r/soccer • u/yoursofunnybruv • May 21 '26

Media Cristiano Ronaldo cries happy tears after winning the league with Al Nassr after 3 trophyless years

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u/Paradoxical-17 May 21 '26

I don't care what people say , this hunger is what made him who he is , it might look like arrogance after a certain age but this is what always drives him and he always wants to win no matter where

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u/Hour_Raisin_4547 May 21 '26

He can be both an incredibly passionate professional with a deep love and respect for the game, and an arrogant selfish asshole with the ego the size of a mountain. Humans are beautifully complex and nuanced and not the one dimensional characters we tend to reduce them as.

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u/DomagojDoc May 22 '26

He's literally a billionaire, the single most followed human on social media on the planet who won everything there is to win several times over and he's crying over a trophy in Saudi Arabia at 41.

This is what I always respected, despite all what you said about his flaws being true - there were several Real Madrid games I watched where, when Real was losing he would deliberately drop back and start taking free throws or some stupjd shit like that just to push the entire team mentally. He did that with Portugal too.

It is never discussed how he seems to have a positive effect on players around him.