Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was never built for the classroom. Teachers saw him as distracted, impatient, even defiant. He couldn’t sit still, couldn’t stop moving his legs beneath the desk. Football wasn’t just his hobby — it was his heartbeat.
He clashed with teachers, and once, in a moment of frustration, he threw a chair after feeling mocked for his island accent. “I wasn’t there to study,” he later admitted with a grin. “I was there to play football.”
A Heart That Almost Stopped His Dream
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