Cristiano Ronaldo has always shown enormous talent for playing football, a sport he began practicing when he was a child. It was precisely the Portuguese’s desire to succeed that led him to abandon his studies almost without hesitation.
The Portuguese player’s first steps in his career were with Sporting, in his native country. At 16, everything started to go his way and that’s why he abandoned his secondary education, a step he took after leaving his hometown in search of luck.
In 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic brought the entire world to a standstill, Cristiano posted a photo on social media with the caption: “Always challenge yourself. For me, it’s time to study.”Although he never gave details about what he was learning, some estimate that he was resuming that debt that he had left pending when he was a teenager.
The winner of 5 Ballon d’Or awards has a huge fortune today, but when he was born, his family was facing severe financial hardship. In fact, his mother recounted in a book that when she found out she was pregnant with him, she considered having an abortion because she was afraid of not being able to give him what he needed.
When the forward spent hours on the streets with his friends“I used to play with old boots”he once said in a letter he published. There he also revealed that he always knew he would reach the top, so in some ways leaving school paid off, although it is not what he recommends to his children today.
“When I was 15, I approached some of my teammates during training. I remember it clearly. I told them: ‘One day I will be the best player in the world’. They laughed. I wasn’t even in Sporting’s first team yet, but I really thought that. I was completely serious.”he said.
