The eight-hour flight on the 2,516 km journey from Turin to Madeira is probably the longest time in Cristiano Ronaldo’s life. And that’s also when the greatest player on the planet felt so useless, when he could only sit and pray while his mother was in critical condition.

Fortunately, after meeting her mother in the hospital, the 35-year-old superstar said that “my mother is stable and recovering”. The stroke did not knock Dolores Aveiro, Ronaldo’s mother. Similarly, the cancer also faltered before her fierce fighting ability. It was first discovered in 2007 and Dolores was the winner. In early 2019, it returned. Once again she struggled with extraordinary strength.

If Ronaldo is famous for his energy to stretch himself, from a skinny boy in Madeira to a great superstar, then surely that quality he inherited from his mother.

At the age of 6, Dolores lost her mother. She was then separated from her siblings and placed in a workhouse. There, she lived in loneliness and nostalgia for her parents. Interspersed are terrible punishments if you are unlucky enough to wet the bed or be naughty, or will have your eyelashes plucked, weed for hours in the sun, or have your head covered with a bag.Then one day, the father also appeared and took her home. But Dolores didn’t know that the nightmare had just begun. The former house now has a stepmother, always wielding a whip to beat her husband’s stepchild. For a long time, she ate more whips than dinner.

Dolores ran away many times but was brought back by the police. In fact, the father and stepmother were not pleased when the daughter returned. Later, they even took Dolores to see a psychiatrist in the hope of getting a certificate to put her in a center for the disabled. However, the doctor did not comply with their wishes.

Then at the age of 13, Dolores was expelled from school, stayed at home and made wicker baskets. That’s why she soon fell in love with the rom antic neighbor boy Dinis Aveiro. The marriage took place when she was 18 years old and from here, her father kicked her out of the house forever.

At the age when girls her age went to school, Mrs. Dolores had two children while waiting for her husband to return from the war in Africa. When Dinis Aveiro finished his military service, unfortunately, he was no longer the old Dinis Aveiro. Instead, he was an alcoholic and spent the whole day with his old comrades.

To earn money, she went to France to work as a hired worker. But the income is not much better, more nostalgia for the children. She returned to Madeira and soon gave birth to her third child. So from early morning until sunset, she worked to support her family with 5 mouths to eat.

The task was overwhelming, of course, and yet Dolores was pregnant with her fourth child. She thought this was more of a disaster than a gift. So she boiled dark beer and drank, then ran until exhausted so that the pregnancy was aborted. But it’s not broken. And she had to go to the doctor. This person refused, with the warning that the law prohibits abortion.

9 months passed, the baby was also born, weighing up to 4 kg. It was Ronaldo, who later saved his family from poverty and into the life of the elite that they never dared to dream of.

However, on the way to becoming a superstar of CR7, there is a great contribution of mother Dolores. In addition to encouraging the youngest son to pursue his passion, she is also willing to intervene for his son’s sake. As when he was 10 years old and faced with the choice of a training academy, she was adamant that it must be Nacional with better facilities than Maritimo. Later, she was also the one to terminate the contract with Veiga’s representative, leading to a cooperation agreement with Jorge Mendes, who played a significant role in raising Ronaldo’s level.

Ronaldo always appreciates the sacrifices of the mother he loves so much. Over the years, he tried to help her enjoy, make up for the painful past.He took her around the world by private jet, gifted her with expensive cars, booked her into the most beautiful and lavish resorts or beaches and always called to remind her to take her medicine. At this time, he is ready to stand with his mother in the battle with the disease.She fought all her life alone. Now she has Ronaldo.