”I have to thank my friend Albert Frantau for all my success. We played together in a team of youths. One day people from Sporting Lisbon came to a training session, they told us that they would watch a game of ours and that the player who scored the most goals between me and Albert would be the one who would sign for Sporting.
We won the match 3-0. I scored the first goal, Albert made the second. But the third goal was one that surprised everyone. My friend Albert went down the wing, stayed in front of the goalkeeper and, instead of scoring the goal, he passed it to me. I had to push it by myself. He could have easily scored the goal, but he decided to pass it to me. They accepted me in the Sporting youth academy. After the match, I went up to him and asked him why he didn't convert, to which he replied: 'Because you are better than me.'"
Some years later, a journalist found Albert Frantau's house, to ask him if the story was true. Albert confirmed it and also said that day was when he finished his football career. He told the journalist that he was unemployed. "But how can you have such a big and beautiful house and an almost new car? It looks like you support your family well," the journalist commented. To which Albert proudly replied: "All this is thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo." .
Definitely, a wonderful story, which says a lot about how good a person, how supportive and how good a friend, Cristiano Ronaldo is, a soccer star, today with Manchester United
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