María Dolores Aveiro worked tirelessly so that her children never lacked anything.
In Madeira, the family did not have much, but they had that woman holding everything together. Cristiano Ronaldo saw it up close, and as a child he promised himself that one day he would repay every sacrifice she had made.
“My mother is, without a doubt, a courageous mother. I feel very grateful and proud to be her son and to have her in my life”, said the Portuguese star about his mother.
In 2009, when he signed for Real Madrid, he kept his promise: he bought her a house in the Spanish capital valued at nearly 2 million pounds. Then came a Porsche for her birthday and a Mercedes-Benz for Mother’s Day.
A son who achieved success thanks to his mother’s sacrifice, and when the time came, he thanked her and gave her the life he had always wanted to give her.