Cristiano Ronaldo's mother reveals heart surgery at 15 almost derailed Juve star's career

Heart conditions and injuries have often led to footballers bringing an early end to ir professional carer. While injured players have eir struggled or managed to receive ir football career one with heart conditions have eir died on pitch or called time on ir career. Back in 2012, Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba collapsed on pitch in 2012 after his heart stopped beating for 78 minutes as per doctors. He was rushed to hospital and emergency surgery h to be done to ensure that player me a full recovery. While Muamba retired from football that year, same could have been case with Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo's career when he h a heart condition at age of 15.

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Cristiano Ronaldo heart surgery

As a youngster, Cristiano Ronaldo h a unique heart condition, as it raced a lot even when he wasn't playing. Speaking to Daily Mail in 2009, Dolores Aveiro, mor of Portugal skipper, opened up about Cristiano Ronaldo heart surgery at a very young age. Dolores revealed that doctors used a sort of laser to cauterise source of problem. She ded that Cristiano Ronaldo heart surgery was done in morning and he came out at end of afternoon.

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Sharing more insight on Cristiano Ronaldo heart surgery, Dolores Aveiro said that before family knew exactly what he h, she was worried because re was possibility of Ronaldo giving up on football. She furr said that Cristiano Ronaldo heart surgery went well and after some days he was back training again.

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During interview, Ronaldo's mor also said that following heart surgery, Ronaldo began to run even faster, helping him terrorise defenders with his pace, guile and trickery on ball. She also revealed that she h a fright following her son's surgery, but Juventus forward wasn’t very worried and did not take situation very seriously.

Cristiano Ronaldo career 

Cristiano Ronaldo has gone on to cement himself one of sport's greats during his career in Europe. After his move to Manchester United from Sporting Lisbon, Cristiano Ronaldo career graph has only risen to new heights. Cristiano Ronaldo career stats have been impressive, with Portuguese scoring 725 goals so far in his career. At club level, Ronaldo has found back of net 626 times, while he has bagged 99 goals in a Portugal shirt. Apart from his goalscoring exploits, Cristiano Ronaldo career has seen him lift Ballon d'Or five times, second only to Lionel Messi.

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Cristiano Ronaldo quarantine and Cristiano Ronaldo Italy return

With COVID-19 putting athletes under self-isolation, Cristiano Ronaldo quarantine included working out with his partner, Georgina Rodriguez. couple shared several pictures on Instagram of m working out toger. Cristiano Ronaldo Italy return was confirmed by various media reports earlier this week with player landing in Turin in his private jet along with his family on Monday. Serie A sides have also called ir players back as Italian government is reportedly planning to relax lockdown regulations in country.

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