotes, I realised he is human. When you hate someone so much that you stop thinking of him as a human being that’s when you know it’s really bad. I’d like you to try and imagine how hard it is for me to write this, being such a huge hater of Ronaldo, but I do appreciate good football, and that’s what I’m trying to prove. Even if I hate a person and he’s talented I will not deny it. I’m trying to convince myself that there is more to him than the diving and winking.
"A part of the supporters show themselves to be more unhappy than others. But I hope to change their minds. When I put on the United shirt I give my maximum. Nobody can condemn me on this”
And he’s right, I haven’t seen him give anything less that his best, and he knows it!
"Now I understand I have made the best decision. I am with Manchester in body and soul,"
"After what happened to the Arsenal player (Eduardo da Silva), I am scared to do my skills.”
I’ll tell you one thing, if I was playing against him he’d be right to worry about doing his “skills” ...
He is a great player and definitely will be marked by quite a few players.
"Last season was the best time of my career, but I know I can get even better." – Looking for improvement, which player doesn’t? It’s great to know that he’s accepted the fact that he can get better
Cristiano seems to be maturing and his future is looking brighter. Now I know I might get a lot of stick for actually complimenting Ronaldo too, maybe about how I don’t stand up for what I believe , or how easily I change my words. To be honest, none of that is true. I’ve hated Cristiano for four years! Not because he was a bad player, but because he didn’t play fair, because he seemed like an immature brat who didn’t seem to want to grow up.
I feel he has bettered since those days, so why should I go insulting him for no specific reason?
Think of this as a peace offering, an admission of true talent and maybe a new era of my life. Where I may learn to start hating less (well it’s only Cristiano I’ve ever really hated, but still) and accept talent for what it is.
Cristiano, is good. I am not calling him great or legendary, because that’s crossing a boundary that’s still too far out of my reach. I’m taking baby steps... maybe someday I might call him great, maybe I won’t.
So far I haven’t convinced myself that he’s outstanding, but I definitely like him better than I did when I started writing this... so it’s hard to tell... nothing is impossible now, is it?
Cristiano Ronaldo can underline his claim to be the best player in the world against Roma on Wednesday
Who is the best player in the world? Rafael Benitez has a standard response. “It’s impossible,” the Liverpool manager likes to say. “It could be someone we don’t know who is playing in the second division in Argentina.” So that’s what he was thinking when he took transfer market punts on hapless Sebastian Leto and Gabriel Paletta. In theory, Benitez could still be right. In all probability he is just being contrary. Sometimes the obvious batters you over the head. Cristiano Ronaldo is making the rest of the game concussed.
It is becoming impossible to ignore Ronaldo’s claim to be the definitive answer to football’s favourite pub question. In Rome on Tuesday his Chilean opponent, David Pizarro, was left complaining about the Portuguese youngster’s tricks. His gripes sounded sourer than those of an audience volunteer who asks for a refund after being embarrassed by a hypnotist. Pizarro said: “There’s no doubt he [Ronaldo] has quality but it’s also true that he has a big head.” And he would not have been the only South American based in Italy to be offended by Ronaldo’s extrovert, match-winning performance. In Milan, Kaka must have been cursing. The Brazilian has spent two years being almost universally regarded as football’s finest exponent, and he has the talent to reassert himself, but right now Ronaldo deserves the accolade.
We must wait until December for the next time the World Player of the Year is awarded, a title won by Kaka in 2007. In the meantime, a more famous crown is within Ronaldo’s grasp. The European Golden Shoe, handed to the best league goalscorer, is rich in history and will forever be associated with its inaugural winner, a committed Ronaldo fan who knows him well. It is his compatriot, Eusebio, who was the first winner in 1968.
Only one Englishman has his name on the Shoe and, oddly, it is Kevin Phillips, who won it after scoring 30 times in his annus mirabilis of 1999-2000. Curiously, given that among the continent’s big five leagues, the English top division is seen as the most open, Phillips is one of only three players to scoop the Golden Shoe while based in this country. The others are Ian Rush and Thierry Henry, a two-time winner. No Manchester United player has ever held the title.
The Golden Shoe, administered by the publishers of World Soccer, uses a weighting system to give players in the major leagues a chance against the strikers from such as the Albanian and Faroese divisions who would otherwise have it sewn up. Goals scored in the best divisions, such as the English Premier League, are awarded two points; those in the intermediate divisions, such as the Scottish Premier League, 1.5 points; and those in the weakest divisions, such as the League of Wales, a single point. It is why Rhys Griffiths of Llanelli, with 37 points, is sixth in the standings despite scoring 37 times compared to Ronaldo, who has scored 26 league goals and has 52 points. Fernando Torres and Emmanuel Adebayor hold fourth and fifth places respectively, but Adebayor is a little too far behind, and while Torres is capable of the type of heavy goal burst needed to take him ahead of Ronaldo, with Liverpool concentrating on Europe the chances of him doing so are slim.
Nor does Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, third in the table, seem much danger to the Portuguese. The Ajax striker has already scored more times (29) but goals in the Dutch league are only worth 1.5 points and Huntelaar is running out of games. It leaves Sevilla’s Brazilian maverick, Luis Fabiano, as the only player likely to deprive Ronaldo, a lover of coloured footwear, from taking gold. Fabiano is four behind Ronaldo but Sevilla have two games more than Manchester United remaining in their league campaign.
If Ronaldo is often the victim of rough play, Fabiano was once one of its keenest perpetrators. During his early career his misdemeanours were almost as numerous as his goals. On one occasion, in the Copa Libertado-res, an opponent from River Plate had his neck marked by Fabiano’s studs. Mr Angry only calmed down when he worked under Sevilla’s former manager, the serene Juande Ramos.
The similarity between Ronaldo and Fabiano is that neither began as heavy scorers. Fabiano has 22 goals in 23 games this season but had previously scored 22 in 75 games. Ronaldo’s first year at United brought six goals in total; his second nine but only five in the league, and in Europe he was outscored by David Bellion. His third season saw Ronaldo reach double figures for the first time but it was only in his fourth campaign, 2006-07, that he became a scorer of substance. And yet his 23 goals last season, which seemed remarkable at the time for a wide player, now appear paltry beside his 36 strikes in all competitions in 2007-08.
Club records lie within Ronaldo’s reach. Denis Law, 44 seasons ago, is the last United player to reach 30 league goals for the season and the most ever scored was 32, by Dennis Viollett, in 1959-60. Law’s overall record for a season, 46 goals, is unlikely to be broken but all you need to know about how prolific Ronaldo has been is that he has already scored more than Ruud van Nistelrooy ever managed in a league campaign.
Sir Alex Ferguson has no specific explanation for Ronaldo’s development, regarding his scoring as merely one expression of a brilliant all-round game. “It is something we didn’t know he had,” said Ferguson. “When we signed him as a young player what enthused was his ability to attack defenders. He was always a wide player as a kid and we bought him on that basis. That’s why we keep playing him there, because it’s difficult to attack players in the wide positions.”
Ferguson surprised Roma by using Ronaldo as a central striker but does not imagine repeating the tactic on a regular basis. “Not when he can do what he does from the wing. But he could play anywhere, I’m telling you,” Ferguson said. “It’d be no problem.”
Bernd Schuster, Real Madrid’s manager, last week proclaimed Ronaldo the best in the world in what appeared to be another attempt by the Spanish club to unsettle United’s totem. “In a couple of years he [Ronaldo] may be wearing the white shirt at the Bernabeu.” Ferguson is not alone in wondering whether Schuster himself will still be at the Bernabeu in two years, given Real’s love of sacking managers, and reacted wearily. “We get used to it. It’s Real’s way of tapping the player and Uefa don’t do anything about it, so there’s no point bothering,” Ferguson said. “Ronaldo is delighted here. United is his place.”
Jonathan Northcroft