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CRISTIANO RONALDO Andy Jones Words: Nathan Gallagher Photography: With his fourth Golden Boot award in the bag, there’s no doubt that Ronaldo is the world’s greatest footballer. So when he invited FHM to Spain for an exclusive interview, we didn’t need to be asked twice… 054 DECEMBER 2015 055 CRISTIANO RONALDO lip past the door staff at training ground and spend two clothing and endorsed health Ramses – a restaurant hours a day just trying things out,” products. Spend 20 minutes in and bar on Madrid’s he says. “They say, ‘That one smells his company and it’s no stretch to S manic Plaza de la like Gucci, this one like Dolce & imagine him, still in his training Independencia – on a weekday Gabbana.’ But I chose what I like. gear, looking through bottle designs afternoon, and you’ll immediately I became so involved, obsessed on his phone, or testing notes of find yourself in an oasis of calm and with it. Everything has to be top. apple and sandalwood on his wrists. measured luxury. So far, so tasteful. Big. Unique! Like me.” Ronaldo wants to rule the world. But if you look around for a while, Now, as FHM sits down for our your attention may be grabbed by exclusive chat with Ronaldo (the DADDY RONALDO the sight of one gentlemen who only UK magazine to be invited to Despite outward appearances, the just happens to be one of the most do so), we notice that everything man himself is humble and sincere. famous faces in global sport. about him is shiny – hair, shoes, In fact, he’s actually a good laugh. He doesn’t prop up the bar, but teeth – except his skin, which is, In the middle of his on-stage instead sits at a quiet table in the of course, matte and blemish-free. speech at the launch, an over-eager corner, people-watching, going His eyebrows have been tweaked, photographer sends part of the through his emails, maybe having his hands are manicured and his carefully selected decor crashing to a business meeting. Cristiano lips are glossy. In short, he looks the floor. Bits of wood and flowers Ronaldo – because that’s who absolutely incredible – the perfect go everywhere. we’re talking about – likes to hold athlete for the high definition age. Pepe, Ronaldo’s Real Madrid court over the busy plaza below, Fine details matter to Ronaldo. teammate, sensing weakness in furiously planning. Every day he does countless the same way he would in an These days, the 30-year-old stretches to avoid injury (seriously, opposing striker, whoops with has half an eye on life after football. how many times has one of the laughter in a bid to put Cristiano The central figure in that life is still most fouled players on the planet off. Ronaldo begins his carefully Cristiano Ronaldo the sports star ever been out?), eats well, sleeps prepared address again – giggling – record-breaker, goal-getter, right. Ronaldo never drinks – his at Pepe’s chiding – and making jaw-dropper – but beyond that lies father died of an alcohol-related light of it all. Spanish, Portuguese, an untapped reservoir of potential illness – and he has shunned English – during the speech, the business adventures. Football boots football’s obligatory tattoos star addresses the crowd in the one minute, briefcase the next. because it stops him donating whole range. But it won’t be any old tat he’ll blood. Just as every pass on the Back with FHM, he relaxes. stick his name on. Ronaldo is a pitch is carefully measured in the But his favourite subject isn’t perfectionist and, like his tricks microsecond it takes a brain sensor goalscoring or Ballon d’Ors: and skills, he’s working every detail to jerk a nerve ending in the leg, it’s his five-year-old son, Cristiano right. Just as kids ape his free kick every nuance on Ronaldo’s new Jnr. Ice-cool when talking about technique in the playground – the field of play is marked out too. business and football, Ronaldo gets familiar wide stance followed by At the launch of his new glinty-eyed about being a dad. the almighty whack of menace – fragrance (naturally, at Ramses), “I never imagined that something he plans to have us all slavishly FHM is told there was just one would change the way I look at my copying his fragrances, style and man who handpicked the table life so much,” he says. “It’s changed health regime. If other footballers arrangements, canapés, lighting, my mind about everything. Being can do it, why can’t Cristiano? gold and black balloons and legions a father was always the dream He’s already got the fragrance, of identically dressed brunette for me. It’s something I always Cristiano Ronaldo Legacy, and models at the event. Clue: it wasn’t thought about. I say to my friends, even the way it was made tells Ronaldo’s business manager. team-mates, all the time now, you a lot about his character. Being Cristiano looks exhausting. ‘I want more.’ It’s all I talk about.” “I would dash off from the He has his own line in underwear, So how many little Cristianos does he want? Five, six? “Why not? I think I have good conditions to “ I WANT FIVE, SIX KIDS. WHY have many kids so I want this. NOT? I THINK I HAVE GOOD Let’s find the right woman!” That’s the kind of sentence CONDITIONS TO HAVE MANY. that makes every female in the LET’S FIND THE RIGHT WOMAN!” world’s ears prick up, but being a 057 CRISTIANO RONALDO A YOUNG RONALDO WITH HIS PARENTS, papa is what now makes CR7 Darren MARIA AND JOSÉ; SIGNING FOR MANCHESTER tick. “He’s a fantastic boy – I’m so UNITED IN 2003 WITH SIR ALEX FERGUSON; proud,” he says. “Any father has a Fletcher AND AS A PROUD DAD WITH CRISTIANO JNR, HIS FIVE-YEAR-OLD SON special, different life with his son on Ronaldo that is all their own. I love just to be The West Brom captain with him: sat in bed, speaking with discusses his former him, watching TV, watching football, Man United teammate playing on the iPad, watching cartoons together. He’s very cool and now he’s five his mind is starting to change. To see your son grow up with his own different mind – it’s beautiful.” He’s for real. Ronaldo gushes about giving his son everything he didn’t have growing up in Madeira – going to the right school, learning more languages. “He will speak three languages straight from the “People don’t believe Cris start,” he says, adamantly. has a great sense of humour, Forget pictures of Ronaldo but he never took himself holidaying with glamorous women seriously. He’d be in front of or scoring goals – in between the mirror telling everyone dashing off to collect his son how beautiful he was. He from school, the Cartoon Network probably meant it, but he is where Cristiano’s eyes are most was also laughing at himself. of the time. “I have all my favourites He liked to make people to watch, so it’s good we like the laugh and because of that same ones,” he says. “Tom And he was extremely popular. Jerry, Mickey Mouse, Iron Man. We “People forget he didn’t watch many. But now little Cristiano speak English when he is starting to move on and instead arrived. He was determined he’s getting into music. He likes to learn the language and he to dance around to hip-hop and studied very hard. He was reggae when I have it on – he’s speaking English very quickly like, ‘Daddy, Daddy, you know this and with that came an music?’ He’s music-mad.” appreciation for our humour. He’d put on a Manchester FUTURE PLANS: accent – ‘Ey up lad’, that BALL IN THE USA kind of thing – when he Planning ahead, the Portugal could barely speak English. captain is eyeing a tilt at cracking Confidence wasn't a problem. America, too. He dismisses tabloid “In training, he’d do these “ LIVING IN stories he has paid $18.5 million flicks and tricks. He’d always for a flat in Trump Tower, New York be on the training field, trying AMERICA IS – “The rumours are crazy. I can’t to improve. If it didn’t work at POSSIBLE. I’D sit there and say, ‘That is true, that first he’d keep going – and is not true, that one is sort of true’” he’d get it right eventually. D E F I N I T E LY – but the idea of following Pirlo, “He used to blow us away Gerrard and co out to the US every day because of how THINK ABOUT definitely appeals. “I do not close good he was. What really PLAYING the doors on any league or any came through is that he place. I always say to go and live loved life and football – that THERE FOR in America is always possible. PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES, PA PHOTOS, REX FEATURES, INSTAGRAM/CRISTIANO RONALDO INSTAGRAM/CRISTIANO FEATURES, REX PHOTOS, PA IMAGES, GETTY PHOTOGRAPHY: was obvious from day one.” A YEAR” I would definitely think about 059 CRISTIANO RONALDO “ BRITISH FANS ARE AMAZING. Ronaldo THEY RESPECT YOU, MOTIVATE in numbers YOU AND PUSH YOU. I HAVE 2 FIFA Ballon d’Or awards GOOD MEMORIES OF THE UK” 1 FIFA World Player playing there for one year.” you – the moment he walked in, Of The Year award Eyes always front – no room to we knew we had a special player.” pass backwards, only forwards – 1 European Ballon d’Or award but he still has time for Manchester.