Semedo revealed how it was like growing up with Cristiano Ronaldo
Semedo revealed that it was fun growing up with Cristiano Ronaldo.
Jose Semedo admitted he knew that Ronaldo going to be elite footballer, but never expected he that he will win countless prizes.
Semedo also reveals how Real Madrid ace saved his career, after Sporting deciding to offload him.
Semedo revealed how it was like growing up with Cristiano Ronaldo
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Everyone at Sporting knew he was going to be a professional footballer,
“Maybe we didn’t imagine he’d win three Ballond’Ors, but a professional footballer for sure.
Every tournament he went to from the age of ten he was named as the best player”, and would regularly dazzle his team-mates in training. Deft touches and top-corner free-kicks would leave his peers open-mouthed, before they tried again and again to ape him. He always played in teams of older players.
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Only when we played teams like Benfica and Porto did he play with us!”
Every day I would wake up at 6.30am, slowly creep around the room and every single day he’d wake up and ask: ‘Semy, where are you going?’”
“If the boss finds out we miss school we’ll get kicked out!” Semedo would reply, only to be met with a response of: “No, stay here and sleep with me. We’ll be footballers any way, we don’t need school!” It would often be 10am before Ronaldo joined him in class!
It was a really difficult area for a mum or dad to bring up their son to become a good person, Football saved me.
e said: ‘no, if you do I won’t see you any more. Your area’s difficult for you guys and you don’t have much help – they’ll have to put an extra bed here. You’ll stay here and we’ll share’.”
Because I’m the best player here’,” Semedo recounted Ronaldo saying. “‘They have to look after me for me to keep doing well. I like you so much I don’t want to lose you’.” In hindsight, Semedo is clear what that act of kindness did for him: “He changed my life