19/10/2023
Act. a las 12:57
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Cristiano Ronaldo He lives a millionaire retirement in Saudi Arabia in exchange for 200 million euros per season. The Portuguese striker swims in abundance and has a more than assured future after a successful trajectory.
But his beginnings in Madeira were very humble, born into a family with few resources. It was years complicated in which the Portuguese international had to almost survive while trying to make his way in the soccer.
Fabio Paimone of the classmates he had at the academy Sporting de Portugal, also stood out like him, although he did not have nearly the same success. But they shared many things while fighting for their dreams: “When we played in the Sporting and we lived in the academy, we lived in the stadium. At night we went to McDonald’s to collect the hamburgers that no one wanted anymore and that were not good to sell. We were there every night to catch the burgers, we ate the leftovers that were going to be thrown away. Sporting knew it. It’s not like today. “They allowed us to go out,” he explained in an interview in The Sun.
“We were friends. I can’t say best friends but we were friends. I spent vacations with him. One was in Brazilit was my first time in Brazil, before the 2004 Euro Cup. It was the first Euro Cup in Cristiano with the Portugal national team and before that we went on vacation.
“The first time I met Cristiano I was eight years old, I was new to Sporting and we went to a tournament in Madeira. We had good times together, really good times. Football was not so serious for us at that time. We could enjoy being children. I always remember Ronaldo as a hard worker, really committed and someone who wanted to be the best. He’s always been like that, angry when he lost. That effort has brought him to where he is now,” he admitted. Paim.
Paim has always valued the spirit of improvement CR7: “Even today he doesn’t need to play, but he wants to be the best. He has won everything he could, there is nothing left. But it is the result of that effort when we were children. Not even he knew he would get to where he is now. I believed that I was going to be someone in football, a good player, but to the level it reached? Not at that time.”
Paim y Ronaldo They separated when he signed for Manchester United in 2003. And Paim remember with rapture what Ronaldo he told sir Alex Ferguson: “If you think I’m good, wait until you see Fabio Paim“.
But the career of Paim It didn’t stick. After training at the Portuguese club, he was loaned to Chelsea in the 2008-2009 season and then he was in many clubs without great relevance until he ended up retiring in 2021 in football Polish: “I regret some of the decisions I have made, but knowing myself as I know myself, it was impossible to be at Cristiano’s level. But yes at that moment I was better than Cristiano. He should give me one of his Ballon d’Or!”
2023-10-19 09:43:19
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