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Amusing description of Cristiano Ronaldo

Dec 30, 2004
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Barney Ronay in today's Guardian:
Ronaldo is often portrayed as a kind of android-warrior, a muscle dummy filled with hair-gel and topped with a sneering robot head-thump engine.
That did make me chuckle. It's not a hatchet job at all, though: it's about how the human element still transcends the mega-money and general cynicism in the game, with Ronay's next sentence being:
But this is of course to deny the basic beauty of his story, the skinny kid from Madeira who just loved kicking a ball and now in his mature splendour communicates that same enduring pleasure.
The whole thing is well worth a read: https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -principle