Cristiano Ronaldo’s son Ronaldo Jr. is already showing signs of becoming a great athlete at the tender age of 5 according to his dad. Ronaldo, however, insisted that he would not push his son into playing football.
"I want my son to be a player. I am a footballer and I want him to be one too," the Real Madrid star told the Chinese channel Zhejiang Satellite TV, which has been filming Ronaldo as part of a reality show based around the player.
"I think he has something of an athlete about him, he has athletic characteristics. Obviously he is very young, a baby, he's only five but he loves football, that is a big plus."
The Portuguese superstar also added that his son was always practising football.
"I have 30 balls at home, he is always with the ball and he loves it. But I will not force him to be a player because it comes naturally, it has to be his choice," he said.
"He will be whatever he wants to be, I am not going to push him at all.
"But obviously I want Cristiano to be a player. A top one, like his dad."
Ronaldo set to become father for the second time
Reports have emerged from Portugal that Cristiano Ronaldo travelled to the United States over Christmas in order to arrange the surrogacy of a second child. Ronaldo became a father to his son, Cristiano Ronaldo Jr in 2010 via surrogacy, and according to Correio da Manha and Flash! Vidas, the player has now pushed through all the necessary paperwork in order to again contract the services of a surrogate mother.
The reports from Portugal suggest that Ronaldo left his son under the care of his mother in December in order to travel to Miami and arrange the surrogacy. Ronaldo also hinted he may be set to become a father again when he celebrated a goal against Celta Vigo by putting the ball underneath his shirt, a common celebration made by players who are expecting to become fathers.
Ronaldo announced the birth of Cristiano Jr via Twitter six years ago, where he said he had become the father of a son and would be the sole guardian of the child.
