The 8-hour flight on the 2,516 km journey from Turin to Madeira is probably the longest time in Cristiano Ronaldo’s life. And that was also the time when the greatest player on the planet felt useless, as he could only sit and pray while his mother was in critical condition.

Luckily, after meeting his mother in the hospital, the 35-year-old superstar said that “my mother is stable and recovering.” The stroke could not defeat Dolores Aveiro, Ronaldo’s mother. Similarly, cancer also faltered before her fierce fighting ability. It was first discovered in 2007 and Dolores was the winner. In early 2019, it returned. Once again she struggled with extraordinary strength.

If Ronaldo is famous for his determination to grow from a skinny boy in Madeira into a great superstar, then he certainly inherited that quality from his mother.

Ronaldo beamed with his mother Dolores.

Since the age of 6, Dolores has lost her mother. She was then separated from her siblings and placed in a hospice. There, she lived in loneliness and missed her parents. Interspersed were terrible punishments for those who wet the bed or were mischievous, including having their eyelashes plucked, weeding for hours in the sun, or having their heads covered with a bag.

Then one day, her father also appeared and took her back home. But Dolores doesn’t know that the nightmare has just begun. In the previous house, there now appears a stepmother, always armed with a whip to beat her husband’s stepson. For a long time, she ate more whipping than she ate dinner.

Dolores ran away many times but was brought back by the police. Actually, the father and stepmother were not happy when their daughter returned. Later, they even took Dolores to see a psychiatrist in the hope of getting a certificate to send her to a center for the disabled. However, the doctor did not comply with their wishes.

Then at the age of 13, Dolores was dropped out of school, stayed home and made wicker baskets. That’s why she soon fell in love with the romantic neighbor boy Dinis Aveiro. The marriage took place when she was 18 years old and from then on, her father threw her out of the house forever.

In every glorious moment, Ronaldo wants to share it with his mother.

At an age when other girls her age were going to school, Dolores was busy with her two children while waiting for her husband to return from the war in Africa. When Dinis Aveiro completed his military service, sadly, he was no longer the same Dinis Aveiro as before. Instead, he was a drunkard who spent all day making up with his old comrades.

To make money, she went to France to work as a laborer. But my income is not much better, plus I miss my children. She returned to Madeira and soon gave birth to her third child. So from dawn to dusk, she worked tirelessly to support her family with five mouths to feed.

The task was of course overwhelming, yet Dolores became pregnant with her fourth child. She thought this was more of a disaster than a gift. So she boiled dark beer and drank it, then ran until she was exhausted so that the fetus could be damaged. But it’s not broken. And she had to go to the doctor. This person refused, along with a warning that the law prohibits abortion.

9 months passed, the child was born, weighing 4 kg. It was Ronaldo who later saved his family from poverty and entered a life for the upper class that they never dared to dream of.

On the path to becoming a superstar, CR7 had a great contribution from his mother Dolores.

However, on CR7’s path to becoming a superstar, there was a huge contribution from his mother Dolores. In addition to encouraging her youngest son to pursue his passion, she is also willing to intervene for his benefit. Like when he was 10 years old and faced with choosing a training center, she was determined that it had to be Nacional with better facilities than Maritimo. Later, she was also the one to terminate the contract with Veiga’s representative, leading to a cooperation agreement with Jorge Mendes, who played a significant role in raising Ronaldo’s level.

Ronaldo always appreciates the sacrifices of his mother, whom he loves very much. Over the years, he tried to help her enjoy and make up for her painful past.

He took her around the world on private jets, gave her expensive cars, put her in the most beautiful and luxurious resorts or beaches, and always called to remind her to take her medicine. Right now, he is ready to stand side by side with his mother in the fight against illness.

She fought alone all her life. Now she has Ronaldo.