00:00I see huge potential, great talent.
00:05He's doing something even new or Messi has never done.
00:08Let's see, during his way, what's going to happen.
00:13Choose better than him.
00:14You could all like the other ones, like Camavinga, like Rodrigo, like Vinicius.
00:19Luminium out.
00:20I believe that he's going to be the best players for this new generation.
00:25It would be interesting to see what one of the greatest players has played.
00:30What he thinks about the next generation coming now to take over the crown maybe at some point.
00:35Like the likes of Luminium out.
00:38What do you see in this young player?
00:40I see huge potential, great talent.
00:43He needs luck because he's very young.
00:46I hope he doesn't get some problems.
00:49He's doing something even new or Messi has never done, 16 years old.
00:54Yes, he was in contests that helped him a lot.
00:57The Spain national team is really, really good.
01:01And I think he has huge potential.
01:03But let's see, during his way, what's going to happen.
01:09But I believe that he's going to be the best players for this new generation.
01:15How impressed were you with Jude Belenum coming to Real Madrid?
01:18Obviously, you know that path and that journey and how difficult it can be.
01:21How impressed have you been with him in his first year at Real Madrid?
01:24It's the same.
01:25It's the same.
01:26It's huge, huge potential, huge talents.
01:28He go to the club that the environment was clean, was good.
01:35And he grow.
01:36He grow like the other ones, like Camavinga, like Rodrigo, like Vinicius.
01:43So it's good.
01:44I think he's in a team that helped him to be a top player.
01:48And I believe, too, that he's going to be one of the best in the next generation.
01:53And that takes me to your son now, Chris Jr.
01:56Yes.
01:57He wants to be a footballer.
01:58Yes.
01:59How would you feel about going like, right, go on, you go.
02:02As I told you, I say, I give you the map as an example.
02:06Because, you know, this generation is difficult for you to tell them something and letting them do it.
02:15It's difficult.
02:16Your kids, you felt that it's really difficult.
02:18But always in my mind put, you will see your daddy by example.
02:23They see me every day, what I do.
02:25In home, in the training, or in the game.
02:28They say, my daddy's work a lot every time.
02:31You understand?
02:32They see that.
02:33What I say to Mark is the same.
02:35They see that.
02:36And, but right in this moment, Christian wants to be a football player.
02:40But I'm not making a big pressure.
02:42I make a little bit of pressure.
02:43He's 14 years old.
02:45How I'm going to do it?
02:46He has the pressure already to be son of Cristiano.
02:51Imagine if I make now, in the middle of Big Lions, right now.
02:55Let him do his mistakes.
02:57Let him do his things.
03:00But I hope so, in the future, he can be a professional player.
03:04Or, if he's not a player, be another job.
03:08But I will always support them.
03:10Because we cannot make a pressure on our sons because we are famous.
03:15And because of that, I don't want to make that extra pressure.
03:19Because you've been able to give them a different life to what you had.
03:22We both had humble upbringing when we were young.
03:25We've lived good lives now because of football.
03:27Their lives are different.
03:29So how do you give them hunger?
03:31How do you give them the work ethic?
03:33By example.
03:34I think it's the only way.
03:35I give good education to my kids.
03:38But by example.
03:39I think it's the best way.
03:42To try to teach them.
03:44Give you my advice.
03:46My knowledge.
03:47My experience.
03:48Look.
03:49Is it true?
03:50When you say the true, something happens.
03:54You see?
03:55The men guy.
03:56Five Champions League.
03:57They say the true.
03:59Listen, I don't lie.
04:00No, it's true.
04:01You see?
04:02This is why I have conversation with my friends a couple days.
04:05And I say, my kid's gonna suffer.
04:07Your kid's gonna suffer.
04:08Because one moment of their life, they're gonna have pain.
04:12You understand?
04:13And the pain, uncertainty, and what they have to do with.
04:17Constant work.
04:18Because nobody's gonna help them.
04:20They're gonna be themselves in a hard moment.
04:23And they're falling down.
04:25They have to stand, cry alone, and keep going.
04:28Did you always feel different to everybody else?
04:30Like, even as a kid at sporting, growing up.
04:32And then when you signed to United, you got big players.
04:34Did you always feel that you was a bit special?
04:36I felt that my education was different.
04:41The environment that I was born was different.
04:44And the mindset was different as well.
04:47But if you ask me, why, I don't know.
04:51I don't know why we, because I think all human beings, we are kind of, we have some talent.
04:57And we are unique.
04:59We are special in some way.
05:00And I'm not saying I'm more special than you or more special than him.
05:04I was different.
05:05And I take advantage from my contests.
05:09The help that I have with my family.
05:11The closest friends that I always surround.
05:14Listen, the last one.
05:15One more question.
05:16What will you miss though, man?
05:18You're going to have to give up this game one day.
05:19I know you're the kind of guy who wants to play for another four or five years.
05:23Yeah?
05:24If you do that, you deserve it.
05:25But when you finally take your boots off for the last time, what will be one of the
05:30couple of things that you go, you know what, I'm going to miss that?
05:33I miss when I go into a stadium on the big moments.
05:36I think that I'm not going to miss, I'm not going to have the adrenaline that's got a goal.
05:45Or to be in a bit, to be nervous.
05:47You know, to be, I think I'm going to miss that.
05:49Because other parts I'm, you know, I'm in a good control of people around me.
05:53I have good business.
05:54I'll give good, I have good things, good incomes that, but I think the adrenaline of football
06:01never going to exist more.
06:03This is why I'm going a little bit further than football.
06:06Because with 40's you say, I give everything.
06:11You understand?
06:1240 or 41 or 42, it doesn't matter.
06:14You say, I give my body for 25 years of football.
06:20I cannot give more because, you know, the age don't allow us to go more further.
06:24For example, this is why I'm extended.
06:27You understand my longevity and this is why I take care of myself.
06:30I keep working.
06:32Because I know that two, three years more, I still can produce something good.
06:37This is why I told you, let me think in the present.
06:40I do it all the parts.
06:41I prepare my business area, which is going very, very, very well.
06:46I will miss, of course I will miss.
06:49Probably I will be a little bit lost.
06:53But listen, what I'm going to do?
06:55You think I'm going to cry with all the life that I have?
06:59Yeah, maybe a little bit.
07:00Because I've become more sensitive.
07:02But I will be a little bit like that.
07:05But I have other things to worry.
07:08It's going to be another chapter of my life, which is a business part that I'm excited to.
07:15And that will be a challenge for me and learn other areas that I really don't know.
07:21Be more involved in my business.
07:24And I'm surrounded with very, very, very good heads, which is for me the key to have successful outside the football as well in a business part.
07:32It's to have people smarter than you.
07:36And you have to be capable to understand that.
07:42I think I'm smart in football.
07:44But in other areas, I have people much more smarter than me.
07:48So you have to be surrounded with them, to learn with them, and you make your own style.
07:52And to be good with these people, to the business go up, in my opinion.
07:57All right, man. Listen, thank you.
07:59Rio, thank you, man.
08:00Pleasure, man. Lovely.
08:01Lovely to come here.
08:02You are a good guy.
08:03And I'm happy to give this interview to you.
08:05I wish it's not the first one and the last one.
08:08Because life will continue.
08:10My channel will continue.
08:11And other projects will continue.
08:13I'm happy for you, man.
08:14Appreciate it, man. Thank you so much.
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