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Back in the early 2000's when Barcelona still hadn't signed Ronaldinho, Ricardo Quaresma was the Catalan club's latest signing. He showed many incredible skills but quickly faded away into obscurity, but a young Cristiano Ronaldo promised to follow on Luis Figo's steps the way that Quaresma could not. Today both players have done what Figo wasn't able to pull off during that period of time, they became European Champions with Portugal but it mostly is thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo.
With all this hero status, Quaresma still can't believe the critics who constantly hate on Ronaldo and look for the slightest detail to mess with his image and prestige. The player spoke to a local Portuguese news outlet about Ronaldo's beginnings and how he fought incredibly hard for everything he0s got today.
Talking to Jornal de Noticias, Quaresma said: "[Ronaldo] is a person who likes to play. He's not as arrogant as people paint. And he is a great captain. A person who's always ready to help our colleagues. I have admired him since we started playing at Sporting, because already as kids he showed his strength. Sometimes I played with him and [it was] said: 'you're small, you're skinny, you won't be able to get there'. And Cristiano was going into the bathrooms to fill buckets and do weights with buckets. He is a person who never let himself go down for anything or anyone."
About what the rest of the team was thinking when Ronaldo fell injured during the final, Quaresma said: "What are we thinking? You are missing your leader. He is our leader. But the truth is that we gave a good answer and he did not fail to support his colleagues. In pain or no pain, and at the time he was in so much pain, he was jumping and pushing everyone so that his colleagues heard."
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