What if I cling to my mother’s skirt?
Before getting involved with his current girlfriend and giving birth to children, Cristiano Ronaldo had a 5-year relationship with beauty Irina Shayk. One of the reasons why the Portuguese superstar decided to break up with the supermodel born in 1986 was his mother – Maria Dolores Aveiro. Shayk couldn’t stand the situation of “living with her mother-in-law”, and then had to glare at each other all day.
The conflict between the mother-in-law and the “half-hearted daughter-in-law” reached a climax in the early days of 2015. Shayk was then accused of saying rude words to Mrs. Dolores. That is something Ronaldo cannot accept. For the Portuguese striker, his mother is a “forbidden zone” that no one is allowed to violate. So, the talented couple went their separate ways. After the breakup, Shayk appeared before the media and called her ex-boyfriend a “child clinging to his mother’s skirt”.
Up to now, even though he is about to reach the “forty-decade” threshold, Ronaldo is still living in the same house with his mother. In an interview in 2021, when being criticized by a reporter for “clinging to his mother”, CR7 stated clearly: “My mother gave me this life. She raised me and sacrificed her whole life.” for our brothers. She would rather endure hunger and cold, but absolutely would not let us go to bed on an empty stomach.”
Ronaldo and a peaceful moment with his mother
Ronaldo affirmed: “As long as I am alive in this world, my mother will always be by my side. It’s not that she lives thanks to me, but I need my mother to rely on. I will always live with my mother. I want my teacher.” educate her children, the same way she raised and loved us brothers and sisters.” Also because of his birth, before Irina Shayk, Ronaldo said goodbye to many other ghosts.
Dolores is a “Female Power”
In football, every time Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are compared, people mention the two concepts “intelligence” and “intelligence”. M10 is a type of player with “enlightenment” – meaning talent bestowed by God. And CR7 belongs to the “intellectual” type of player – meaning that thanks to the will to strive hard and tirelessly strive to become talented.
But compared to his great mother, Ronaldo’s efforts are nothing. At the age of 5, Dolores lost her mother. Her irresponsible father – CR7’s grandfather – hastily pushed his four young children into the hospice to move on. Because the sisters were separated, little Dolores at that time tried many times to escape the nuns’ management to find them. The consequences of those “hurdle crossings” were whippings “from shore to field”.
Mrs. Dolores is a woman with extraordinary strength
When Dolores was 9 years old, she was sent home for being “stubborn and unteachable”. So from the “hell on earth” in the hospice, she entered another period of suffering. Dolores was only educated until she was 13 years old, then her stepmother and father forced her to stay home to take care of her younger siblings. Even though she had to get up at 5 a.m. to do housework and take care of her younger siblings, Dolores still couldn’t please the adults in the house. She had to continuously endure beatings that left traces on her body to this day.
At the age of 18, Dolores married a husband named Jose Dinis Aveiro, and from then on entered another tragic phase of her life. At first, Dolores’s married life was very happy, her husband loved his wife and children very much. But after joining the army and experiencing many wars in Africa, Jose Dinis Aveiro became obsessed with war. He often drank alcohol to relieve his sadness, leaving his wife to struggle to make a living to “raise four children with one husband”. Then cirrhosis also took her husband’s life, causing Dolores to become a widow at a young age.
A life of hardship for children & resilience in fighting illness
After her husband died, Dolores worked like crazy, accepting all kinds of jobs as long as she had money to send her children to school. She took on weaving wicker baskets, carving handicrafts, cleaning toilets, porting, and working as a kitchen assistant at a hotel… There were days when she had to stay up all night to complete the extra work. Go to work in the morning.
Ronaldo grew up thanks to the guidance of Mrs. Dolores
However, the sight of having four children under her arm made her family’s life impossible to raise. Ronaldo’s entire family still has to receive relief supplies from social organizations and Ronaldo and his siblings can only eat rice and meat once every 2 weeks.
Then Ronaldo’s three siblings, Hugo, Elma and Katia, all had to struggle from an early age to devote all their efforts to “investing” in their younger brother who was considered a promising football talent. To encourage her son to play football with peace of mind, Mrs. Dolores never complained in front of him. She always takes advantage of all her free time to go to the field to watch her son play football, promptly giving him advice… It can be affirmed that a mother is the woman who casts the biggest shadow on life. Ronaldo’s life.
Even when Ronaldo has become the world’s top soccer star, Dolores is still suffering. In 2007, she discovered for the first time that she had breast cancer. So Ronaldo’s wonderful mother once again had to fight against fate in her life. Dolores had to undergo several surgeries. The extraordinary efforts and will of the mother of four children beat cancer away for a long time, until it returned to torment her in 2019.
Ronaldo’s happy family
In recent years, Dolores’s health has become increasingly weaker. In 2021, she experienced a stroke. However, that cannot defeat a “strong woman” like Dolores. She fought to regain her life, trained hard, and now she still has enough strength to walk and support Ronaldo in taking care of and educating his children.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Dolores has had an extraordinary career and deserves to be called a “heroic female”. Among them, the greatest achievement of her life is her son Ronaldo – a player who has won 5 Golden Balls and is considered the best player in contemporary world football.
