They asked him about Cristiano Jr., and he did not hesitate to say that his son is a great kid, who will even go further than him. But when it came time to answer whether he saw the same drive in him, the silence said more than any words.
The comparison hurts because each of them had such a different childhood. At 16, Cristiano Jr. already has his first car, valued at around 285,000 dollars. At that same age, his father trained from dawn to dusk in Portugal with the bare minimum, driven solely by the need to get ahead.
“He is a bit bigger than I was when I was his age. He is stronger; I was smaller. I think he will be bigger than me. Hunger is the hardest thing”, he said about his son.
That is the dilemma every successful father faces: giving his son what he never had, without extinguishing the spark that made him great.