The story of Cristiano Ronaldo’s achievement is one of the most famous in the world of football, but his road to success was difficult. One of the biggest obstacles he faced was the absence of his father, José Dinis Aveiro.
The successful athlete comes from a modest background, with a working parent who silently lived through the traumas of mandatory participation in the war and death from liver disease caused by alcoholism.
“It makes me very sad that my father didn’t see me becoming number one. My family saw it, my mother, my brothers, even my eldest son. But my father couldn’t see any of it.”
– CRISTIANO RONALDO pic.twitter.com/pfKMkR92Ao
— Soccer motivations (@MotivacionesF) September 16, 2019
For this reason, the relationship between father and son remained largely damaged, and the footballer even defined his father as an “alcoholic” during an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan on the show ‘Good Morning Britain’.
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In this show, Cristiano shed tears while watching unreleased footage of his father talking about his family, and later revealed what his biggest pain is: “It’s sad that he can’t see me receiving awards.”
The impact of the war on Cristiano Ronaldo’s father
According to El Comercio, José Dinis Aveiro only spent 13 months in the Angolan War of Independence, but that was long enough to see several of his companions die in combat or from diseases such as malaria.
In addition to the fact that hunger and water shortages were frequent, the only source of food and drink was beer, which they called cuca, which is probably where their alcoholism originated.
After military service, the father of the family returned as a shadow of what he was and also had to face the economic problems that occurred in Portugal, and his only job opportunity was as a gardener, according to Semana.
An inspiring legacy
Cristiano Ronaldo dedicated a goal to his father at the 2006 World Cup and to his son at the World Cup in #Qatar2022 ♥️🇵🇹 pic.twitter.com/cJWyLd4gTg
—Blue (@BlueboyCR7) November 25, 2022
Despite everything, Cristiano Ronaldo tried to help his father and was by his side when he died in 2005, promising to be the best.
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In 2008, he achieved his goal with his first Champions League and first Ballon d’Or, but his father was no longer there to see his success, as reported by AS.
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