Ronaldo Jr’s Big Day in Footyland…
In a cartoonish coming-of-age fairytale, Cristiano Ronaldo Jr., heir to the Portuguese football empire, made his international debut for the Portugal Under-15 squad as they trounced Japan like a sumo wrestler taking on a sushi roll — 4-1! The 14-year-old phenom tumbled onto the pitch wearing his dad’s magic no. 7 shirt and dribbled his way into the record books as his grandma Dolores cheered like a football Galileo witnessing a goal-shaped supernova.
Cristianinho, as he’s cheekily dubbed, is moonlighting as the future footballing wizard of Al-Nassr’s youth team in Saudi Arabia while dad, the footballing Hercules, stars in the senior squad. The two are an unstoppable football dynasty stretching from Lisbon to the land of sand dunes. Onlookers claim that young Ronaldo’s skills are so slick, even the ball gets dizzy from all the twists and turns.
After this mind-boggling match, Papa Ronaldo sent a 12-word whisper to the world via Instagram, showering his mini-me with fatherly pride and a sprinkle of football magic dust. Even though he’s not pushing his kid like a runaway rollercoaster, Cristiano Sr. believes every sprout should find its own beam of sunshine… or conquer its own corner kick, of course!
