Why no one likes Cristiano Ronaldo
First, let me revise my title, because not everyone dislikes Cristiano Ronaldo. Just throw 40 or 50 unprovoked snide comments into a forum and you’ll see that some people actually respect the guy for his quick feet, moderate talents and insatiable appetite for trying to make the “Top 10 step-overs” highlight reel. “Ronaldo’s a great player,” they’ll say, “so leave him alone.”
Maybe. But at Manchester United he’s a midfielder that dances too much to deliver the ball with any consistency and for Portugal he’s a forward that can’t get through World Cup defenses by himself. The fans at this year’s Cup are reluctant to embrace or even praise the kid, and everyone’s got a joke to make when during the slow motion replays of his scowls.
It’s not the hair. If the sheer logistics and personal investment required for Ronaldo’s original new look, the “Backstreet Boy Mullett,”(All boy band in the front, all-unnecessary in the back) aren’t impressive, the time commitment required to sculpt your scalp to this level of immobility (including an anti-gravity spritz for the neck hair, I’m guessing) must be.
And it’s not the pouting. People embrace pouters, rallying around them when the chips are down. I would know; I used to be one. Like Ronaldo, I have been frustrated with my play when the stakes were high. When Mr. Cutting’s 4th grade class took on Mrs. Coe’s 5th grade class during lunch recess and our star player Jeff, who could kick the ball with his right AND left foot went down with a bone protruding from his arm (5th graders to this day claim it was a dive), all eyes turned to me. I had orchestrated our previous strategy (get the ball to Jeff) and executed it flawlessly, so I was next in line to lead the team.
I didn’t have any ideas and as our 9-3 lead quickly became an 11-8 nail-biter, I decided the best way to hold out the last 9 minutes of our 30 minute recess was to complain as much as possible and grimace whenever my team lost the ball. We won 16-15 and I learned the motivational value of acting like you’re personally disgusted with pretty much everything that doesn’t go your way.
Ronaldo has learned that lesson too. You can see after almost every play that doesn’t end in a goal that he’s trying to communicate a simple message to his coach. “Get 10 better players around me and better refs and I’ll take this team to a championship!” It’s that kind of determination that was so inspirational to me as a fourth grader, I just didn’t know it yet.
I also channeled Ronaldo in other areas of my life. Ronaldo and I both understand that complaining of sore muscles, or other injuries, is a free pass to almost anything, and while I used my excuses to get a few minutes out of class in the nurses office, Ronaldo uses his to get a few days off from practice.
What I’m trying to say here, is that Ronaldo is simply growing through life at a slightly slower pace than the rest of us and right now he’s somewhere around grade four or five on the field. It’s not his fault, and his tantrums are exactly that. One day he will age, slow down, limit his over the ball and stop juking like he’s in a Nike commercial to pass back to his keeper. We can all root for him then, and marvel at how much better he makes his teammates because he’s so dangerous on the ball. He’ll score a lot of goals, win a lot of games and make a lot of money. It will be kind of like now except that though he may not look like he’s out there having fun, we may be able to root for him.
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