Do you know Ronaldo's father was an alcoholic, this one incident changed his life
Cristiano’s father José Dinis Aveiro served the Portuguese Army and fought two wars in Angola and Mozambique.
It was the war in Angola in 1975 that changed Jose Dinis’ life.
After the lost war, he came back to Portugal as a broken man both mentally and financially.
Back home, the country was drained out economically due to the multiple wars they fought.
There were no jobs across the country and Jose Dinis remained unemployed for a long time.
It was at that time that alcoholism gripped the man which eventually led to his death at the age of 51 in 2005 due to Liver Failure.
Ronaldo’s father never got to see his son becoming one of the greatest footballers in the world and that is a regret the player still has.
In an interview he had mentioned, “I really don’t know my father 100 per cent. He was alcoholic.
I never spoke with him, like a normal conversation. It was hard. To be the number one and he don’t see nothing, and he don’t see me receive awards, to see what I became.”
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