Cristiano Ronaldo

Beautiful Football wrote:Despite he is being great player, I always thought he only plays for himself.I Strongly believe he doesn't give shit about his club if he doesn't score goals. Since his MU days i had always this feelings.
I have Never Ever seen him Played his heart out for his team. Or celebrating for his team mates Success with joy.He would rather celebrate him scoring five goals in deadwood match. Never ever seen such a selfish player in my life probably never will. If he wins CL ,its not for Madrid it was him getting Balond'or. Its very annoying.


One of the main reason some of Real Madrid fans doesn't like him.
What is your thoughts.

He's never been among my favourite players on the team, but I think you're being harsh, and reading your description of his behaviour and personality was like reading a summary of the negative theories and speculations about him that we've been reading and hearing about in the media over the past decade.

He's certainly not perfect. He's a hothead, he gets easily instigated into doing dumb things, and particularly in the past he's had a tendency to get frustrated and try to do everything by himself, completely neglecting his team mates in the process. Countless people, friends, coaches and team mates, have all talked about his professionalism off the field and during training, but it's very evident that he can be quite immature, and it takes very little for him to lose his composure.

So, yeah.. despite the media constantly trying to exaggerate and cause controversy around his actions, there's certainly no wonder why a lot of people dislike him. I do, however, think that a lot of the things he does is very exaggerated, and some of the criticism he receives is outright uncalled for.

I have, in fact, seen him celebrate someone else on the team scoring a goal, and I've seen it on several occasions since he arrived from Man United. However, I do think the criticism is fair, and he does it far less than your average player would. It's worth mentioning that he often does celebrate when team mates score significant goals, as opposed to relatively insignificant ones.

And that brings me to my point; many of the people who know him personally, have talked about his passion for football, and particularly an extraordinary passion for winning that he's possessed ever since he was a kid. It may not always be reflected in his general work rate, but I believe that a lot of the things that he gets criticized for is due to his winning mentality, and his self-professed obsession with perfecting his own game and being frustrated by him being incapable of living up to his own expectations. I believe he said this in an English-speaking interview where he's confronted about people perceiving him as arrogant. It's probably on Youtube, if anyone's interested in watching it.

So, to sum it up, there are a lot of things that he can be criticized for, but I think a lot of the exaggerations considering his arrogance is solely based on him being too caught up in himself, or the team, not performing well, or his failure to meet his own expectations. I could be wrong, but that's the impression I get based on what I know and have heard about him, and not just what I see.

In other words - yes, he may care more about his own development than that of the team, but I don't think it's true that he only plays for himself, although his self-criticizing nature tends to make it seem that way. I personally don't think he was mad at Bale for "stealing" his goals, but rather his own inability to take advantage of his chances.