I watched Ronaldo lose his child and not one of you showed him mercy or protected a grieving father. He stayed silent & swallowed the pain. The only time he spoke was in an interview and you vultures tore into him.
This World Cup? I’m not taking any shenanigans.
Come for my GOAT without reason and you’ll be reasoning with your life. Touch him and face me. 🐐
Cristiano Ronaldo is the most influential footballer of all time.
Even if you score 100 hat-tricks, win 10 World Cups, claim 20 Ballons d’Or, and achieve everything in football, you’ll never match his influence.
Cristiano Ronaldo created football 🐐 ❤️
🚨🤍 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Yan Diomande emotional letter to his late sister:
"Dear Roxane,
Remember when somebody bought me a fake United jersey, and I wrote Ronaldo 7 on the back with the black marker?"
"We didn’t know rich or poor. We just knew happiness."
"Remember 25 people sleeping in one house back in Abidjan? Mum wanted to watch her soap operas. Everyone else wanted to watch movies. Remember how I always used to fake like I was asleep and then go into the TV room after midnight? I’d put the TV on real low. Just like 2 volume bars. I’d watch football in the dark and dream."
"Remember when the adults saw me playing football in the dirt and nicknamed me “Roberto Carlos” because of how hard I would shoot? And remember how I was secretly so mad about it, because CR7 was my idol?"
"Remember when I went to play so far from home? I was 9 years old. Inter Foot Sud Comoé, all the way near the Ghana border. Just a little boy on his own. I don’t know if I ever told you this story, but me and the other kids used to go into the village and steal potatoes because we were so hungry. We did a “bank heist.” Two kids distracting the shop owner, and 18 other kids running out with two potatoes. They weren’t even good. But they tasted amazing. Hahahah. It’s still my favorite thing to eat. Boiled potatoes with some oil. It reminds me of those times."
"Remember when I got my first real football boots, and I used to sleep with them? Growing up, I always played in those white plastic sandals. Even when I go back home now, I still play in them. It’s our tradition."
"Remember when I would come back home, and you would tell my friends from the neighborhood, “Why did you stop training? Yan is not going to buy you cars. You have to keep working."
"You were 10 years old, and already my agent."
"Remember how we used to sit and dream about moving to France? How we were going to go shopping and get our own apartment and I was going to be a rich footballer with cars and a big house, and you wouldn’t have to worry about nothing. You were the one who always believed that I could be the next Cristiano, when everybody else laughed."
"Remember when I moved to America for high school at 15, and I was so homesick? I didn’t know what anybody was saying for months. They sat me next to a French kid, and he tried to translate everything the teacher was saying. Remember when I called you, saying, “You won’t believe it, the kids here argue with teachers."
"Back home, you know we wouldn’t even dare to blink at our elders."
"Remember when I couldn’t believe the kids were smoking after school? You used to say it sounded like I was in an American TV show."
"Remember when they took me on trial at Bournemouth? At Chelsea, Rangers, Olympiacos, Crystal Palace? Eze and Olise even came up to me after one training and said, “Yo kid, you’re really good.”"
"But they still didn’t sign me."
"Even the B teams in the MLS didn’t want me. I didn’t even know why. They never gave me a reason. The adults handled everything. They just kept taking me all around Europe, and everybody kept saying no."
"My visa was up. My dream was over. They sent me back to Africa, and we cried together."
"You were the one who never stopped believing. A few weeks later, I signed for Leganés and we cried different tears."
"That was back when I used to have emotions. Now, I don’t feel anything. It’s like I’m not even human. Since you died, I’m just blank."
"I don’t even think I shed a tear the day they told me that you were gone. I was just in shock."
"It was a few weeks after I made my debut for Leganés. Who makes their debut at 18 against Real Madrid? It was too crazy. It was a dream."
"And then it was a nightmare. Someone kept calling me from back home. I was annoyed. I didn’t understand why they kept calling me."
"I picked up, and they didn’t even soften it. You know how it is back home. No emotions. Just……..
“Your sister is gone.”
“What?”
“She died.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Somebody put something in her drink at a party, and she never woke up. She is gone.”
"You were 15."
"15."
"I never got any answers. I don’t know if I want to know why. Maybe it was jealousy. Maybe it’s just something that happens in our country. Maybe I could have protected you. I don’t know."
"I try to trust God’s plan. It’s all I can do. I don’t try to forget, because I know I won’t forget. All I can do is use the pain to work harder, and to do everything we dreamed about."
"I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on. I will make sure that everybody knows your name. The whole world."
"Everything I do on a football pitch, it’s for you."
"So much has happened since I last saw you…… You would not even believe it. I don’t know if I believe it."
"You know what’s crazy? After my debut against Madrid, I actually swapped shirts with Mbappé. Remember when we used to watch him on TV, and you’d say, “Mbappé? Yeah, he’s good. But my brother is better.”
"I was wrong about one thing. I don’t want to be rich. I see what it does to people, even to family. When I was at Leganés, everything I was earning, I was sending home. It got to the point where I didn’t even want money anymore. It was just a burden. They never stopped asking. I guess they thought I was a millionaire already. I didn’t even have an apartment. I was living at the training ground in a room with no TV. Just football and sleep, football and sleep."
"I didn’t want a big house. I didn’t want cars. I just wanted to put everything into football. Everything to show the world that my sister was right……."
"Ha…. you will think this is funny. When I moved to play at RB Leipzig, I was always late. Well, not late. But I was on time, which in Germany means you’re very late."
"So you already know what I did next. I started arriving 90 minutes early to everything. I was so early all the time that the guys started calling me “The German.”"
"I always have to overdo everything. I have zero chill. You always said that."
"The pitch is the only place that I feel at home anymore. It’s the place where I feel calm, and I can speak to you. I just wish you were still here so I could tell you….. We did it."
"Everything you said came true."
"We’re leaving for the World Cup tomorrow. For real. Your brother is going to play for Côte d'Ivoire, like Drogba, like Yaya, like Gervinho."
"I don’t even look at it like a game. I look at it like a stage. This is my chance to show the whole world what you saw in me. Every time I score, I’ll make sure everybody knows your name. I’ll make sure they don’t forget you."
"You always said that I could be better than Cristiano. If I see him there, I’ll tell him hello for you."
"I’m going to do what you predicted, I swear. Before I even had real boots, you were telling everybody, “My brother is going to be the greatest in the world.”
"I will prove that you were right, or I will die trying... Your brother, Yan."
— @PlayersTribune
Messi should try and improve scoring with his head
Messi should learn to lose his markers in the box
Messi should learn to stay in the box when the cross comes in
Messi should work on his right foot, he is too predictable
Messi should be scoring from outside the box, even though he is a number 9
Messi is too short to play no. 9, his team should bench him
Messi completed 0 tackles the entire match as a no. 9
Messi failed to create big chances, tho we know he is a number 9 😂😂😂
This is how Messi fans sound to me when they talk about Ronaldo at 41---these zero football knowledge fanbase are expecting a striker (currently) to still play the exact same way he did when he was a winger and they don't realize how delusional that sounds😂
YOU WILL NEVER SEE ANY RONALDO FAN TELL YOU HOW THEY EXPECT MESSI TO PLAY, because Ronaldo fans have better ball knowledge and understand different football positions. ALSO, Ronaldo fans do not really care about Messi, so they don't even watch his occasional stinkers in MLS.
Messi fans hate me cause I'm that Ronaldo fan that mirrors their behaviour just-so they see how delusional they are to the rest of the footballing world 😂😂😂
Ronaldo is not being compared to Messi, Messi is the one being compared to Ronaldo. I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT RONALDO FANS DO NOT CARE ABOUT MESSI, but Messi fans can't live without talking about Ronaldo.
Ronaldo fans do not watch Messi, we do not follow him up or care about anything he's doing, it's not our business.
Messi fans are the ones always trying to force a debate because they can't stand the fact that the number of people who rate Ronaldo is wayyy more than the number of people who rate their Goat!
So they go around campaigning, attacking people on social media comment sections, or using their platforms to attack and demarket Ronaldo because they can't stand that the World talks more about Ronaldo than their darling, helpless, people-relying princess 😂😂😂
WHERE IS THE LIE???????
“Bruno Fernandes is a better United legend than Ronaldo because he gives his all week in week out in helping the club bottle two Europa league finals against Villarreal and Spurs while losing the ball that make spurs to score and helping the club finish 15th”
“Bruno deserves more respect than Ronaldo because we finished 3rd in the EPL and he broke the assist record”
i should hate on ronaldo that made me fall in love with the sport and this club over someone that has spent 6 years in the club with no result? 😂
e no go better for you and bruno fernandes 🙏🏽