Cristiano Ronaldo has never pretended to be a perfect man, but is it time to draw the line between exemplary athlete and one fighting rape allegations?
“This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.”
— Don Draper, Mad Men
My GPA was wobbling between both sides of 7. I was sixteen years old and, for me, upper comprehensive school was merely a place to meet friends. Not to study or learn things I couldn’t care about had my life depended on them. Then — one evening — my father asked me: “My son, why you keep underperforming at school? Why you keep getting kicked out of class?” He had a theory in mind: I idolised Ronaldo so much that I didn’t care to put in the work at school. I mean, after all, Ronaldo himself had ceased studying by the age of 14, and the way he treated representatives of authority was sometimes appalling.
I didn’t say a word back then. However, I felt incinerated inside.