Part one of Cristiano Ronaldo's most revealing interview yet with Piers Morgan. The pair discuss Manchester United, retirement, his engagement and upcoming wedding and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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United vs City Confusion
00:06:27
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| Christiana, how are you? | |
| I'm good, my friend. | |
| I interview you every three years, and in three years, an amazing amount of stuff happens in your life. | |
| Do you ever stop and think your life is like insane? | |
| I never thought about that, but I have to agree with you. | |
| It's true. | |
| The last interview that we made was hard, honest, like always. | |
| This is what I pretend to do with my interviews, which is I don't do it a lot because of that, because less is more, as you say. | |
| But in this time, I promise I'm going to be a good man. | |
| You've told Gio, you're not going to be too controversial. | |
| I say because I share with her that I'm going to give interview to you, and I say, I promise that I'm going to be a good man. | |
| Do you think you'll keep that promise? | |
| Yes. | |
| Today, yes. | |
| Okay, we'll see how you get on. | |
| Let's see. | |
| I love your. | |
| We're in Saudi Arabia, your home in Riyadh. | |
| I love your man cave here, but there's one problem. | |
| You know what it is. | |
| Where is the Arsenal ship that I gave you? | |
| I knew it. | |
| I mean, where is it? | |
| It's inside the. | |
| I mean, come on. | |
| You know, it still kills me. | |
| The revelation that you made last time that you could have been an Arsenal player, that you met Arsen Wenger, you were going to come. | |
| It was all done. | |
| All agreed. | |
| And then you know who I blame for this? | |
| John O'Shea. | |
| You know why I blame John O'Shea? | |
| Because Sporting Lisbon played Manchester United in a friendly and you terrorized John O'Shea so badly that four of the United team went to Sir Alex Ferguson, their manager, and said, Do not leave before you sign this kick. | |
| And he didn't leave and he signed you that day. | |
| True story? | |
| This is a true story. | |
| But it's, as I told you, Pierce is the past is gone. | |
| It's part of the life. | |
| And honestly, when I look at Arsenal, I'm always looking not like a rival. | |
| Like I was nearly there. | |
| So I'm not going to say that I have a passion for the club. | |
| But when I look at Arsenal, I like the team. | |
| I liked when they win because of that story. | |
| But, you know, I was the life, you know, I was the football. | |
| It's all about opportunities and moments. | |
| And this is what I see. | |
| And I took that opportunity. | |
| But to be honest, and you know that I'm never lie, or sometimes, well, sometimes I'm lie for a good ways, but I was nearly there in Arsenal, to be honest. | |
| But I think my story will change a lot. | |
| Well, it's similar. | |
| It won't change for you, but it changed for me. | |
| I don't think so, because Arsenal still continue a top team and win titles and everything, big players. | |
| So maybe Arsenal will be better, but not what it could have been. | |
| Not too much. | |
| Do you think we'll win the league this season, Arsenal, the top of the league? | |
| Could be. | |
| It's possible. | |
| I think the Premier League, the level of the teams is very, very similar. | |
| I mean, the top ones. | |
| But you know, the Premier League, it's always... | |
| You never know what's going to happen. | |
| It's a very, very difficult league, very tough league. | |
| But Manchester is not going to win the league for sure because they have so many points behind right now. | |
| It's possible, yes, but I don't believe on that. | |
| Arsenal, probably. | |
| Give me some hope here. | |
| Come on. | |
| Can you get the big dog to give us the. | |
| It's possible. | |
| Let's see. | |
| Let's see it come out of your lips. | |
| Yes, Arsenal can win the league. | |
| Yes, Arsenal can win the league. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I've got my soundbite. | |
| It's possible. | |
| You mentioned Manchester. | |
| You're probably talking about City, not United. | |
| Last time we spoke, it was a very different situation. | |
| You'd fallen out with the people at United. | |
| You wanted to leave. | |
| You did leave. | |
| Pretty much everything you said in that interview has been borne out by events. | |
| So even though it caused huge controversy, I don't think anyone can look back at that interview and say you weren't being completely honest and that the problems you identified were obviously true. | |
| There's not been much improvement. | |
| I mean, if anything, United have gone backwards since that interview. | |
| What is going wrong with United, do you think? | |
| And how can it get fixed? | |
| Well, as you mentioned, goods. | |
| For me, I'm sad because of the club that one of the most important clubs in the world and a club that I still have in my heart because of the obvious reasons. | |
| You have to follow with the intelligent people, smart people, to create a base for the future as Manchester United have so many years ago. | |
| Nikki Butt, Gary's, Roy Kings, Beckham's, they become big players, but they had youth. | |
| So Manchester United right now doesn't have a structure. | |
| I hope that change in the future, present, future, because the potential of the club, it's amazing. | |
| It's one of the most important clubs of the century. | |
| So. | |
| Do you still look out for United results? | |
| And does it hurt you to see how badly they're doing? | |
| Of course, of course, because I was to play there so many, many years. | |
| I win the Champions League there. | |
| I win the Golden Ball. | |
| I win like 12, 13, 14 titles there. | |
| So as I say, and I repeat, Manchester United is still in my heart. | |
| I love that club. | |
| But we have all to be honest and look for ourselves and say, listen, they are not in a good path. | |
| So they need to change. | |
| And it's not only about the coach and players, in my opinion. | |
| There's a young Portuguese coach there now, Amarin. | |
| What do you make of it? | |
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The Golden Ball Legacy
00:06:07
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| You do it to his best. | |
| What are you going to do? | |
| Miracles? | |
| Miracles? | |
| This is impossible. | |
| We say in Portugal, miracles is only in Fatima. | |
| And I don't know if you know that expression, they start to smile because they're not. | |
| No, no, no, yeah. | |
| You know the Fatima? | |
| Of course. | |
| And you're not going to do miracles. | |
| Even the players, Manchester United, they have a good players, but then don't have some of them demand what Manchester United is. | |
| You became a billionaire last week. | |
| And I was the one that told you. | |
| I was wrong. | |
| I was the one that told you. | |
| Because I messaged you and say, oh. | |
| Have you seen this? | |
| It's not true. | |
| It's not true. | |
| I'm a billionaire so many years ago. | |
| I knew you'd say that. | |
| I knew you'd say that. | |
| And you probably were, right? | |
| Yeah, with 309. | |
| How did you know? | |
| Who told you? | |
| Please, I know my money. | |
| Do you know exactly what your money was? | |
| Really? | |
| Not precise 100%, but of course you have to take care of your stuff. | |
| It's normal. | |
| I'm not like that to look. | |
| But I have people around me who help me to do the right things in all areas. | |
| But financial, I have a guy who I spoke almost every day, not about that, but about my structure, the investments, the opportunities, the end I have control, you know, because it's my life, it's my money, you know. | |
| That moment when you realize you're a billionaire, what was that like? | |
| I knew that this is what will happen, so I was prepared. | |
| It's a matter of time. | |
| So, honestly, I was super happy. | |
| It's like when you won a golden ball because you make your own goals. | |
| You make your own goals, everyone makes these own goals to build a house, to have a car. | |
| It was my goal to reach that number because, yes, yes, honest. | |
| I'm not obsessed for the money because I think the money can help you in many ways. | |
| But when you reach some level, the money doesn't matter anymore, in my opinion. | |
| But it's always good to have more because we are human beings, we are never happy with what we have. | |
| That is something that I learned during the time that financial is important, the money is important, but other things that are more important than that. | |
| But to answer your question, I was super happy because it was one of the main goals that I had on my mind. | |
| Apart from football, trophies, Champions League, Golden Balls, trophies, everything. | |
| Financial and in a business way, it was my goal. | |
| So with 39, I reached that number and I was so proud, to be honest. | |
| And now the world has caught up, and Bloomberg did this report, and you were declared the first ever football billionaire. | |
| The first ever. | |
| And there are a very small number of sporting icons who have passed that mark in other sports. | |
| Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, you could talk about Michael Jordan. | |
| But there are very few, Cristiano. | |
| In football, I'm the only one. | |
| You're the only one in football. | |
| Does that mean a lot to you to be the only one? | |
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| Well, don't surprise me a lot because if you say the story of football and they can't call me khaki or whatever, but the numbers don't lie. | |
| It's something that I'm always saying and I will continue to say. | |
| If you see so many records in football, Christianity is there in the top of the list. | |
| So it's one record more. | |
| So for me, honest, don't surprise me because I knew my potential in football and my potential outside the football. | |
| Don't surprise me, to be honest. | |
| I knew that I'm going to reach that number for many reasons. | |
| But deep inside I was happy is one of my goals and my motivation is still to say ah but money is continue to do continue is your motivation for football. | |
| No, but helps in my opinion. | |
| You said about records that you don't chase record they chase you. | |
| In a way the same applies to money I would think is that if you keep your performance levels at the level you've helped then obviously the brand is maintained. | |
| The revenues come in right? | |
| I mean it's all performance related. | |
| This was my strategy a few years ago and say, if you continue to be in the top level and continue to perform, that number will reach to you because, as you mentioned good, everything it's together. | |
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Cars Are No Longer Passion
00:07:03
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| You understand? | |
| So it was my plan. | |
| If you asked me, you thought that you will reach so quick. | |
| Probably no, but I knew that I will reach that and it was good. | |
| Show me your left hand a minute. | |
| Which one you want to see, this or this? | |
| Well, I'm looking at both and thinking your left hand is probably worth more than I have in my life. | |
| No no no, and I'm not a poor man Cristiano, but this, this arm is, it's not that much. | |
| I mean this watch alone. | |
| When they see Cristiano, when they see the right, they say wow Christiana, have that. | |
| But sometimes it's, it's fake. | |
| But they don't. | |
| They don't realize because I'm Cristiano, nobody believes that it's fake. | |
| I'm joking. | |
| What is the most? | |
| A present? | |
| I cannot say no, people give me really. | |
| Georgina offered me this in Christmas and I have a sponsor with Jacob, so I didn't buy with my own money. | |
| I have the sponsor. | |
| You understand what? | |
| What is the most expensive thing you've ever bought? | |
| Most expensive, most extensive, expensive thing I ever bought a plane. | |
| A plane yes, I love the way you had to think about that, but it was what? | |
| What kind of plane? | |
| I have my plane since I was 13 years old, but I changed right now, one year ago, so it's a little bit expensive. | |
| What, what model do you have now? | |
| I have a Global Express Nice. | |
| I mean that's a sign, isn't it? | |
| That's a, that's a moment when you have your own plane, isn't it? | |
| Since I had 13 years old. | |
| So I have 10 years the plane, but I changed for a better one now. | |
| But, as I say please, for me it's is, I tell you before, the money gives you opportunity to have material things, which is good, but I'm in a moment of my life that for me, it's I don't care anymore about that. | |
| For me, the most important things, it's I want to live the next chapter of my life with not expensive costs, let's say in that way, because they're already my dreams is already gone. | |
| I mean, when I was young 20s until 13s I used to love cars and everything to drive. | |
| I'm not have that passion anymore. | |
| Planes I just have because I need, because I'm I'm not, I'm not normal person. | |
| I cannot be in airboards. | |
| I buy because of that it's, and of course it's, let's say it's. | |
| It's help me the word like a comfort. | |
| Yeah, it's like a comfort, but I don't look for that anymore. | |
| I just want to be up, enjoy the life. | |
| As Carl Jung say, after the 14th it's, you really know, And you start to live the life. | |
| And this is what I start to feel. | |
| That for me, the money is good, but it's not important anymore. | |
| But you mentioned normality there. | |
| And you clearly can't lead what people would consider a normal life. | |
| You can't go with other groups of people because you'll be mobbed. | |
| And I've seen it. | |
| But having said that, you're probably the most normal billionaire superstar I know. | |
| Genuinely. | |
| You're just very regular. | |
| People always ask me about you. | |
| I go around and people come up to me all the time. | |
| And it's like, what's Cristiano like? | |
| What's he really like? | |
| What's he really, really like? | |
| And I say, you know, my Cristiano, he's just a normal guy. | |
| You know, we message a lot and you're just a regular normal, you're like one of my mates, right? | |
| You don't carry with you the airs and graces of somebody who feels entitled to any of this. | |
| I get the feeling that you never forget where you came from. | |
| Probably your mother, I think, and your family, make sure that doesn't happen. | |
| Gio probably does too. | |
| But I think you enjoy the trappings of your success, but I don't think it's changed you as a person at all. | |
| I think you are actually surprisingly normal. | |
| It's difficult when you speak about you. | |
| But as I told you before, and this is what I feel, I don't care. | |
| You know me. | |
| I don't care what people are thinking about me and if they say that I'm cookie, that I'm arrogant. | |
| I don't care, honestly. | |
| With 14 years old, five kids, I have the best friends ever. | |
| I have the team that they help me a lot. | |
| Public opinion for me is not important anymore. | |
| I just want to be happy, to do what I like to do, to still maintain my 11 and football score goals, which is still maintain me happy. | |
| And I'm still happy when I go training, compete in the training. | |
| And I think I'm a normal people. | |
| I'm not... | |
| I don't spend money. | |
| For example, I'm not going shopping. | |
| If I go anywhere, I can buy whatever I want. | |
| But I don't need that anymore. | |
| Sometimes I, okay, let's say three days ago I buy a car, but it's for collection. | |
| It's like you buy a frame. | |
| I'm not going to drive that car. | |
| It's like investment. | |
| What was the car? | |
| Mercedes. | |
| Sorry, I have Mercedes as well. | |
| I buy Bugatti as well. | |
| Tour Buillon. | |
| But it's investment. | |
| How many cars have you got now? | |
| I don't know, Piers. | |
| You don't know how many cars? | |
| I don't count the cars. | |
| Serious, I don't count. | |
| I love how you make that sound so normal. | |
| But it's normal. | |
| You don't know how normal. | |
| I don't want to be humble. | |
| It's a fact. | |
| 10, 20, 30, 40, 50? | |
| Yeah, maybe... 50. | |
| Honestly, if you have to bet, I say, I don't know, 41, 40. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Piers, I don't know. | |
| I swear, I swear for my kids. | |
| What's your favorite? | |
| I love the Bugattis. | |
| Yes, I have a few and they have different, they are different beasts. | |
| But you ever drive these cars? | |
| I never drive. | |
| Really? | |
| I have, for example, I was one week in Madrid and not even go to my garage to see the cars if they are there. | |
| Just the day that I left, the two Bugattis went to the inspection. | |
| And they're coming back and just look at them. | |
| They are good, they are clean, they're good. | |
| They go to the garage. | |
| But it's honest. | |
| For me, the cars is not anymore a passion. | |
| Do you ever drive? | |
| Yes. | |
| You do? | |
| I drive. | |
| You can drive around. | |
| I'm not driving a lot in Saudi because we're used to training in the afternoon and I go always with the drivers. | |
| And the traffic is terrible. | |
| Yeah, and the traffic is terrible. | |
| But for example, when we're coming back to home, it's not traffic. | |
| So yesterday, you know, the Al Nassar, they have the sponsor with BMW and all the players have a new car. | |
| So yesterday, I drive home with my new BMW home. | |
| But I'm not drive like in Saudi, like one year. | |
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First Professional Goal Story
00:09:24
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| Well, six months, let's say you mentioned goals. | |
| You just scored two more goals for Portugal. | |
| You then got substituted in the 77th minute, and the opposition Hungry scored a last-minute equalizer. | |
| I can only imagine how you were feeling. | |
| I would have one rule if I was your coach: if Cristiano has two goals, never stop him getting a hat-trick. | |
| Because I know you and you would do anything in your power to win the game, but to get a hat-trick. | |
| So, how did you feel about being yanked off without being able to score your hat-trick? | |
| Honest, even the goals. | |
| Sometimes we think the easy way will be the better way, but it's not. | |
| Sometimes, I know what you mean, but I have to be in the mind of the coach as well. | |
| Maybe you want to keep the result to one to put another player to save the result that is fresh, that they can help to defend more the team. | |
| I understand, and a part of that, I have to agree with the coach because we are not all the same, we are not thinking the same way. | |
| So, if I will stay, I will try to score the third goal. | |
| But substitution sometimes is good, even if you have two goals, it's not a problem for me anymore because I've scored so many hat-tricks. | |
| So, one more, one less for me. | |
| Your goal scoring record since you turned 30 is ridiculous. | |
| It's more than before you were 30. | |
| I mean, there's no player in history that has that. | |
| You scored 948 career goals now. | |
| So, last week. | |
| All with videos. | |
| Exactly. | |
| So, there's proof. | |
| I've heard you say that. | |
| You're right. | |
| There's proof of every goal. | |
| Do you remember your first one? | |
| The first goal I scored professional. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Morens, yes. | |
| What was the goal? | |
| You should see the goals. | |
| It's good. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| Really? | |
| Oh, the second goal? | |
| No, the first goal, unbelievable goal. | |
| So you started with an absolute worldie. | |
| You didn't see this goal. | |
| The first goal, amazing. | |
| I did a video of this goal, yeah. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| This is what it was the moment that the people say, listen, this guy's gonna be a good player. | |
| Really? | |
| Yes. | |
| Okay. | |
| Oh, step over. | |
| Oh, first in. | |
| Well, that is a banger. | |
| And the shirt came off. | |
| See that? | |
| Oh, what a goal. | |
| Even the commentators, they say, this is why these players don't stay longer in our league. | |
| With 17 for me, it's like it was a big boom for me. | |
| Yeah, that feeling, that first goal, and it was a great goal, but that first goal, is that where you first got that rush where you were like, this, okay, I love this. | |
| No, this gives you confidence for yourself. | |
| You say, wow, I play with the men's, so they want to stop me. | |
| But even with 17, I was quicker than them, smarter than them, and scored. | |
| This is where you start to feel that you're gonna be, I'm not gonna say golden ball, whatever, but a good professional player. | |
| Who's been your favorite player to watch ever? | |
| To mention one player, it's I think it's not it's the one like if the television's on and there's a match and there's a certain player in the last 20-30 years and you've gone, I've got to watch that because of this guy. | |
| I watch the game, I watch the players. | |
| To watch something because of one player, no. | |
| I watch, for example, Brazil because they have many players. | |
| They have Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Caca, yes. | |
| I watch, I don't know, Argentina because of the players that they have. | |
| I watch Spain. | |
| I look in that way, not because of one player. | |
| Honest. | |
| But I have to respect that in the street of football. | |
| You have many, many, many, many great players and stars players, which you enjoy more than the other ones, of course. | |
| But to follow a game only because one player, no. | |
| Could you imagine retiring? | |
| Yes. | |
| Have you got in your head an age when that may happen? | |
| Soon. | |
| But I think I will be prepared. | |
| Will be tough, of course. | |
| Will be difficult, yes. | |
| Probably I will cry, yes. | |
| Yeah, normal. | |
| And I'm easy guy to cry. | |
| I'm not keeping my feelings. | |
| I'm honest. | |
| I'm open person. | |
| Yes. | |
| Will be very, very difficult, yes. | |
| But peace, I prepare my future since 25, 26, 27 years old. | |
| I prepare my future. | |
| So I think I will be capable to support that pressure. | |
| What could bring you anything like the joy of football, of actually playing football? | |
| Because you clearly still love playing. | |
| What outside of football do you think could even come close to replacing that? | |
| Anything or nothing? | |
| Have you accepted? | |
| Nothing, I think. | |
| Nothing will be compared. | |
| That the adrenaline that we have for football to score a goal will gone this way. | |
| But as I say, everything at the beginning, everything at the end. | |
| So I think I will be prepared. | |
| I think. | |
| But I have other passions. | |
| I'm going to have more time for me. | |
| I'm going to have more time for my family to raise my kids. | |
| Especially the Bella that they have to use all that. | |
| I start to feel when I travel and stay so many days in a lot of the team. | |
| Kind of a rush. | |
| I want to follow Cristiano Jr. because it's in the moment of the age that are a little bit stupid. | |
| They do stupid things. | |
| Normal, because I did the same. | |
| I want to Matteo that I love football as well. | |
| I want to be more family person, more present. | |
| Also, to have my own hobbies, which is I like, you know, to like, I like to see OFC, the fights. | |
| I like paddle, for example. | |
| It's our main sport. | |
| How are you good at paddle? | |
| We learn, me and my friends, my closer friends. | |
| It's something that we've been together, unit, so it's good. | |
| I like and I want to learn something more about my companies, other stuff, about, for example, I'm not never going to be a YouTuber, of course. | |
| But you have got 76 million subscribers. | |
| I want to be there. | |
| And you got there in about three months. | |
| I mean, you say you're not going to be a YouTuber. | |
| You're one of the biggest YouTubers in the world. | |
| I struggled for three years to get to 4 million and thought I was a genius. | |
| You come along, and in about three minutes, I'm going to spend more time on that to learn, to do it more stuff. | |
| I think I'm going to do it the funny things and things that I'm not used to doing before because, as you know, for me, the perspective that I have, football is not only about to go to the training ground, training one hour and do treatment. | |
| I leave football 24 hours, let's say, in that way, to do it the right things to perform. | |
| Because By my age, the things is getting more difficult to recover fast. | |
| But I'm enjoying this process. | |
| It's nice that you see the life with the different eyes and with the different vision. | |
| You have the different ideas. | |
| For me, it's a good challenge. | |
| Even with my age, I'm enjoying this period of my life because you learn so many things and you start to think about other things, not only in football, and makes you happy. | |
| Which are the brands that you really enjoy working with? | |
| I know that you're big in real estate, for example. | |
| You have, I know about your aftershave. | |
| I use it. | |
| It's very successful, I have to say. | |
| I mean, people go, oh, you smell like Christian. | |
| But you've got so many different things you're involved with. | |
| Which are the big ones for you that you're most engaged with, do you think? | |
| YouTube, we start to do a few things with the YouTube. | |
| The image is always there. | |
| As you say, the real status is my really passionate and people that don't know that. | |
| I'm a challenged person in some business that people don't even dream about. | |
| That I'm not, I mentioned of the interview. | |
| I'm a person that always wants to learn, not only in the business way, but also in life for the new chapter of my life that you start to get a little bit more mature in some decisions. | |
| You have, I don't want to reveal a secret, but you have a video game room around the corner with about eight consoles. | |
| And I noticed you've got an eSports award there. | |
| I mean, you love all this stuff, don't you? | |
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| Yeah, it's the future. | |
| As you mentioned, the esport, I'm ambassador of that huge event that they do it every year here in Saudi. | |
| I have to appreciate our boss, MBS. | |
| He gave me that opportunity to be the ambassador of the e-games, which is, if you never saw, you should be here to see. | |
| It's the great event. | |
| And I'm here in the country, of course, because of him as well. | |
| So it's a guy that I really respect, and I'm here because of him. | |
| So we do the fantastic things for the country, especially a game. | |
| Let's turn to the other more important deal you did recently. | |
| Which one? | |
| I do. | |
| Your engagement to Gia. | |
| It's the most important. | |
| I mean, come on. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Sorry. | |
| This is the biggest deal. | |
| If not, you killed me. | |
| Yes, it's true. | |
| No, you've managed to resist getting married. | |
| To your 40s. | |
| Well, you haven't got married and you're 40, right? | |
| But finally, you propose. | |
| So talk me through this. | |
| What made you decide to finally pop the question? | |
| I'm always saying the things, the good things coming in the right time. | |
| And sometimes you need time to realize that you don't do it some mistakes. | |
| I don't mean in that way. | |
| I'm going to propose her because I think it's the moment. | |
| Not only because it's the mother of my kids, but only it's the person that I love more. | |
| It's the love of my life. | |
| So I think it's the right moment. | |
| As you say, you're 14 years old. | |
| Nothing going to change. | |
| Nothing going to change just because we're going to marry it. | |
| It's just a beautiful chapter of the life. | |
| You know, it's good. | |
| How did you propose? | |
| What's funny? | |
| That's funny. | |
| I knew it that one day I will do that, but I don't know which way. | |
| You know, it's difficult. | |
| I don't know. | |
| You are married. | |
| When you propose your wife, you never know the moment, the scenario, the environment. | |
| And I'm always saying that the good things coming in a natural way. | |
| Football, life, opportunities, marriage. | |
| And it coming in a funny way. | |
| Because she asked me something. | |
| She asked me for a ring to offer her. | |
| Because it was one of her dream to have like a good stone. | |
| And I work, work hard, work hard. | |
| And finally, I find what she loved. | |
| And I speak with my guy and I say, listen, keep it. | |
| We're gonna do it at dinner tonight. | |
| And after I'm gonna offer to her. | |
| And this is what we did. | |
| But something after I stay with her alone and one of my friends, they take the phone and filming, which is they never did before. | |
| I know that friends for 10 years, they never do this. | |
| Not even ask me to take a picture, imagine. | |
| And they filming me. | |
| And I say, wow, weird. | |
| And after, it was like one o'clock, 1 a.m. My daughters was in the bed, sleeping, Alana and Eva. | |
| And when my friend gave me the ring to offer Gio, I was given the ring and my two girls come in and they say, Daddy, you're gonna give the ring to mom and you're gonna ask her to be married. | |
| And I say, wow, it's the right moment to say yes. | |
| I say, yes. | |
| It wasn't a timing. | |
| And Gio didn't believe. | |
| Yes, yes. | |
| I knew that I will do it that one day. | |
| But you hadn't planned it for that. | |
| No. | |
| And it was the moment that my daughter's coming and I say, yes, now is the time. | |
| This is what I want. | |
| And I offer. | |
| Because my daughter's saying that, my friends filming. | |
| And were they there, the daughters? | |
| Yes. | |
| Did you get on bended knee? | |
| I didn't do that because I was like. | |
| Prepare and was a beautiful moment. | |
| Did you make a little speech or did you just say? | |
| Yes, I did. | |
| You know, it was recorded. | |
| What kind of thing were you saying? | |
| No, I say simple. | |
| Peace, come on. | |
| I'm not like a romantic guy. | |
| I am. | |
| You sound very romantic. | |
| I'm not a very romantic guy. | |
| I'm not that kind of guys. | |
| They bring flowers every week to the home. | |
| This is a big moment. | |
| One per month, let's say. | |
| Not every week. | |
| But I'm romantic in my way. | |
| You understand? | |
| But it was beautiful. | |
| And I knew it that it was the woman of my life. | |
| So I did that and I hope that I do it. | |
| Did she hesitate? | |
| Of course not. | |
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| No, but one thing that I love it, she didn't care about the ring. | |
| She asked me if I was if I speak the truth. | |
| Say honest? | |
| Honest? | |
| Yes, yes, honest. | |
| I want you, blah, blah, blah. | |
| I want to marry you, blah, blah, blah. | |
| But she didn't believe. | |
| But it was funny. | |
| Did you cry? | |
| I didn't cry, but I was like, because I see his reaction, I had tears on my eyes, yes. | |
| And was that because of the cost of the ring? | |
| Both. | |
| Oh, don't say that right. | |
| Both. | |
| I've seen human beings get blinded by that ring when she walks around. | |
| Last time we spoke, you'd gone through a very sad period as a family. | |
| You'd lost your baby son. | |
| You talked very movingly about that. | |
| That kind of experience can damage a relationship or it can make it stronger. | |
| Clearly, in your case, it must have made things stronger for you. | |
| Do you feel that? | |
| I feel that we always support each other. | |
| Sometimes it's like in a relationship you have good moments, bad moments is part of the journey. | |
| But probably in that period we consolidate more the relationship because of what you say. | |
| But even this is something that I learned by the time, even in the worst moments, you have to make the things smooth, you know, because not only when you are in the there, in a good moment, that's not gonna come the bad moments. | |
| Try to find the balance for everything in the good moments and in the bad moments back to the basic points, a baseline. | |
| And this is something that I learned. | |
| It was difficult periods, but it was nice. | |
| Honest, it was nice because I learned so many things. | |
| I saw our other perspective of the life. | |
| My daughter, now which is three years old, she's the queen of the family, she's the who make the house happy. | |
| You know, everything happened for a reason, I believe on that. | |
| So we are a blessed family. | |
| So I'm proud for that. | |
| For those who don't know Gia, I've had the pleasure of meeting her a few times. | |
| What is it about her that made her so special to you? | |
| Well, she has so many things, good things that I love that I believe she's unique in that way, which is she take care of me, which is very important. | |
| She takes care of the family, she takes care of the house, which is take a lot of work. | |
| If you want to be the opposite, I will not deal with that. | |
| Men cannot deal with that, honest. | |
| And she's special for me because a part of his qualities, beautiful body and everything that I like. | |
| She's a person that understands me and take care of me and my family. | |
| So this is what I'm looking for. | |
| Was your mom happy when you told her? | |
| Yes, I believe they are happy. | |
| My whole family. | |
| It's something that I think that it's good for all family, not just for my family, kids, wife, but also for my mom, brothers, sisters. | |
| I think they are all happy because they say, they see that I'm a grown man now. | |
| So they are happy and as I say and I'm continuing to repeat, it's a new chapter of the life. | |
| Do you have a wedding day yet? | |
| Not yet. | |
| We plan to do it after the World Cup with the trophy. | |
| But... | |
| Do you know where you want to get married? | |
| We didn't plan that because she is not the person that they like big parties. | |
| She doesn't like it. | |
| She likes private things. | |
| So I will respect these decisions because I'm not... | |
| More importantly, have you decided on where the stag party is going to be? | |
| And can I come? | |
| Why not? | |
| Thank you, Cristiano. | |
| And we'll do it in interview. | |
| Jose, is he organizing it, Joseph? | |
| Jose organized everything. | |
| Our CEO organized everything. | |
| Have you got a stag party? | |
| I mean, we'll be talking a week, a week somewhere. | |
| You are part of the family. | |
| Thank you, Cristiano. | |
| When you were 13, you were so hungry at the Sporting Lisbon Academy. | |
| And two ladies in the McDonald's would give you free burgers. | |
| I hear that you were walking through an airport and you randomly bumped into one of them. | |
| You know when you see some person and you recognize straight away even 20 years after. | |
| President Trump, yeah, friend of mine, was given a CR7 shirt and you wrote on it to President Donald J. Trump playing for peace. | |
| What did you mean by that? | |
| He's one of the guys that can change or help to change the world. | |
| You lost one of your Portuguese colleagues, Diego Joto. | |
| I didn't believe when they sent me messages. | |
| I cry a lot. | |
| It was very, very difficult moments for every for the country, for families, for friends, for teammates. | |
| Ah, the vast. | |
| Very, very, very sad news. | |
| If you ask me, Christian, it's a dream to win the World Cup. | |
| No, it's not a dream. | |
| But it shouldn't define you as a Portuguese. | |
| No! | |
| To define what? | |
| To define if I'm one of the best of history. | |
| To win one competition, six games, seven games. | |
| You think it's fair? | |