cristiano ronaldo He ends 2023 as the highest-paid footballer in the world.His signing of Al Nasr reports to the former Real Madrid striker nothing less than 200000000 EUR. However, as he recalled in an interview, the Portuguese’s start was not easy. Fabio Paimwho was his classmate in college Sporting CP. They were both rummaging through the remaining burgers. McDonald’s Go and eat.
“When we played for Sporting Lisbon and lived in the academy, we lived in the stadium. In the evening we went to McDonald’s and bought burgers that no one wanted, and they were not easy to sell..We go there every night to get burgers We ate leftovers that were meant to be thrown away. The sports world knows this. It’s not like today. “They allowed us to go out,” Fabio Paim said. sun.
«We are friends. I can’t say we are best friends, but we are friends. I spent the holidays with him. One of them was in Brazil, which was my first time in Brazil, before Euro 2004. It was Cristiano’s first European Championship with the Portuguese national team and before that we went on holiday,” he recalled.
«I first met Cristiano when I was eight years old. I was new to Sporting CP and we went to Madeira for a tournament.. We had a great time together, it was really great. Football wasn’t that serious for us at that time. We can enjoy being kids.always I remember Ronaldo as a great employee, very loyal and wanted to be the best. He has always been like this, getting angry when he loses. It’s this hard work that got him to where he is now.», continues Fabio Paim.
«Even if he doesn’t need to play today, he wants to be the best. He had won everything he could and had nothing left. But this is the result of our efforts as children. Even he didn’t know he would get to where he is now. I thought he was going to be a figure in football, a good player, but the level he reaches?At that time, there was no», he admitted.
Cristiano Ronaldo, succumbs to his friend’s talent
Cristiano Ronaldo even said this to Alex Ferguson when he was playing for Manchester United. «If you think I’m good, just wait for Fabio Payim». Retiring in 2021 and playing for Chelsea on loan, he concluded when looking back on the past: “I regret some of the decisions I madebut know me as you know myself, Impossible to reach Cristiano’s level.but if I was better than Cristiano then. “He should give me one of his Ballon d’Ors!”