For Cristiano Ronaldo, after all he has achieved, family is always the number one priority. Ronaldo has just experienced the “greatest pain” in his role as a father.
After months of waiting, Cristiano Ronaldo (37 years old) and his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez (28 years old) thought they had two more little members joining their family, but the baby boy in the pair of twins soon passed away, the baby girl luckily survived (Photo: Daily Mail).
Along with his career as a world-class footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo has always embraced fatherhood with enthusiasm. Witnessing the premature death of his newborn son recently was the “greatest pain” he has ever experienced as a father.
After months of waiting, Cristiano Ronaldo (37 years old) and his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez (28 years old) thought they had two more little members joining their family, but the baby boy in the pair of twins passed away early, the baby girl luckily survived. This information was shared by the superstar in a recent post on his social media account.
Ronaldo wrote: “It is with the deepest sadness that we must announce the passing of our little son. This is the greatest pain that parents can feel. Only the birth of our daughter can give us the strength to go through this moment with hope and happiness.
We thank the doctors and nurses for the professional care and support they have given us. We are devastated by this loss and ask for respect for our privacy during this difficult time. Our baby boy will be an angel in our family’s life. We will always love him.”
The post was signed “Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez” and appeared on Ronaldo’s social media accounts on Monday.
Ronaldo’s photo announcing the good news became the most liked photo on Instagram in 2021, attracting 32 million interactions by the end of 2021 (Photo: Daily Mail).
Previously, in October 2021, Ronaldo shared the good news that his girlfriend was pregnant with twins. Ronaldo’s photo announcing the good news became the most liked photo on Instagram in 2021, attracting 32 million interactions by the end of 2021.
Losing a child after months of waiting and hoping is an indescribable pain for any parent; for a man who tends to prioritize family life and especially cares for his children like Ronaldo, this must have been a very difficult psychological challenge for him.
In a recent interview, Ronaldo said: “I have a lot of things in my career and life, but the most important thing for me is still my family. Keeping my family members healthy and taking care of my loved ones is my number one priority, because for me family is the most important thing in the world.”
As an icon in the football world, Cristiano Ronaldo has also had his fair share of controversial moments with fans while playing for different clubs. Just last week, he was heavily criticised for breaking an autistic teenager’s phone after walking out of a match in a bad mood after Manchester United lost to Everton.
But putting aside the controversies on the field and the sidelines of his playing career, Ronaldo is also a 37-year-old man who is very excited about fatherhood and has proactively sought out fatherhood with an enthusiastic attitude.
Family tragedy from childhood
In fact, from a young age, Ronaldo witnessed sad events in his family, enough for him to later appreciate the meaning of a happy, warm family of his own.
The youngest of four children from a poor family living in the Madeira Islands, Portugal, Ronaldo boarded the fateful flight at the age of 12 to begin his training at Sporting Lisbon. The young Ronaldo cried every day during his first year of training at Sporting Lisbon, because he missed home so much.
Ronaldo’s mother, Dolores, played a key role in the family and was a significant influence on Ronaldo’s growth. His father, Jose Dinis Aveiro, suffered from severe alcoholism and died of complications from alcoholism at the age of 53 in 2005, when Ronaldo was 20 and had yet to achieve great success in his playing career.
Cristiano always regrets when thinking about his father: “I always tried to be the leader, but then my father could not see those things, he could not see me receive awards, could not see me grow up and become what kind of person. But in return, I still have other family members witnessing my every step, my mother, my brothers and sisters, my children, but my father, he will not be able to see, he passed away too soon”.
In 2019, Cristiano Ronaldo did a long interview on British TV channel ITV. When he saw a clip of his late father, a clip he had never seen before, the Portuguese star was very emotional.
In the clip, the father talked about his pride in his son Ronaldo, even though at that time, what Mr. Jose witnessed were only Ronaldo’s very small initial achievements, compared to the achievements he later achieved.
In tears, CR7 shared in the interview: “I have never seen that video clip, it is unbelievable that my father was so proud of me. I have so many emotions right now… I thought the interview would be very funny, I never thought I would cry during the interview.
Honestly, I have never seen this clip. I don’t know where you got these images from, but I must ask for them back to show my family. To be honest, I don’t know my father very well, he is a drunkard, I can never really talk to him. Even a normal conversation is very difficult for me.”
In the family, the father’s alcoholism and constant drunkenness put the burden of raising and educating his children on the mother’s shoulders. Ronaldo’s older brother – Hugo also struggled with alcohol and drug addiction in later years.
In 2014, Ronaldo’s mother revealed that due to her family’s difficult circumstances, she wanted to have an abortion when she found out she was pregnant with Cristiano (Photo: Daily Mail).
In 2014, Ronaldo’s mother revealed that because of her family’s difficult circumstances, she wanted to have an abortion when she found out she was pregnant with Cristiano – the youngest child of the family, but because the doctor did not agree to do this, she drank a lot of alcohol and ran until she was exhausted, because she wanted to… give up the child she was carrying in her womb.
Later, when Cristiano learned about this story, he still joked gently with his mother that now, the very son she once intended to abandon was the one who made her very proud.
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Witnessing his family’s problems, Ronaldo soon had the desire to build a cozy little family of his own. Ronaldo’s first child – Cristiano Junior was born in June 2010, however, the mother’s identity was never revealed.
Then, twins Eva and Mateo were born in June 2017 via surrogate. His girlfriend Georgina gave birth to his daughter Alana in November 2017.
Talking about the joy of being a father, Ronaldo once confided: “When you become a father, it is a completely different feeling, a feeling that you cannot put into words. There are moments with my children that I will always remember very clearly, every time I remember, I immediately feel very warm.
When Real Madrid won the Champions League in 2017, we made history, and when the final whistle blew, I felt like I and my teammates had sent a message to the whole world, but when my son appeared on the pitch to congratulate me, suddenly, everything changed.
Walking on the pitch together, holding hands, was another joy that I didn’t know until I became a father. Then I asked for a message to be engraved on the heel of my new shoes, words that I would read before I put them on and went out on the pitch. Those words were “a child’s dream”. Maybe now you understand my feelings about being a father.”
