Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates but who really is responsible for his success?
Yes that is it, in every great man living or that had lived on this earth there is a myth.
Nevertheless, never let the truth get in the way of a good story, they say, and in the case of Albert Fantrau and his influence on the career of Cristiano Ronaldo, there is no better example to it.
It is a well-worn tale of limited information and evidence, and while the quotes associated with the story have been repeated a number of times, the inconsistencies only add to the skepticism as the beautiful game plays on.
For those unfamiliar with Albert Fantrau and his claim to fame, here is a basic summary of what it's all about. Apparently, things could have been very different for Ronaldo, but his big break came as a result of a square ball from team-mate Albert Fantrau, which gave the young Ronaldo the opportunity to score his second of the game. His goals earned him a place at Sporting Lesbon academy, and Fantrau became the forgotten man, or did he?
The story suggests that had Fantrau taken his chance in front of goal, he would have been rewarded with a move to the Sporting Lesbon club academy, rather than Ronaldo. He claimed to have passed the ball to Ronaldo as he believed the future star was better than him and deserved his chance.
Alberto Fantrau never made a career for himself in the game, but earned a lavish lifestyle through Ronaldo remembering that day and sharing his success with his former team mate in return for that square ball.
It all sounds prettily well like Hollywood movies, and that's because it is prettily much so, just as the saying goes that one turn deserves another. As a story for the football romantics within us all, we want it to be true. We want to believe Alberto Fantrau is rewarded for his selfless act, and we want to believe that Ronaldo for all his glory and success, remembers those that helped him on the way to the top. It is a well-worn story that applies to many walks of life, but in reality, the hard facts are that it simply does not add up as such in often times in life.
Ronaldo has enjoyed success for both club and country
So let's look at the claim in details:
It all started in an interview in which Ronaldo said: “I have to thank my old friend Albert Fantrau for my success. We played together for the same team in the U-18 championship. When Sporting Lisbon‘s manager came to see us he said that:
“Who ever score’s more goals will join our academy!”
Ronaldo continues: “We won that match 3-0. I scored the first goal, then Albert scored the second with a great header. But the third goal was impressive for all of us. Albert was 1 on 1 against the goalkeeper, he skillfully went past the goalkeeper and I was running in front of him. All he had to do was to score, but he passed the ball to me and I scored the third goal , and I went to the Sporting Lisbon academy. After the match I met him and I asked him, ”Why?” and he said, “You are better than me”.
Lovely, isn't it? Yes. And the truth of that singular act is that Ronaldo went on to become one of the greatest footballers of all times, and Fantrau was lost to the game.
However, he allegedly came to prominence once Ronaldo had told the story, and inevitably the press and media tracked him down for his take on the tale. The story continues that Fantrau confirmed the claims, and then explained the reason for his apparent luxurious lifestyle in one word – “Ronaldo”.
"It was a true story." "Yes." He confirmed. He also said that his career as a player ended soon after the match and he is now unemployed.
Just then a journalist noticed that Albert was living a luxurious life. The journalist immediately popped the question, “But how did you afford this spectacular house and this great car? You seem like a rich man. From where did this come from?”
Then what happened, was what shocked all the people gathered there!
Albert proudly replied: “It is all because of Ronaldo.”
This is a shocking story of CR7 which only a few may know about..
Yes, in reality, certain words and sentences must have been distorted on the storyline over the passage of time inevitably when they are being repeated over and over again over the years and that might as well makes the story more illogical to present realities and circumstances. And that is a more logical reason the story belongs to football mythology.
Ronaldo and Fantrau may well have played together as kids, they would have had scouts watching their games, their performances and they might have decided Ronaldo and Fantrau's future as both had progressed and developed as talented young players over the time or the basis of that match particularly was just to pick one out of their two as both might have probably been the best out of the rest of their team mates and the highest goal scorer among the two of them might probably be the determining factor that the Sporting Lesbon scout was probably looking for or more as the argument ranges on.
Yes, the basics of the storyline inevitably exist, but the romances of it does not really tally with the present human reality and mentality and that is why from across all fields of life they had heaped so much encomiums on the human personality of the World football legend Cristiano Ronaldo.
We all have celebrity stories and experiences that we can reflect upon and tell. However, when we think back to such moments, we only remember small parts of them, and then fill in the blanks. Repeatedly telling a story adds to the distortion, with special emphasis on the moments we want to remember, and an avoidance of the parts that we want to forget. Think about it, if you had played alongside one of the greatest footballers of all time as a kid, wouldn't you want to tell a story about it?
Cristiano Ronaldo will be remembered as one of the greatest of all times and to a very small portion of him but significant because Rinaldo made it to be so we shall as well remember Fantrau.
He once played alongside Cristiano Ronaldo, and a story made up of small parts of the time of his childhood has now evolved into the myth we debate today. Ronaldo may have remember him or he may not, he may have helped him out financially or he may have not.
What no one cannot certainly confirm for sure is whether Ronaldo's future was decided by that singular action of Fantrau when he found himself through on one on one on goal but decided to give that only crucial chance of life to his best friend to take it and go while he stayed behind.
The Cristiano Ronaldo's legendary football folktale dictates only one big moral value that it impact in all of us as humans, and that is the true spirit of appreciation as displayed by both men either by Fantrau in the past or Ronaldo till present. For Fantrau will remain associated with Ronaldo forever for just that singular act of that day as long as Ronaldo's story lives on forever because Ronaldo made it to be so.
The story has been repeated and debated so many times, though the inconsistency and the limited information about the story serves only to dismiss logic.
However, the spirit of good will that associated with the story most especially coming from one of the greatest player ever of the modern game tells us how much desperate this game of our life truly is in need of such romances and emotions, and until the myth is exposed for what it really is, we can still indulge ourselves in this moment of football fantasy, so play on.
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