Story this Wednesday!

"VALUE THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU THAT HELPED YOU)."
CHRISTIANO RONALDO ( Attributed to him)
When he received one of his awards recently, Ronaldo dedicated it to a certain … Alberto Fantrau. Then said: “Yes I am a great footballer and all my success is thanks to my friend Alberto” People looked at each other and said, “Who is this Mr. Fantrau?“*Albert Fantrau actually was his friend at the Sporting Lisbon.


Then Ronaldo went on: “We played together in a youth team. When Sporting of Lisbon recruiters came to observe us, they told us that the striker who scored the most goals will be recruited into the sports academy.

That day we won 3-0. I scored the first goal and then Albert scored the 2nd with the head. And then the 3rd goal was the one that impressed everyone. Alberto started from the wing, then found himself face to face with the keeper, dribbled the goalkeeper and all he had to do was push the ball into the empty goal. In the meantime I was running to his side. And instead of shooting into the empty goal, Alberto decided to pass the ball to me and I scored. This is how I find myself at the Sporting Lisbon Academy. After the game I went to him, and asked him “why did you do that?” And he replied, “Because I know that you are better than I”


Curious to know more, the journalists began to investigate and were able to meet this Alberto Fantrau to ask him if the story told by Ronaldo is true, and he confirmed it, adding that his career as a footballer ended after this match as it was the only opportunity to become professional and since that time he has remained unemployed.
*However, journalists, observing his luxurious house and his Mercedes parked in the garage asked Alberto “but being unemployed how could you have such a house and car and living so luxuriously? You seem rather comfortable physically ” Alberto’s answer: “All that? .. is Ronaldo*
Moral of this story:
*Let us ask ourselves the following question: How many of us have ever done something like Ronaldo and Alberto? On the contrary, many of us show the opposite of this story showing selfishness and ingratitude to their mates.*
Friends! Let’s help each other so that we are proud of the success of our brothers / sisters / friends / relatives.
And when we help a person succeed, the latter must never forget those who contributed to this success in his life.


My Opinion:This Story should be read as a 'Kahani' , 'Kaha -ni' means 'never said' ( never happened), 'Suni sunaayee'  not sure whether True or Fake.
I have played football during my college days and know the rules of the game.according to me it's a Fake Story as per following Observations:

• No Selector  worth his salt chooses a player based on who scores the most number of goals.Nobody does that and a trial is never held to select one player only.
  
• Ronaldo  says that he was running in front of the Fantrau guy after Fantrau had skipped the keeper. So, when Fantrau passed the ball to Ronaldo, Ronaldo would have been offside and the third goal would not have stood.
• This Fantrau person rounds the keeper and passes to another player, and the manager picks the guy who tapped in the goal into an open net instead of the player who created that goal so skillfully?
  
• So, this Fantrau guy is as skillful as Ronaldo and he does not play football? Seriously? Some other manager would have picked him up if he was so darn good.
• There is only this mention of Fantrau anywhere. And it's the same story in the same words. If Fantrau means so much to Ronaldo, sure we would have heard more about him.
• Ronaldo's move to Sporting in no way resembled what the story says. In 1997, Cristiano's club at the time C.D. National owed Sporting €22,500. They didn't have the money so Rui Alves offered up Ronaldo if Sporting forgot the debt. Sporting weren't keen on the deal, paying that much for a 12 year old. So National convinced a Sporting representative living in Madeira, Marques Freitas, to take him to the mainland and give Ronaldo a trial.
   In  Cristiano Ronaldo: The Biography There is a mention about Albert Fantrau in page 241 of this book. But nothing about this story.

Opined and  Illustrated  by Tejinder Kamboj