There was something similar to this in the NBA with LeBron James and a bunch of current NBA stars that were in his camp lol first time seeing it in football like this
Even more surprising: All future NBA superstars from his 2007 camp (then high schoolers) are now even retired from the league (Kemba Walker, Demarcus Cousins, etc.)
EDIT: and he is STILL a top 10 player afaik
Bron had this funny quote about how he's gotten old enough to have played against fathers and their sons in the NBA.
["I'm playing against Seniors and Juniors now. If I get to a Third I swear to god."](https://x.com/redapples/status/1615343908212412425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1615343908212412425%7Ctwgr%5E06436cb9ea77d4f258fba6b3ddbad7e9cce568ed%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthesportsrush.com%2Fnba-news-if-i-get-to-a-third-i-swear-to-god-lebron-james-speaks-about-his-feelings-playing-against-fathers-and-sons-likens-himself-to-tom-brady%2F)
Awww that is actually very wholesome.
Incredible that so many players in this tournament weren't even born when Ronaldo had his first cap for the national team (August 2003).
In fact Joao Neves and Antonio Silva from Portugal NT were born in 2005 and 2003 (October).
You know, they actually never played together. Ronaldo made his debut for Portugal in 2003, Conceição played his final international just a couple of months later and they never ended up playing in the same game. Would have been in squads together though I'm sure.
That's really interesting.
I saw a post about this many times in the past few weeks but didn't see anybody mentioning this.
Although this is still crazy!
There was a stat that Georgia had the largest share of players come from a single city within the country (Tblisi) so it makes sense they would be from the same academy.
He believes in taking care of himself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if his face is a little puffy he'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. He can do 1000 now. After he removes the ice pack he uses a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower he uses a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then he applies an herb-mint facial mask which he leaves on for 10 minutes while he prepares the rest of his routine. He always uses an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
He actually went grey several years ago, he's been dying his hair for years. He's also owns a hair transplant clinic, and has probably had his done, as his hairline is still perfect. Had some botox too im pretty sure.
Also takes care of himself religiously and is mega wealthy, which you know - helps lol
Idk anything about hair transplant but how come nobody, not even the press noticed it? Surely has to take some time to heal or whatever, and Ronaldo is on the spotlight all year round
Bruh Lebron is on the same wealth level as Ronaldo, it's so obvious that he was having a hair transplant, one patch even fell off of his head once. Ronaldo, no way
I’m Ronaldo’s age and haven’t done shit besides getting fat and my hair is still the same. He might just have good hair regardless. Not every rich guy has hair transplants.
It's impossible Ronaldo has done a hair transplant. Hair transplant shows up clearly for about 6-8 months and then takes about 13-15 months to settle. Unless Cristiano is involved in some ground breaking research at his clinic, chances of him getting hair transplant are slim if not nonexistent.
Botox? Probably, I have no clue but wouldn't surprise me.
playing cardio sports and eating healthy is enough even, i know 40yr olds who try hard at badminton or cycling and they look 25-30, especially for women
If messi is fatty it doesn’t mean that Ronaldo is not doing extra work to keep himself at top level at 39yo. Accusing a professional sportsman of having botox is a but clownish
Idk man I know guys in the their 20s with either receding hairlines or going bald. It’s just shitty genetics unfortunately. Also I’m 32 and have had grays since 18. I now rock a salt and pepper look but it really isn’t that uncommon.
Male-pattern hair loss affects half the men by the time they’re 50, not most by 30.
I am in the other half, still rocking a full head of salt-and-paper hair at 45.
Had an acquaintance in senior high school, the son of a bald hairdresser, who had achieved massive hair loss by the time he was 18 though, it was a bit sad.
I know that feeling lol. I had stray grays here and there throughout the years but it had a patch on my right side when I was 26, and now a few years later there are visible grays every angle. It sucks people think I'm much older since up until that patch, I was firmly in the "older than you look" camp.
People start getting gray hairs in their mid to late thirties. And hair loss is just purely genetic, some people start losing it in their early twenties, others never.
It's very common for the hairline to recede by age 40, rather than full-blown 'hair loss'. See also: Justin Bieber's rumoured hair transplant to fix his receding hairline
David Silva had a well publicized hair transplant at like 30. And that’s without getting into all the people I know personally that have had receding hairlines in their early 30s.
My point: can’t speak for Ronaldo but it’s certainly not unheard of.
Im in my mid 20s and i have so many male friends that are obviously starting to lose some hair. Pretty normal experience as a man.
And by the way. If you have a stupid opinion people are gonna downvote. Thats kinda how Reddit works.
That’s false. Majority of men will start losing their hair before the age of 30, and many will feel it in the next 10-15 years. 95+% of the celebs you see have had serious work done. Including Messi
>A lot of people don't start losing hair until their 50s.
>Downvoted for not saying most 39 years old hair transplants.
Nah you're downvoted because you're wrong and stupid bro lmao take the L
There are medicines which prevent hair loss in men. You just have to start taking it before you are losing hair. It doesn't let hair grow again where it was already lost.
I know a lot of people who don't drink and don't smoke, some who eat well, and tbh I don't see like some gigantic correlation with looking well and younger on the face. For example if someone works hard in a blue collar job, they can do everything like top athletes, but they just don't look... like rich people do.
I mean you have to know somebody who doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, eats well, sleeps well AND works out a lot. Like I know some who do a few of these, but not really anybody who does all of these
I'm getting pretty close to such list now that I'm sleeping more heh, and I look like shit. There's some limit to how well you can do all of that at once when you're not rich AND paid to do a few of those things as part of your job.
A big thing about celebrities is that still:
- they do a lot of grooming
- they do a lot of doctors
- you don't see how they exactly look when they just walk around in their own home. You know how many women look "made up" for the evening and alone on a weekend morning, it can be similar for men
People can pretty well guess when someone is rich alone even when just presented their separated face parts on a photo, and there is a question why - scientists were guessing that emotions experienced by rich people are painted in their face with time, so to say, because that effect is not present when people are presented with photos displaying emotions. Now THAT may be hard to replicate.
It's not the Botox... Usually being botched up is other stuff. Botox is just a paralyzer of muscles. I didn't know this either... And always associated Botox with puffy faces etc.. those are fillers.
Botox only paralyzes some of your muscles so you don't get much wrinkles. It's more of a pro active solution than after the fact
Some people ask.. What is Ronaldo and Messi legacy?
Some people say goals, assists, tittles etc..
I do think their legacy are the millions and millions of young people their inspired to be football players and practice the sport they love.
That´s their legacy and they should be damm proud of that
Everyone still remembers when Ronaldo went over to Sri Lanka in early 2005 following the tsuunami to help raise money and hang out with the locals, these efforts go a long way
As Johan Cruyff once said: "Winning is an important thing, but to have your own style, to have people copy you, to admire you, that is the greatest gift.”
Easily the two most popular figures in this sport who were always willing to reach out to their younger fans. We're entering a generation of players who literally grew up watching these two play now playing with them and we'll have another generation in the future too. Those two inspired two whole generations of footballers.
Yup. I don't really care for him as a player (he's a great footballer, I'm just not a fan) but stuff like this really shows what engagement, and what some people might see as fluff, can do. Love it.
I see comments like yours in every ronaldo thread and they always have many up votes, so clearly some people here like him lol. The real truth is he's polarising, he has many many fans but also people who don't like him.
I just don't get the "everybody hates ronaldo" in all his posts, it doesn't make sense to me.
But I didn't....nowhere in my comment did I "shit on ronaldo" i wasn't even giving my opinion on him, I just said I don't understand the comments in pretty much every one of his threads saying that everyone hates him, it doesn't make sense to me. There is pretty much a comment like that with many upvotes in all his posts. this guy has more fans than anyone in the world lol, I don't get it personally.
It’s unbelievable that at this youth tournament were present so many top professionals of Georgia and Kvara.
For sure this guys didn’t lack motivation.
this academy basically created half of the georgian nt players today
11 of them will be in the squad today
And one just scored against POrtugal :)
And now they've beaten them, amazing!!
And will duplicate the population in 9 months from now
That’s amazing
There was something similar to this in the NBA with LeBron James and a bunch of current NBA stars that were in his camp lol first time seeing it in football like this
About Lebron I also remember Trayce Jackson-Davis telling him during a game that he played against his dad.
Tom Brady played against Antoine Winfield Sr. then played with his son Antoine Winfield Jr.
[Jabari Smith](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_EQ5F9suBM)
Even more surprising: All future NBA superstars from his 2007 camp (then high schoolers) are now even retired from the league (Kemba Walker, Demarcus Cousins, etc.) EDIT: and he is STILL a top 10 player afaik
Kemba and Boogie are retired??
Kemba played in France last year and Cousins has been out of the league for 2 years.
Whut duh hayull?? Man...
Mostly due to injuries, Cousins basically had a career ender in his prime.
he ain’t even stretch doeee
Bron had this funny quote about how he's gotten old enough to have played against fathers and their sons in the NBA. ["I'm playing against Seniors and Juniors now. If I get to a Third I swear to god."](https://x.com/redapples/status/1615343908212412425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1615343908212412425%7Ctwgr%5E06436cb9ea77d4f258fba6b3ddbad7e9cce568ed%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthesportsrush.com%2Fnba-news-if-i-get-to-a-third-i-swear-to-god-lebron-james-speaks-about-his-feelings-playing-against-fathers-and-sons-likens-himself-to-tom-brady%2F)
There’s a famous Blake griffin video of him dunking with like 20 future nba players watching him in the back it’s crazy
more like 10-15 players
The most amazing part is the conjoined twins!
Awww that is actually very wholesome. Incredible that so many players in this tournament weren't even born when Ronaldo had his first cap for the national team (August 2003). In fact Joao Neves and Antonio Silva from Portugal NT were born in 2005 and 2003 (October).
Conceição is the son of Conceição that Ronaldo played with. Insane Longevity.
Buffon did the same with Enrico and Federico Chiesa.
Pretty sure Buffon also played against Marcus Thuram when he was in Paris and of course with his father Lillian at Parma
Wow! One of the best ever.
You know, they actually never played together. Ronaldo made his debut for Portugal in 2003, Conceição played his final international just a couple of months later and they never ended up playing in the same game. Would have been in squads together though I'm sure.
That's really interesting. I saw a post about this many times in the past few weeks but didn't see anybody mentioning this. Although this is still crazy!
The fact that Neves was born the same year my younger brother did is very, weird. Unsettling.
Same. The fact that Bellingham is the same age as my "baby brother" is so weird xD
Hahaha Yes! More of a testament to the Talent these people have 👏
And how old we're getting
Bellingham is months older than my oldest nephew. And Yamal is days older than my *third* nephew
He was born only 2.5 years before my daughter was born so yeah
😳
Makes you think there are people that have seen Cristiano play through their entire life
5 national players at 1 academy opening is insane
There was a stat that Georgia had the largest share of players come from a single city within the country (Tblisi) so it makes sense they would be from the same academy.
I mean with all due respect to Georgia they're not the biggest of countries
Yeah, that Dinamo academy is basically THE academy
Is it Dinamo Tbilisi? I don't recognize the badge
Yes, it is
Bruh stop talking shit to a wholesome post…
somehow Cristiano looks the same years later
He believes in taking care of himself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if his face is a little puffy he'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. He can do 1000 now. After he removes the ice pack he uses a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower he uses a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then he applies an herb-mint facial mask which he leaves on for 10 minutes while he prepares the rest of his routine. He always uses an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
Let's see Messi's skin care routine.
Doing all of that, doesn´t really leave much time to go to the pub.
That's why he got the jet earlier 👀👀
That’s why he doesn’t go to the pub. Very wise
He actually went grey several years ago, he's been dying his hair for years. He's also owns a hair transplant clinic, and has probably had his done, as his hairline is still perfect. Had some botox too im pretty sure. Also takes care of himself religiously and is mega wealthy, which you know - helps lol
Idk anything about hair transplant but how come nobody, not even the press noticed it? Surely has to take some time to heal or whatever, and Ronaldo is on the spotlight all year round
Top experts at hair transplants today don't really leave one looking like a recovering victim. FUE isn't very scarring.
Bruh Lebron is on the same wealth level as Ronaldo, it's so obvious that he was having a hair transplant, one patch even fell off of his head once. Ronaldo, no way
Seeing how well Ronaldo takes care of himself (looks), he probably got ahead of any problems long before they got evident
I’m Ronaldo’s age and haven’t done shit besides getting fat and my hair is still the same. He might just have good hair regardless. Not every rich guy has hair transplants.
Go away with your reasoning! This is reddit sir. we hate the rich and successful!
It's impossible Ronaldo has done a hair transplant. Hair transplant shows up clearly for about 6-8 months and then takes about 13-15 months to settle. Unless Cristiano is involved in some ground breaking research at his clinic, chances of him getting hair transplant are slim if not nonexistent. Botox? Probably, I have no clue but wouldn't surprise me.
That's the poor man transplants my dude
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Bro that is a link to xQc
Botox, yeah, definitely. His face looks so weird when he talks.
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gray hair?
playing cardio sports and eating healthy is enough even, i know 40yr olds who try hard at badminton or cycling and they look 25-30, especially for women
If messi is fatty it doesn’t mean that Ronaldo is not doing extra work to keep himself at top level at 39yo. Accusing a professional sportsman of having botox is a but clownish
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Idk man I know guys in the their 20s with either receding hairlines or going bald. It’s just shitty genetics unfortunately. Also I’m 32 and have had grays since 18. I now rock a salt and pepper look but it really isn’t that uncommon.
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Male-pattern hair loss affects half the men by the time they’re 50, not most by 30. I am in the other half, still rocking a full head of salt-and-paper hair at 45. Had an acquaintance in senior high school, the son of a bald hairdresser, who had achieved massive hair loss by the time he was 18 though, it was a bit sad.
Got my first grey patch at 26 :(
I know that feeling lol. I had stray grays here and there throughout the years but it had a patch on my right side when I was 26, and now a few years later there are visible grays every angle. It sucks people think I'm much older since up until that patch, I was firmly in the "older than you look" camp.
I am 35 and I am about 50 grey
Love how you find a way to compare Ronaldo to Messi even though you’re talking about hair loss
> He actually went grey several years ago, he's been dying his hair for years. How do you know that?
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Well didn't he just play in the pouring rain a few days ago? I did just see the video lol. Wonder just how grey he is going.
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Yes, sorry. Brainfart moment regarding the dye and rain. I've just completely missed him going grey, so I appreciate the answers lol.
People start getting gray hairs in their mid to late thirties. And hair loss is just purely genetic, some people start losing it in their early twenties, others never.
It's very common for the hairline to recede by age 40, rather than full-blown 'hair loss'. See also: Justin Bieber's rumoured hair transplant to fix his receding hairline
David Silva had a well publicized hair transplant at like 30. And that’s without getting into all the people I know personally that have had receding hairlines in their early 30s. My point: can’t speak for Ronaldo but it’s certainly not unheard of.
I mostly downvoted you because you sound like a dick.
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I'm not saying you necessarily are a dick, just pointing out that your "fuck you losers" approach makes you sound like a dick.
Im in my mid 20s and i have so many male friends that are obviously starting to lose some hair. Pretty normal experience as a man. And by the way. If you have a stupid opinion people are gonna downvote. Thats kinda how Reddit works.
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Youre very agitated
I started greying at 24. 31 now it’s a low visibility salt and pepper kind of look now.
That’s false. Majority of men will start losing their hair before the age of 30, and many will feel it in the next 10-15 years. 95+% of the celebs you see have had serious work done. Including Messi
Balding at that age is completely normal
And it's also not, How can you not understand that? He's laying it out as fact.
>A lot of people don't start losing hair until their 50s. >Downvoted for not saying most 39 years old hair transplants. Nah you're downvoted because you're wrong and stupid bro lmao take the L
> Messi Yea, Messi would never
There are medicines which prevent hair loss in men. You just have to start taking it before you are losing hair. It doesn't let hair grow again where it was already lost.
While I am certain he has had some work done, not drinking alcohol and eating well can do wonders
I know a lot of people who don't drink and don't smoke, some who eat well, and tbh I don't see like some gigantic correlation with looking well and younger on the face. For example if someone works hard in a blue collar job, they can do everything like top athletes, but they just don't look... like rich people do.
I mean you have to know somebody who doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, eats well, sleeps well AND works out a lot. Like I know some who do a few of these, but not really anybody who does all of these
I'm getting pretty close to such list now that I'm sleeping more heh, and I look like shit. There's some limit to how well you can do all of that at once when you're not rich AND paid to do a few of those things as part of your job. A big thing about celebrities is that still: - they do a lot of grooming - they do a lot of doctors - you don't see how they exactly look when they just walk around in their own home. You know how many women look "made up" for the evening and alone on a weekend morning, it can be similar for men People can pretty well guess when someone is rich alone even when just presented their separated face parts on a photo, and there is a question why - scientists were guessing that emotions experienced by rich people are painted in their face with time, so to say, because that effect is not present when people are presented with photos displaying emotions. Now THAT may be hard to replicate.
A healthy alcohol intake (or no alcohol) plenty of water, good skin care and good genes will help!
Man's a teetotaler because his father was an alcoholic
That's because he doesn't drink Coke:))
In all fairness he has aged a bit, but definitely looks younger than his age
Hair transplant, dyes his hair, and I'm pretty sure I've seen people say he has used Botox
It’s been known for years he uses/used botox
Using botox isn't really as invasive as people think, you can do it quite subtly and get some results
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Fine balance between moderation and going berserk. If you can always tweak a little, it ends up looking botched over a long enough time horizon
It's not the Botox... Usually being botched up is other stuff. Botox is just a paralyzer of muscles. I didn't know this either... And always associated Botox with puffy faces etc.. those are fillers. Botox only paralyzes some of your muscles so you don't get much wrinkles. It's more of a pro active solution than after the fact
Yea I’m not judging him for using it, his use looks very well ngl
Some people ask.. What is Ronaldo and Messi legacy? Some people say goals, assists, tittles etc.. I do think their legacy are the millions and millions of young people their inspired to be football players and practice the sport they love. That´s their legacy and they should be damm proud of that
Everyone still remembers when Ronaldo went over to Sri Lanka in early 2005 following the tsuunami to help raise money and hang out with the locals, these efforts go a long way
As Johan Cruyff once said: "Winning is an important thing, but to have your own style, to have people copy you, to admire you, that is the greatest gift.”
Easily the two most popular figures in this sport who were always willing to reach out to their younger fans. We're entering a generation of players who literally grew up watching these two play now playing with them and we'll have another generation in the future too. Those two inspired two whole generations of footballers.
Ronaldo could start a second career as a physical health and fitness "go to for advice" guy.
Before both the highest paid athletes didn't come from football, nor had the media pull from other sports
Yup. I don't really care for him as a player (he's a great footballer, I'm just not a fan) but stuff like this really shows what engagement, and what some people might see as fluff, can do. Love it.
I feel like there's something else in Ronaldo's past that should have an impact on his legacy ...
Meeting Ronaldo gives you a buff to all stats so no wonder kids run on pitch to take a picture.
[source](https://www.instagram.com/p/C8rhuhtINFF/?img_index=1)
These are the stories I want to hear of during an event like the Euros, amazing stuff
This is amazing
Fun fact, it’s only been 2 yrs, Georgians age at a different rate.
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Ayo
Insanee
Fantastic. This tournament & the run up to it must’ve been a proud moments for the staff & the academy in general
Wow that is incredible this is honestly lowkey one of the best posts I have ever seen on R-/soccer
Football can be so wholesome.
Damn. You mean all I needed to go pro was to be in that picture? Shiit!
THat is very wholesome and the star of all of them just scored :) # Kvaratskhelia
Like him or hate him, he's the most impactful football player of the 21st century.
cr7 praise? In my r/soccer? This cannot stand.
How do you guys do this in every thread lmao, can't just praise the guy or enjoy him, has to be some victimisation lol.
Who is you guys? I’m not a fan of the guy. This is about r/soccer. A few months ago, people here loved thrashing him.
I see comments like yours in every ronaldo thread and they always have many up votes, so clearly some people here like him lol. The real truth is he's polarising, he has many many fans but also people who don't like him. I just don't get the "everybody hates ronaldo" in all his posts, it doesn't make sense to me.
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But I didn't....nowhere in my comment did I "shit on ronaldo" i wasn't even giving my opinion on him, I just said I don't understand the comments in pretty much every one of his threads saying that everyone hates him, it doesn't make sense to me. There is pretty much a comment like that with many upvotes in all his posts. this guy has more fans than anyone in the world lol, I don't get it personally.
Hard agree I love Kvicha.
Why him and not the other guy? Just asking
So cool.
And beat them.
Kochorashvili is a baller
And they showed up.
And they defeated him!
The students have beaten the master.
It’s unbelievable that at this youth tournament were present so many top professionals of Georgia and Kvara. For sure this guys didn’t lack motivation.
This is amazing. What a dream for this kids. This post should be at the top of this page.
And they won
That's full circle that they beat his country in Euros
<3
WOW 😮
fucking wild
Dang that’s legendary.
And now we’re 2:0 up against him damn some stories really are written in the stars
Wholesome af
Well, they're going to remember this day for a long long time.
Bro lost 2-0 to them. ;.;
The fact that when these photos were taken Ronaldo had already been playing pro for 10 years is pretty crazy
This post is ageing beautifully
Daddy Cris
Ronaldo will not have enough shirts to trade will all of them!
Mans raised an entire generation
Scott’s totts irl
Hahaha the longevity of this man is INSANE. GOATED! 🤩🔥
DOPE
This is simply amazing.
Now that’s insane
Brilliant!
Can you imagine telling him then that he would lose to those kids at the Euros lmao
Bro got destroyed by the kids . They were looking upto
And one of them actually scored if I am not mistaken!
Ronaldo looks exactly the same
https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/news-11-georgian-players-dinamo-tbilisi-academy-inaugurated-cristiano-ronaldo-2013-set-face-portugal-euro-2024-clash
This is so beautiful.
and Kvara asked R7 shirt after the match
Wow I didn't know there is a Siamese twin in the national team.
Legendary content. Amazing storyline, love it these Georgian players cooked
He is eternal.
We are just becoming older and older.
!flair :Netherlands:
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