Cristiano Ronaldo film launches in London

Cristiano Ronaldo returned to England on Monday night and was reunited with his former Old Trafford manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, on the red carpet at the glitzy West End premiere of his new documentary “Ronaldo”.

For Ronaldo getting his own film premiere in London’s Leicester Square seems to be an occasion on par with Champions League finals – and Ballon D’Or galas.

Shot between Real Madrid’s European Cup triumph in 2014 and Ronaldo’s third Ballon d’Or, the film also features footage of him as a child.

CR7 has done little to answer these doubters this season, failing to maintain his goalscoring record on the pitch and openly flirting with a move to Manchester United or Paris Saint-Germain off it. “I’ve started seeing him as a person, not a rival”, Ronaldo says of the Argentine. Dan Roan: “Is it sad for you to see Manchester United not quite at the level they were before?” “I’m in La Liga now but as I’ve said a hundred times, the future nobody knows”.

The footballer explains: ‘People speculate I was with this girl or another, or there was a surrogate mother. But this film skates lightly over anything too idiosyncratic and at all points chooses the simpler path, eventually coming to rest as a 90-minute advertorial for the star.

And the outing only confirmed what we’ve long suspected – Cristiano Jnr is the most adorable celebrity mini-me EVER!

Maybe, maybe. But I just have fun. One of the club’s greats, Jorge Valdano, seems to know the reason things have changed so dramatically for the team’s scoring machine. In the movie you are going to have the opportunity to see that we have very intense moments, very private moments, because I was enjoying the filming.

Cristiano Ronaldo is arguably at the top of the football world, with only one other name (Lionel Messi) nudging him every so often in a constant back-and-forth.

“He’s given me lots of tips”.