Brazilian Ronaldo, who has just married for the third time, once revealed he had ‘saved enough sperm for a football team’.
The 2002 World Cup winner – widely regarded as the greatest striker of his generation – has just got hitched to model Celina Locks, who is 13 years his junior. The pair, who tied the knot on the Spanish island of Ibiza, got engaged in January after Ronaldo had popped the question during a break in the Caribbean.
Along with images from the big day, Celina wrote on social media: “Today we bring our families together for an intimate religious celebration. And thus marks the beginning of a week of many celebrations.
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Celina is Ronaldo’s third wife, with the icon previously married to Milene Domingues and Daniella Cicarelli. It is unclear whether kids are on the cards for the loved-up couple.
But the fact Ronaldo has had a vasectomy is unlikely to be a barrier to the pair creating offspring. Back in 2019, Ronaldo revealed in an interview with the Financial Times he had some sperm ‘on ice’. “I have some on ice. Enough to make a football team,” he boldly declared.
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Aside from his mountain of goals for the likes Barcelona, both Milan clubs and Real Madrid, Ronaldo will forever be remembered for his off-on appearance in the 1998 World Cup final against France. At the height of his powers, Ronaldo’s omission from Brazil’s original teamsheet shocked the football world.
An updated version of the teamsheet did include him and he indeed started the game, which saw France romp to a 3-0 victory on home soil. It later emerged that Ronaldo had suffered seizure. In the same FT interview, he admitted the same would happen again in the 2002 final against Germany in Japan.
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He said: “In the final in Yokohama, the match was at eight at night, the same time as it was in Paris. After lunch, everybody went to sleep and I [thought], ‘I don't want to sleep, f***’.
“I was looking around for some people to talk to and I found [goalkeeper] Dida, who was so sleepy. I said, 'No, you, please stay with me’. I didn't sleep that day, afraid something should happen again. Dida stayed with me the whole time.”
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