Ronaldo can relaunch Italy – Brazil’s Ronaldo

Former Inter Milan and Brazil forward Ronaldo believes Juventus’ signing of Cristiano Ronaldo could lead Italian football back to the level it reached when he was still playing.

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Ronaldo, 41, lifted the UEFA Cup with Inter in 1998, a year after he won the first of two Ballons d’Or. He spent five injury-hit seasons with the club, scoring 49 goals in 68 games before moving to Real Madrid.

His spell in Italy coincided with a golden era for Serie A, which was regarded as one of the leading leagues in world football, attracting fellow Ballon d’Or winners such as Zinedine Zidane, Pavel Nedved and Andriy Shevchenko — and he believes another such era could be around the corner, with Juventus’ coup in signing the Portugal captain just the beginning.

“The arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo in Italy is a great thing because Italian football has not recently been going through a good moment and this signing could relaunch it,” he told Sky Sport Italia. “It needs to bounce back from a difficult situation and I hope the spectacle returns.”

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Ronaldo’s arrival could soon be followed by that of another Ballon d’Or candidate, with reports intensifying that Inter will sign Luka Modric.

Inter are keen to close the gap to Juve and, in such, are planning a big-name signing to aid them in their return to the Champions League.

“It’s a strange transfer window — let’s see what happens,” Ronaldo said. “I hope that this season, Inter achieve the goals they have set.

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“In terms of Modric, on the other hand, I don’t know if there really are negotiations underway between the two clubs. The market closes in a few weeks so let’s wait and see. All the top clubs are strengthening and Inter are up there.”

Ronaldo’s father, José Dinis Aveiro, died of an alcoholism-related liver condition at age 52 in September 2005 when Ronaldo was 20. Ronaldo has said that he does not drink alcohol, and he received libel damages over a Daily Mirror article that reported him drinking heavily in a nightclub while recovering from an injury in July 2008.

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Ronaldo became father to a son in June 2010, announcing that he had full custody of the child and would not be publicly revealing the identity of his son’s mother. In January 2015, Ronaldo announced his five-year relationship with Russian model Irina Shayk ended.

In June 2017, Ronaldo announced he had become the father to twins, a daughter Eva Maria and a son Mateo. Five months later, his girlfriend Georgina Rodríguez gave birth to their daughter Alana Martina.

Ronaldo has made contributions to various charitable causes throughout his career. Television footage of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami showed an eight-year-old boy survivor named Martunis wearing a number 7 Portuguese football shirt who was stranded for 19 days after his family was killed. Following this, Ronaldo visited Aceh, Indonesia, to raise funds for rehabilitation and reconstruction.

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After accepting undisclosed damages from a libel case against The Sun newspaper in 2008, Ronaldo donated the damages to a charity in Madeira. In 2009, Ronaldo donated £100,000 to the hospital that saved his mother’s life in Madeira following her battle with cancer, so that they could build a cancer centre on the island.

In support of the victims of the 2010 Madeira flood, Ronaldo pledged to play in a charity match in Madeira between Primeira Liga club Porto and players from Madeiran-based clubs Marítimo and Nacional.

In 2012, Ronaldo and his agent paid for specialist treatment for a nine-year-old Canarian boy with apparently terminal cancer.

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In November 2012, Ronaldo sold the golden boot he had won in 2011 for €1.5 million and gave the money to fund schools for children in Gaza.

 In December 2012, Ronaldo joined FIFA’s “11 for Health” programme to raise awareness amongst kids of how to steer clear of conditions including drug addiction, HIV, malaria and obesity.

In January 2013, Ronaldo became Save the Children’s new Global Artist Ambassador, in which he hopes to help fight child hunger and obesity. In March, Ronaldo agreed to be the ambassador for The Mangrove Care Forum in Indonesia, an organisation aiming to raise awareness of mangrove conservation.

In November 2014, Ronaldo appeared in FIFA’s “11 against Ebola” campaign with a selection of top football players from around the world, including Neymar, Gareth Bale, Xavi and Didier Drogba.

Under the slogan “Together, we can beat Ebola”, FIFA’s campaign was done in conjunction with the Confederation of African Football and health experts, with the players holding up 11 messages to raise awareness of the disease and ways to combat it.

He was named the world’s most charitable sportsperson in 2015.

In June 2016, Ronaldo donated the entirety of his €600,000 Champions League bonus after Real Madrid won the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League.

In August 2016, Ronaldo launched CR7Selfie, a selfie app for charity to help Save the Children that lets participants take a selfie with him in one of several different outfits and poses.

 In the app, fans can select from among 68 photos of Ronaldo in different outfits and poses, and scroll through 39 filters to apply to their selfies

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