Cristiano Ronaldo opened up about his unwavering support for his children during the first episode of his longtime girlfriend Georgina Rodríguez’s Netflix series I Am Georgina.
Ronaldo is dad to 4-year-old twins, Eva Maria and Mateo, 4-year-old daughter Alana Martina, and 11-year-old son Cristiano Jr.
During the episode, the soccer star admits his eldest son could be a “great” soccer player “if he’s dedicated” to the sport. However, Ronaldo assures that he’s never going to “pressure” Cristiano Jr. to follow in his footsteps.
“Only time will tell. I will never pressure him. He will do what he wants. Also what I want the most for Cristianito and everyone else is that they’re happy and that they choose what they want. I will support in any way,” the father of four says.
He went on to express the importance of trying to be a good parent, which he says comes easy with Rodríguez’s help.
“The best thing that we can do is have children and educate them to have unconditional love ... and to have a woman by your side who gives you stability then the kids’ education is phenomenal,” he adds.
Ronaldo recently celebrated Rodríguez on her 28th birthday. The athlete shared a family photo with Rodríguez and their kids in Dubai, posing on a rooftop after he lit up the city’s famous Burj Khalifa tower with a photo of his girlfriend and a birthday message.
In October, Ronaldo announced that Rodríguez is pregnant with their second set of twins — and in December, he revealed they are expecting a baby boy and girl in a sweet video with their children.
In the clip, Cristiano Jr. and Mateo hold one balloon while Eva and Alana hold another. Rodríguez counts to three in the background before the kids pop the balloons, sending both pink and blue confetti into the air as the family cheers.
How Ronaldo and Rodriguez met
Cristiano Ronaldo and longtime love Georgina Rodriguez are opening up about the start of their relationship. The couple is the subject of a new Netflix reality series, I am Georgina, which started streaming last week. The show follows the pair together and separately, with a focus on Rodriguez’s life as the girlfriend of a high-profile athlete and as the mother of the couple’s children.
The soccer star, who hails from Portugal, and Rodriguez, who is Spanish, began dating in 2017 when she was working as a Gucci store assistant.
In I am Georgina’s first episode, Ronaldo says (in Netflix’s English audio translation), that when he met Rodriguez, he thought she was a “very interesting girl, so much more mature for her age.”
Says Rodriguez: “We had a very special start to our relationship.”
The couple recounted their early courting days, which sometimes included Ronaldo, 36, picking up Rodriguez from work in luxury cars.
“Many times he’d come after work,” the 28-year-old recounts in the English audio translation. “He would come, I remember once, once in a Bugatti. My co-workers went crazy. They get there on the bus, and I would leave in a Bugatti. I mean people couldn’t believe it.”
Adds Ronaldo: “It was funny because I would wait for her outside the store in these flashy cars I have. We would go home and there we would go into our own world.”
Now, Ronaldo and Rodriguez are currently awaiting the arrival of twins. The couple announced that Rodriguez was pregnant in October 2021.
In the first episode, Ronaldo tells viewers in confessional footage that he “didn’t think at the beginning that the relationship would be this strong. “That I would fall in love with her.”
He adds: “I didn’t expect it honestly. But after a while I felt that she was the woman of my life.” (People)