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Ronaldo's 'arrogance'
Dynastian98 10 years ago Edited
Real Madrid 483 7140

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/14663/9350562/ronaldo-the-world8217s-best

Article by Daniel Storey

If there was anything that symbolised the importance of Cristiano Ronaldo to Portugal's footballing success, it would be the quote from the country's President, Anibal Cavaco Silva, when presenting the player with Portugal's Grand Officer of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique.

"He is an athlete of international repute now converted into a symbol of the country," Silva said.

That is quite the proclamation from a Head of State, but it is far from an overstatement. Ronaldo does not just have to live up to Portugal's immense expectations, he is the brightest light of positivity in a nation still reeling from the debilitating effects of the economic recession. In Lisbon, they are proud to announce that Portugal produced the world's best player.

The dependence on Ronaldo, whose tendinosis gave Portugal a slight scare before the World Cup kicked off, is almost unprecedented in international football. Lionel Messi and Neymar are both crucial to the success of Argentina and Brazil, respectively, but both have world-class players around them. In Portugal's case, that simply is not true.

Ronaldo's influence was epitomised during the World Cup qualifying play-off with Sweden. Touted as a personal duel between Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the latter's brace in the second leg was upstaged by the brilliance of Ronaldo, a second-half hat-trick exhibiting the pace, skill and determination of a player at his magisterial best. It was a performance that persuaded FIFA to extend the voting for the Ballon D'Or, a prize for which Bayern Munich's Franck Ribery had, until then, been clear favourite.

There is little doubt the relative fragility of late of the Portuguese team, whose qualifying campaign came close to unmitigated disaster. Drawn in an apparently favourable group alongside Russia and Israel, Portugal stuttered and stumbled their way to Brazil from the moment they fell behind to minnows Luxembourg in their first qualifier. Home draws with Israel and Northern Ireland were combined with defeat in Russia and a last-gasp equalizer in Tel-Aviv, and it took a Ronaldo hat-trick to spare Portuguese blushes against Northern Ireland.

...

If the weaknesses in Bento's squad are apparent, they only intensify the reliance on the team's obvious strength. Ronaldo will be selected as the left of three forwards, but will have a role in which he can roam anywhere and everywhere in order to impact on matches, with the central forward (likely to be Postiga) having little pressure to score goals. The clichéd label of the one-man team has never rung more true.

Ronaldo's critics might suggest that the Portuguese would not want it any other way. He is viewed as arrogant, conceited and egoistical in some quarters, part athlete and part prima donna. This is a footballer that many love to hate, more divisive an individual than perhaps any other in the game today.

In England, such distaste probably centres around his famous wink during the 2006 World Cup quarter-final following then-club team-mate Wayne Rooney's sending off, with Ronaldo's reputation for play-acting and a protracted transfer to Real Madrid doing him few favours in the eyes of the public. But there is an additional, deep-rooted dislike of over-confidence in this country. We are happy to idolise our sportsmen, but will show disdain towards those who sing their own praises - Ronaldo's ego is viewed as blatant arrogance.

The embodiment of Ronaldo's obsession with the self came during the UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg against Bayern Munich, when he scored Madrid's third goal. There was no gratitude for the brilliant pass from Gareth Bale, no thought of hailing the team effort in effectively confirming Real's first European Cup final in 12 years. Instead, Ronaldo chose to show the number 15 with his fingers, demonstrating how many goals he had scored to break the competition's seasonal goalscoring record. At a time when his team was heading for glory, this was blatant self-congratulation - Ronaldo's critics had their ammunition.

However, criticising Ronaldo for his ego is to misunderstand the role that such confidence plays at the highest level. There is a necessity for self-confidence in sport, because it provides an absolute belief in ability. It allows for setbacks to be acknowledged but then beaten, with psychological studies revealing that those with high self-confidence are likely to enjoy increased performance. Success breeds confidence and confidence breeds success, a self-fulfilling and positive prophecy.

Some of sport's greatest names have demonstrated their evident self-assurance. "I do not think it is bragging to say I am something special," was boxer Muhammad Ali's famous boast, while Pele, too, was usually bullish about his ability. "I think another Pele is a little difficult, because my mother and father closed the machine," is just one example of his self-promotion while, closer to home, Manchester United fans will have seen a great deal of Eric Cantona's personality during Ronaldo's time at Old Trafford.

Importantly with Ronaldo, those closest to him reject the notion that he is an arrogant individual. "He is not arrogant," former Manchester United team-mate Patrice Evra said. "He suffers as a result of his image as a fashion guy but honestly, he is the greatest professional I have ever trained with. He never has enough of it. This lad has to be first everywhere in everything."

Evra's comments hint at perhaps the greatest aspect of Ronaldo's success - despite the sponsorship deals and modelling contracts, this is the ultimate professional. He is the perfect athletic specimen, but that is achieved by continued hard work, something revealed by Manchester United development coach Mike Clegg.

Ronaldo was a natural talent, a rough diamond, but he crammed in thousands and thousands of hours of graft to turn himself into the perfect player." Clegg said. "He would be in the gym with me doing core work, then he would do activation, then his actual football training."

"After training, Cristiano would come back into the gym and do some power work for his legs," Clegg continued. "Then he would go home, eat the right food, swim, sleep, where I am sure he dreamed about football, and come back in the next morning. He did that for five or six years and, knitted together, that made him become the player who was sold for £80million."

"That is the only possible route to winning a Ballon D'Or over Messi, one of the game's greatest ever players. There should be little doubt that Ronaldo is too far behind.

Such a picture of professionalism rather undermines the negative stereotypes that continue to tarnish Ronaldo. Perhaps it reflects an air of jealousy, but even in Brazil there are those who will wish him to fail on the biggest stage. It is a bizarre stance to take against someone so talented.

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http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/14663/9350562/ronaldo-the-world8217s-best

Article by Daniel Storey

If there was anything that symbolised the importance of Cristiano Ronaldo to Portugal's footballing success, it would be the quote from the country's President, Anibal Cavaco Silva, when presenting the player with Portugal's Grand Officer of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique.

"He is an athlete of international repute now converted into a symbol of the country," Silva said.

That is quite the proclamation from a Head of State, but it is far from an overstatement. Ronaldo does not just have to live up to Portugal's immense expectations, he is the brightest light of positivity in a nation still reeling from the debilitating effects of the economic recession. In Lisbon, they are proud to announce that Portugal produced the world's best player.

The dependence on Ronaldo, whose tendinosis gave Portugal a slight scare before the World Cup kicked off, is almost unprecedented in international football. Lionel Messi and Neymar are both crucial to the success of Argentina and Brazil, respectively, but both have world-class players around them. In Portugal's case, that simply is not true.

Ronaldo's influence was epitomised during the World Cup qualifying play-off with Sweden. Touted as a personal duel between Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the latter's brace in the second leg was upstaged by the brilliance of Ronaldo, a second-half hat-trick exhibiting the pace, skill and determination of a player at his magisterial best. It was a performance that persuaded FIFA to extend the voting for the Ballon D'Or, a prize for which Bayern Munich's Franck Ribery had, until then, been clear favourite.

There is little doubt the relative fragility of late of the Portuguese team, whose qualifying campaign came close to unmitigated disaster. Drawn in an apparently favourable group alongside Russia and Israel, Portugal stuttered and stumbled their way to Brazil from the moment they fell behind to minnows Luxembourg in their first qualifier. Home draws with Israel and Northern Ireland were combined with defeat in Russia and a last-gasp equalizer in Tel-Aviv, and it took a Ronaldo hat-trick to spare Portuguese blushes against Northern Ireland.

...

If the weaknesses in Bento's squad are apparent, they only intensify the reliance on the team's obvious strength. Ronaldo will be selected as the left of three forwards, but will have a role in which he can roam anywhere and everywhere in order to impact on matches, with the central forward (likely to be Postiga) having little pressure to score goals. If Postiga can occupy two defenders and create space for Ronaldo, his mission will have been accomplished. The clichéd label of the one-man team has never rung more true.

Ronaldo's critics might suggest that the Portuguese would not want it any other way. He is viewed as arrogant, conceited and egoistical in some quarters, part athlete and part prima donna. This is a footballer that many love to hate, more divisive an individual than perhaps any other in the game today.

In England, such distaste probably centres around his famous wink during the 2006 World Cup quarter-final following then-club team-mate Wayne Rooney's sending off, with Ronaldo's reputation for play-acting and a protracted transfer to Real Madrid doing him few favours in the eyes of the public. But there is an additional, deep-rooted dislike of over-confidence in this country. We are happy to idolise our sportsmen, but will show disdain towards those who sing their own praises - Ronaldo's ego is viewed as blatant arrogance.

The embodiment of Ronaldo's obsession with the self came during the UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg against Bayern Munich, when he scored Madrid's third goal. There was no gratitude for the brilliant pass from Gareth Bale, no thought of hailing the team effort in effectively confirming Real's first European Cup final in 12 years. Instead, Ronaldo chose to show the number 15 with his fingers, demonstrating how many goals he had scored to break the competition's seasonal goalscoring record. At a time when his team was heading for glory, this was blatant self-congratulation - Ronaldo's critics had their ammunition.

However, criticising Ronaldo for his ego is to misunderstand the role that such confidence plays at the highest level. There is a necessity for self-confidence in sport, because it provides an absolute belief in ability. It allows for setbacks to be acknowledged but then beaten, with psychological studies revealing that those with high self-confidence are likely to enjoy increased performance. Success breeds confidence and confidence breeds success, a self-fulfilling and positive prophecy.

Some of sport's greatest names have demonstrated their evident self-assurance. "I do not think it is bragging to say I am something special," was boxer Muhammad Ali's famous boast, while Pele, too, was usually bullish about his ability. "I think another Pele is a little difficult, because my mother and father closed the machine," is just one example of his self-promotion while, closer to home, Manchester United fans will have seen a great deal of Eric Cantona's personality during Ronaldo's time at Old Trafford.

Importantly with Ronaldo, those closest to him reject the notion that he is an arrogant individual. "He is not arrogant," former Manchester United team-mate Patrice Evra said. "He suffers as a result of his image as a fashion guy but honestly, he is the greatest professional I have ever trained with. He never has enough of it. This lad has to be first everywhere in everything."

Evra's comments hint at perhaps the greatest aspect of Ronaldo's success - despite the sponsorship deals and modelling contracts, this is the ultimate professional. He is the perfect athletic specimen, but that is achieved by continued hard work, something revealed by Manchester United development coach Mike Clegg.

Ronaldo was a natural talent, a rough diamond, but he crammed in thousands and thousands of hours of graft to turn himself into the perfect player." Clegg said. "He would be in the gym with me doing core work, then he would do activation, then his actual football training."

"After training, Cristiano would come back into the gym and do some power work for his legs," Clegg continued. "Then he would go home, eat the right food, swim, sleep, where I am sure he dreamed about football, and come back in the next morning. He did that for five or six years and, knitted together, that made him become the player who was sold for £80million."

That is the only possible route to winning a Ballon D'Or over Messi, one of the game's greatest ever players. There should be little doubt that Ronaldo is too far behind.

Such a picture of professionalism rather undermines the negative stereotypes that continue to tarnish Ronaldo. Perhaps it reflects an air of jealousy, but even in Brazil there are those who will wish him to fail on the biggest stage. It is a bizarre stance to take against someone so talented.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/14663/9350562/ronaldo-the-world8217s-best

Article by Daniel Storey

If there was anything that symbolised the importance of Cristiano Ronaldo to Portugal's footballing success, it would be the quote from the country's President, Anibal Cavaco Silva, when presenting the player with Portugal's Grand Officer of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique.

"He is an athlete of international repute now converted into a symbol of the country," Silva said.

That is quite the proclamation from a Head of State, but it is far from an overstatement. Ronaldo does not just have to live up to Portugal's immense expectations, he is the brightest light of positivity in a nation still reeling from the debilitating effects of the economic recession. In Lisbon, they are proud to announce that Portugal produced the world's best player.

The dependence on Ronaldo, whose tendinosis gave Portugal a slight scare before the World Cup kicked off, is almost unprecedented in international football. Lionel Messi and Neymar are both crucial to the success of Argentina and Brazil, respectively, but both have world-class players around them. In Portugal's case, that simply is not true.

Ronaldo's influence was epitomised during the World Cup qualifying play-off with Sweden. Touted as a personal duel between Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the latter's brace in the second leg was upstaged by the brilliance of Ronaldo, a second-half hat-trick exhibiting the pace, skill and determination of a player at his magisterial best. It was a performance that persuaded FIFA to extend the voting for the Ballon D'Or, a prize for which Bayern Munich's Franck Ribery had, until then, been clear favourite.

There is little doubt the relative fragility of late of the Portuguese team, whose qualifying campaign came close to unmitigated disaster. Drawn in an apparently favourable group alongside Russia and Israel, Portugal stuttered and stumbled their way to Brazil from the moment they fell behind to minnows Luxembourg in their first qualifier. Home draws with Israel and Northern Ireland were combined with defeat in Russia and a last-gasp equalizer in Tel-Aviv, and it took a Ronaldo hat-trick to spare Portuguese blushes against Northern Ireland.

...

If the weaknesses in Bento's squad are apparent, they only intensify the reliance on the team's obvious strength. Ronaldo will be selected as the left of three forwards, but will have a role in which he can roam anywhere and everywhere in order to impact on matches, with the central forward (likely to be Postiga) having little pressure to score goals. If Postiga can occupy two defenders and create space for Ronaldo, his mission will have been accomplished. The clichéd label of the one-man team has never rung more true.Ronaldo's critics might suggest that the Portuguese would not want it any other way. He is viewed as arrogant, conceited and egoistical in some quarters, part athlete and part prima donna. This is a footballer that many love to hate, more divisive an individual than perhaps any other in the game today.
In England, such distaste probably centres around his famous wink during the 2006 World Cup quarter-final following then-club team-mate Wayne Rooney's sending off, with Ronaldo's reputation for play-acting and a protracted transfer to Real Madrid doing him few favours in the eyes of the public. But there is an additional, deep-rooted dislike of over-confidence in this country. We are happy to idolise our sportsmen, but will show disdain towards those who sing their own praises - Ronaldo's ego is viewed as blatant arrogance.

The embodiment of Ronaldo's obsession with the self came during the UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg against Bayern Munich, when he scored Madrid's third goal. There was no gratitude for the brilliant pass from Gareth Bale, no thought of hailing the team effort in effectively confirming Real's first European Cup final in 12 years. Instead, Ronaldo chose to show the number 15 with his fingers, demonstrating how many goals he had scored to break the competition's seasonal goalscoring record. At a time when his team was heading for glory, this was blatant self-congratulation - Ronaldo's critics had their ammunition.

However, criticising Ronaldo for his ego is to misunderstand the role that such confidence plays at the highest level. There is a necessity for self-confidence in sport, because it provides an absolute belief in ability. It allows for setbacks to be acknowledged but then beaten, with psychological studies revealing that those with high self-confidence are likely to enjoy increased performance. Success breeds confidence and confidence breeds success, a self-fulfilling and positive prophecy.

Some of sport's greatest names have demonstrated their evident self-assurance. "I do not think it is bragging to say I am something special," was boxer Muhammad Ali's famous boast, while Pele, too, was usually bullish about his ability. "I think another Pele is a little difficult, because my mother and father closed the machine," is just one example of his self-promotion while, closer to home, Manchester United fans will have seen a great deal of Eric Cantona's personality during Ronaldo's time at Old Trafford.

Importantly with Ronaldo, those closest to him reject the notion that he is an arrogant individual. "He is not arrogant," former Manchester United team-mate Patrice Evra said. "He suffers as a result of his image as a fashion guy but honestly, he is the greatest professional I have ever trained with. He never has enough of it. This lad has to be first everywhere in everything."

Evra's comments hint at perhaps the greatest aspect of Ronaldo's success - despite the sponsorship deals and modelling contracts, this is the ultimate professional. He is the perfect athletic specimen, but that is achieved by continued hard work, something revealed by Manchester United development coach Mike Clegg.

Ronaldo was a natural talent, a rough diamond, but he crammed in thousands and thousands of hours of graft to turn himself into the perfect player." Clegg said. "He would be in the gym with me doing core work, then he would do activation, then his actual football training."

"After training, Cristiano would come back into the gym and do some power work for his legs," Clegg continued. "Then he would go home, eat the right food, swim, sleep, where I am sure he dreamed about football, and come back in the next morning. He did that for five or six years and, knitted together, that made him become the player who was sold for £80million."

That is the only possible route to winning a Ballon D'Or over Messi, one of the game's greatest ever players. There should be little doubt that Ronaldo is too far behind.

Such a picture of professionalism rather undermines the negative stereotypes that continue to tarnish Ronaldo. Perhaps it reflects an air of jealousy, but even in Brazil there are those who will wish him to fail on the biggest stage. It is a bizarre stance to take against someone so talented.

Comments
man_utd 10 years ago
Manchester United, South Korea 91 1444

Hmm. So people call him arrogant?
I think he has the right to be considering how hard he has worked to get at this level.

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Dynastian98 10 years ago
Real Madrid 483 7140

@Man_utd

That was what this article was trying to suggest. He is not arrogant. He has not said or done anything arrogant for the last 4-5 years. I only remember him saying that he was hated because he is 'good-looking and talented and [I] get all the ladies' or something along those lines back in 2010, but that was a while ago. He is much more matured now. He oozes confidence, but has not done anything to suggest that he is arrogant.

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tuan_jinn 10 years ago
Manchester United, Netherlands 198 6912

Arrogant doesn't necessary mean he didn't say or do anything, nor if he's not professional. People can be arrogant sometimes and it's their personal choice.

Ronaldo has all the right to do so and so the audience to hate him along with those who adore him. He did a lot of thing on the pitch that annoys certain group of people. Sometimes it's his personality, his passionate, sometimes because he acted very childishly.

The "because he's handsome and famous" is a total bullsh!t that people who tries to defend him blame on others who dislike him. The reason for disliking can be various.

Im a natural fan and sometimes I am like... "what the f**k, pass the ball dont, or relax, dont be an ignorant prick". and sometimes I screamed like... "wow how could he do that"...

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DonAndres 10 years ago
Barcelona 62 1138

Its Okay , Its Ronaldo.
Wonder when they will punish him

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Salahadin 10 years ago
Real Madrid, France 11 554

Great read thank you mate !

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CroatiaFan123 10 years ago
Arsenal, Croatia 66 2775

Omg,that's big! Thnx for posting this :D

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CroatiaFan123 10 years ago
Arsenal, Croatia 66 2775

Cristiano's punches and other vs. Atletico:

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rayrex7 10 years ago
Real Madrid, Croatia 26 797

@Donandres oh come on dude... its not like you will be all Barney when somebody tackles you from behind
thats not BIG he got pissed off, ok maybe some players wont punch but many will.

@croatiafan ok bro that video is literally made by a guy who fuckin hates ronaldo
none of those tackles were meant to kill anyone except the time when he kicked the atletico defender during the copa final but come their losing and nearly being trophyless,,,, thats not good if youre playing for a team like barca/real,, but still he needed to contain his anger

overall this is football, everybody tackles just to win,, but still its not like atletico dont play rough with ronaldo.

@dyna +1 bro .. its amazing

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decentK 10 years ago
Arsenal 38 2896

This is kinda pointless seriously, I didn't even bother to read. This is going to be another discussion where Cristiano's die hard fans will defend him no matter if he kills someone next game and haters will hate him and neutrals ( like myself ) know that he's arrogant & selfish atleast on the pitch, it's quite clear. Off the pitch he might be nice person though, dunno.

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tiki_taka 10 years ago Edited
Barcelona, France 367 9768

Love Ronaldo, hate Costa.
Love Costa, hate Suarez.
Love Suarez, hate Neymar.
Love Neymar, hate Ronaldo.

Who's right ? No one is right.

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  • History
Showing previous versions of this text.

Love Ronaldo, hate Costa.Love Costa, hate Suarez.
Love Suarez, hate Neymar.
Love Neymar, hate Ronaldo.

Who's right ? No one is right.

Dynastian98 10 years ago
Real Madrid 483 7140

@DecentK

Wow, you seem to be extremely intelligent. Please, next time I make a post, don't bother reading it since you know just soooo much already. He is extremely selfish and just sooooo arrogant.

Oh please, Arsenal fans are so stupid sometimes. Read the post before making a stupid or pointless comment.

@DonAndres

This was a post on CR7's arrogance, his punch on Godin has nothing to do with that. That was something in the heat of the moment that happens to people who get frustrated easily. Unfortunately, Ronaldo is one of those people. It's a weakness of his, and one that he can overcome, so I'm surprised he has not done it (especially since he promised not to get a red card again after his one against Atletico, but did something later on against Godin that would've deservedly seen him get sent off).

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Salahadin 10 years ago
Real Madrid, France 11 554

You don't have to take so personal he did punch but its a reaction that is normal in football in that situation.
Now saying he don't deserve a punishment is being somewhat unjust. The least the ref could have done is whistle and give a foul or a Yellow or cash fine after the game.

You don't have to punish harsh but you must punish so the next this happens the punishment should be a couple of game of ban. You must punish to get the message across that this is not acceptable and in my eyes this is football a sport where i play to have fun to compete a sport that is somewhat tough but this is not boxing nor it's rugby.

For other people that just come here to insert hate messages and steer sh*t up, are you so bored in your life?
didn't you get rise to at least try and have a healthy discussion?

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tuan_jinn 10 years ago
Manchester United, Netherlands 198 6912

@Salahadin: no one in this thread has inserted a hate message, so plz chill.

@Dyn: I have to agree with @DecentK (except the fact that he didn't read), but it's understandable what he said, I am a natural fan, and I have seen a lot of discussion regarding Ronaldo is an arrogant one. It's very normal, it doesn't mean it's a horrible thing. It's one of his down side in fact. Anyone of us can be an arrogant prick sometimes, so it's quite understandable of a guy of his characteristic. May be he didn't mean it, but he acted it.

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decentK 10 years ago
Arsenal 38 2896

@Dynastian Just because you didn't understand I will explain why I didn't read it. The reason is that I've seen 100s of identical posts/articles about defending his arrogance, so I don't bother reading it again. I haven't got anything personal against you, I'll always read here interesting posts that I haven't read yet :-)

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CroatiaFan123 10 years ago
Arsenal, Croatia 66 2775

@rayrex7 No Ronaldo is for me one of best players in world.But,he need to be punished hundred times lol.

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