ABOUT CRISTIANO RONALDO

 

DEDICATION 

I dedicate this book to Christiano Ronaldo Dos Santos Aveiro and every self-motivator out there.

       TABLE OF CONTENT

• INTRODUCTION

• CHAPTER 1: THE EARLY LIFE OF DEREK

• CHAPTER 2: HIS CAREER AT SPORTING LISBON

• CHAPTER 3: HIS CAREER AT MANCHESTER UNITED 

• CHAPTER 4: HIS CAREER AT REAL MADRID 

• CHAPTER 5: HIS CAREER AT JUVENTUS

• CHAPTER 6: HIS CAREER AT MANCHESTER UNITED (COMEBACK)

• CHAPTER 7:SOME OF HIS  PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

• CHAPTER 8: SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

Dreams are great. Dreams are necessary for life or no one would ever go anywhere. But a dream without a goal, and actions, has no opportunity to come true.

Denzel Washington had it that “No man is born to this world without a perfect dream from God. Most times it is okay to dream big but planning big help the dream to become big”

It is okay to fail once, twice but it is not okay to GIVE UP, you need to try it again and again until you get a positive result.

On 29 March 1975, Denzel Washington the American popular actor was flaunted out of college because of his low CGP but he did not give up, he fell through it and fought back and today he is one of the most successful actors in the world with thousands of academic awards.

Jack Ma applied to Harvard University 10 times and was rejected in that 10 consecutive times. He never gave up, he fell through it and tried it again and again until he got it and today, he is one of the best businessmen in the world. He was also rejected after applying for a job 30 times but today, he has more than 50 employees working under him.

This book is about a young boy named Derek, a young talented footballer who was disliked in his community, schools, and neighborhood and was told that nothing good will ever come out of his life. He felt bad, struggled his way to the top with a high level of hard work, and in the end, he was victorious.

CHAPTER 1

The Early life of Derek

Derek Collins was born in the soa Pedro parish of Funchal, the capital of the Portuguese island of Madeira, and grew up in the nearby parish of Santo Antonio. 

He is the fourth and youngest child of Flora Collins, a cook, and Daniel Collins, a municipal gardener and part-time kit man.

His great grandmother on his father’s side, queen, was from the island of Sao Vicente, Cape Verde. He has one older brother, Victor, and two older sisters, Mary and Vivian.

Derek’s mother revealed that she wanted to abort Derek due to poverty, his father’s alcoholism, and having too many children already, but her doctor refused to perform the procedure. Derek grew up in an impoverished catholic home, sharing a room with all his siblings. He washed people’s cars to make a living. Things were very hard and terrible as they had no one to help them. Derek lost his father at a tender age and the pain was so severe yet he was working hard to keep the family going each day.

Derek had a very optimistic passion for football and he decided to take it upon himself but there was no one to help him, as a child Derek played for Andorinha from 1992 to 1995, where his father was the kit man, and later spent two years with Nacional. In 1997, aged 12, he went on a three-day trial with sporting cp, who signed him for a fee of $1,500. He subsequently moved from Madeira to Alcochete, near Lisbon, to join a sporting youth academy.

By aged 14, Derek believed he could play semi-professionally and agreed with his mother to cease his education to focus entirely on football.

While popular with other students at school, he had been expelled after throwing a chair at his teacher, who he said had disrespected him. 

One year later, Derek was diagnosed with tachycardia, a condition that could have forced him to give up playing football. Derek underwent heart surgery where a laser was used to cauterize multiple cardiac pathways into one, altering his resting heart rate. He was discharged from the hospital hours after the procedure and resumed training a few days later.

Derek dedicated his whole time and life to football. His class teacher once told him that he would not make it in football but Derek kept working hard towards his future. Despite his poor background and the pains in his family, Derek was always positive about his life and future.

CHAPTER 2

HIS CAREER AT SPORTING LISBON 

At age 16, Little Derek was promoted from the sporting youth team by his manager who was impressed with his dribbling and goal-scoring strength.  He subsequently became the first player to play for the clubs under 16, under 17, and 18 teams, the B team, all within a single season. 

Little Derek was so excellent with a ball in and outside the pitch. He was so focused on his course and was hard working more than any other player on the team.

A year later, Derek made his debut in the Primeira Liga, against Braga, and on 7 October, he scored two goals against Moreirense in their 3-0 win.

Derek was so good with a ball that within a short period, numerous coaches from England's big teams were looking for a possible way to sign him.

Throughout the 2002-2003 seasons, his representative suggested Derek to Liverpool's manager; Barcelona president, and also Arsenal were interested in signing Derek.

Manchester United manager was determined to acquire Derek on a permanent move urgently. The initial plan of the Manchester United team was to sign Derek and loan him back to Sporting for a year. Having been impressed by the manager and the player of Manchester United for his credible football style, dribbling, and scoring, the manager was urged to sign him and keep him in the team and this signing was considered in the history of football as one of the best signings. It was said by the manager that Derek is one of the most exciting young players he had ever seen.

Derek was never forgotten at sporting Lisbon and all the teams that he has featured in and he was celebrated as one of their best players.

Everything started working well for Derek. The once poor boy turns a rich footballer and was never at any time become proud, rather he was still working hard to achieve a lot in his football career.

CHAPTER 3

HIS CAREER AT MANCHESTER UNITED

2003 Derek moved to Manchester united, At Manchester, Derek's success and his football career were becoming more exciting. Derek in the history of football became the first Portuguese player to sign for Manchester united. He became at that time the most expensive teenager in English football history.

Derek kept making the people proud with his excellent style of football. He became more motivated when he was given the jersey number 7 instead of the 28 he requested for.

Before this time Derek was an unknown person. His teacher even told him that he can’t make it in football and also remember how his mother wanted to abort him but hard work and self-motivation brought Derek to England, Manchester United, one of the biggest teams in the world.

On 16 August 2003, Derek received a standing ovation when he came on to play. His performance earned praise from the best, who hailed it as “undoubtedly the most exciting debut “he had ever seen.

Derek was on all sports newspapers, televisions, and radio all over the world. Commentators never stop hailing him for his credible football style and were predicted that he would become a world-class player. As a result of his performance, he amassed a host of personal awards for the season. He won so many titles for himself and the team.

Derek was unmatched at Manchester United, England, and the whole world. He was at his peak and was very professional with football. Many loved football because of Derek.

You can’t be angry seeing him playing, he gave fans joy while playing. He made his family, country, fans, late father, and friends so proud. I remembered when he won his first premier league title at Manchester United, he brought his mum and dedicated the trophy to her and his joy was so overwhelmed.

Derek was not just the best player at Manchester United but he also became the first best player in the world being produced by Manchester united and his wages were upgraded to $ 120,000 a week.

Derek achieved everything at Manchester United; he helped them to win almost all their biggest trophies. His career at Manchester United was very successful.

CHAPTER 4

HIS CAREER AT REAL MADRID

Derek was open to any challenge in football as he was mentally, and physically ready; to prepare to toil around the world, and send messages to people that GIVING UP IN LIFE IS NEVER THE BEST SOLUTION.

2009 Derek joined Real Madrid for a world-record transfer fee at that time; of $80million ($94million).his net worth was $11 million per year and contained 1 billion buyout clauses. At least 80,000 fans including his class teachers attended his presentation at the Santiago stadium with a standing ovation.

Derek's career at real Madrid was fantastic. It was real Madrid that he knew that he was a superstar and that he would shine his light everywhere.

Derek was never tired to score up to 60-plus goals each season throughout his stays at Madrid. He won numerous trophies including champion league titles, Liga titles, ballon dor, individual trophies, etc. Derek was breaking records every time he plays. Undoubtedly he was compared to the likes of Pele, Maradona, kaka, Ronaldhino, and another great player before him but the bitter truth was that Derek was better than all of them. He later became the highest-paid player in football. Concurrently with his achievements, Derek enjoyed his greatest team success in Spain as he helped Madrid in winning almost all the titles playing in. Derek's career at Real Madrid was the best in his football career.

CHAPTER 5

HIS CAREER AT JUVENTUS

Derek accepted a new challenge in his football career and this time was Juventus. He became the only player that has won titles on every team that he has played at.

Despite months of negotiating to sign a new Real Madrid contract, on 10 July 2018, Derek signed a four-year contract with Italian club Juventus after completing a $ 100million transfer.

0n 10 February, he scored in a 3-0 win against a team in their league and also set his team's dream alive by scoring a hat trick against Athletico Madrid and other goals and trophies he won at Juventus.

30 years was not bad for Derek as he was still performing credibly well. He won numerous titles for Juventus and also came out as their highest goal scorer 2 times.

At Juventus Derek had a nice time, he never stop helping his team to win trophies. He was still professional, hard-working, and was still running like a little boy despite he was 30 years plus.

Undoubtedly, DEREK is the world's best player of our time.

CHAPTER 6

HIS MANCHESTER UNITED COMEBACK

After a successful 3 years at Juventus, Derek decided to go back to his root, where he started his professional career as a professional player.

On 27 August 2021, Manchester United announced they had reached an agreement with Juventus to resign from Derek. It was a great joy to Manchester United fans and their players, the whole England team was shivering that their tormentor is back in England. I was very happy to hear his comeback despite that I was an Arsenal fan.

Despite his age, he was still active and still playing good football. He made his first comeback game on 11 September and scored two goals in a 4 -1 victory against Newcastle united.

He was 36 years and was still running like a 25 years player, he was scoring goals in and out on each game played.

He single-handedly too Manchester united to the champion league and due to the poor tactic of his teammate, they were removed from the race.

Derek never gave up on a time, every day to him was to set up history and make things right, he motivated all the young players around.

In his short time at Manchester United he was named 3 times Manchester United player of the month, 2 time’s premier league best player, Manchester united the best player and other numerous individual titles he had.

Manchester United did not record any goals without him in the squad but all the games that he was involved in were either won or the game will end in a draw.

Derek was the real definition of football. His mentality was the best. The spirit of not giving up on him made him who he is today.

It was always privileged watching him playing and YES, he was THE GREATEST FOOTBALLER IN THE HISTORY OF FOOTBALL.

CHAPTER 7

HIS PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

Derek had numerous uncountable professional and individuals awards some of them are

• The highest goal scorer in the history of football in all competitions.

• International best player and highest goal scorer

• Footballer of the year

• Player of the year

• Champion league winner (5)

• Golden boot winner (5)

• FIFA club world cup winner (4)

• World cup participant (4)

• Euro participant (4)

• UEFA super cup winner (3)

• UEFA best player in Europe (3)

• English champion (3)

• Italian super cup winner (2)

• Spanish cup winner (2)

• TM player of the season (2)

• Striker of the year (2)

• Best FIFA men player (2)

• English FA runner up(2)

• Europa cup

• Nation cup

• FIFA Puskas award etc

Derek won numerous titles that books are not enough to contain. Yeah, he was a great player.

GREATEST OF ALL TIME (GOAT)

CHAPTER 8

SUMMARY

Derek was not just successful in his football career but was known everywhere in the world. He was so rich that he gave out his signed jersey and money to the needy, donated blood to people, and saved many lives.

He was loved, respected, and admired by all; he motivated many young players and helped them to achieve their goals.

YOU SEE,

Life will be hard on you, things will be bad, situations will slam you hard on your face, they will put you in mud, you will be disgraced, disappointed, hated and many will reject you but HEY! You are a star. No matter what comes your way, always know that YOU'RE A STAR. 

You may be going on a lot in your life today BUT YOU ARE A STAR

Things may be so hard on you BUT YOU ARE A STAR

Your friends, mother, father, and relatives are all gone BUT YOU ARE A STAR. The world is waiting for you; the world is waiting to announce you just as Derek was announced.

 STOP CRYING, STOP THE BLAMING GAMES, STOP LOOKING BACKWARD, FALL THROUGH IT, WAKE UP, BE MOTIVATED, AND START THAT JOURNEY AGAIN TO GREATNESS.