Everyone who criticize the Portuguese Captain does so for his childish antics on the pitch. He throws a lot of tantrums on the pitch when he does not get his way or his team is losing.
Mads Timm, a former team mate of the real madrid man said Ronaldo has managed to survive in football because of his unwavering belief in himself.
“He’s completely indifferent to the collective side of the game,” Timm wrote in his biography Red Devil. “It was ‘me, me, me’. Today, after so much success, he can still get annoyed when one of his team mates scored instead of him”.
“Mentally, he reminds me of when I was a 12-year-old. I think he doesn’t care what people think of him and that’s one of the reasons why he has been able to survive in professional
football.”
But off the pitch the story is different, the former Manchester United attacker has donated to a lot of charities . In 2015 Ronaldo was announced as the winner of the Dosomething.org Athletes Gone Good in the process naming him the most charitable athlete on the planet.
South American Football site FAN10 reports that the 21st Century topscorer has offered to donate €3 million to Chapecoense, after the Brazilian football club’s first-team squad and staff were involved in a tragic plane crash.
Chapecoense were travelling to play in the final of the Copa Sudamericana against Medellin team Atletico Nacional when their charter plane
crashed in Cerro Gordo, Colombia on Tuesday morning.
This is not the first time Ronaldo has showed his other side which is very charitable.
Real Madrid’s star donated his boots and a signed jersey for a 10-month-old boy needing brain surgery. He also donated $83,000 to cover the operation and also offered to pay for
follow-up treatments at $8,000 a visit.
Ronaldo actively participated in fund raising campaign for the reconstruction of Aceh, Indonesia following the 2004 earthquake and
tsunami.
In 2008 he donated money to a charity in the Portuguese archipelago where he was born after he won a libel suit against a British tabloid.
A year later he gave more than $165,000 to fund a cancer center at the Portuguese hospital that treated his mother.
In 2012 the FIFA Ballon d’Or winner also helped a nine-year old Canaria native who was suffering from cancer of the spine.
In 2012, he sold the Golden Boot he won in 2011 for €1.5million to donate the funds to Palestinian school children in Gaza. He is also involved in FIFA’s ’11 for Health which aims to
raise awareness to children regarding drug addiction, HIV and obesity.
After an earthquake in Nepal killed over 8,000 people last year, Ronaldo donated £5million to the latter to help their aid efforts in the country.
According to Pipi Estrada, the world’s most famous Athlete donated his 2015/16 Champions League winning bonus of €600,000 to good causes.
“My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double,” Ronaldo said in 2013. “And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.”
He might have a 12 year old’s mentality when on the pitch but surely the Real Madrid star has a heart of gold.
