8pints Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 (edited) https://i.imgur.com/XECdomK.gifv I don't think this worked Edited August 18, 2018 by 8pints Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cjay Posted August 18, 2018 Visiting Supporter Share Posted August 18, 2018 (edited) Love Messi. A joy to watch . Think Ronnie has gone to Italy to win titles, Messi has him beat on titles and Ronnie knows time is running out. Messi for me, Ronaldo is an incredible athlete, Messi is the most technically gifted player of my lifetime. Messi makes watching Football exciting, thats what matters in the end. Edited August 18, 2018 by Cjay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Seems to be quiet in a lot of media but Las Vegas police have reopened a rape case vs Ronaldo He could be in big trouble though he has called it fake news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 She didnt provide them with enough info 9 years ago but has now come forward with what the police wanted Sounds fishy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Recap Quote (CNN)A woman has accused Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the world's biggest soccer stars, of raping her in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009. Kathryn Mayorga says the Portuguese footballer, who now plays for Italian club Juventus, raped her while she repeatedly screamed no, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas police said Monday they have reopened a criminal investigation that began in 2009. After the attack, according to the lawsuit, Ronaldo apologized, "stating he was sorry, he was usually a gentleman." The lawsuit alleges that Ronaldo told his representatives that "she said 'no' and 'stop' several times." Mayorga's lawsuit accuses Ronaldo, 33, and his team of taking advantage of her fragile emotional state to coerce her into signing a settlement and nondisclosure agreement in 2009. She claims she received $375,000 in exchange for her silence. Her lawsuit seeks to void the settlement and agreement. Ronaldo's representatives denied the rape allegations when German publication Der Spiegel first reported them in 2017. After the outlet broke news of the lawsuit Friday in an interview with Mayorga, Ronaldo's lawyer called the reporting "blatantly illegal." Ronaldo and Kathryn Mayorga met at Las Vegas' Rain nightclub, the lawsuit says. "It violates the personal rights of our client Cristiano Ronaldo in an exceptionally serious way. This is an inadmissible reporting of suspicions in the area of privacy," lawyer Christian Schertz said in a statement. Ronaldo appeared to dispute the claims in an Instagram live post on Friday: "What they said today, fake -- fake news. They want to promote by my name. It's normal. They want to be famous -- to say my name. Yeah but it's part of the job. I'm (a) happy man and all, all good." Mayorga's co-counsel, Leslie Stovall, said her complaint and her "psychological" injuries, as well as the physical evidence, the settlement and Ronaldo's alleged answers to questions about the assault, are not fake news. The alleged attack Mayorga met Ronaldo at the now-closed Rain nightclub, inside the Palms Hotel and Casino on June 13, 2009, the complaint says. Ronaldo invited her, her friend and others to his penthouse suite. According to Mayorga's lawsuit, Ronaldo asked her to join the group in a jacuzzi and gave her shorts and a T-shirt to wear. As Mayorga changed in a bathroom, she said Ronaldo approached her, exposed himself and asked her for oral sex. Mayorga said she refused, but that Ronaldo pulled her into a bedroom and raped her as she screamed, "No, no, no." The same day, she reported the incident to police and went to the hospital for a sexual assault examination, the lawsuit says.. Initially, she refused to identify Ronaldo to police, fearing public humiliation, her complaint says. Weeks later, when she named him in a police interview, a detective told her that she would face retaliation and her actions would be portrayed as extortion attempts, according to the lawsuit. A nurse who examined her shared the same sentiment, Mayorga said in the lawsuit. "The psychological trauma of the sexual assault, the fear of public humiliation and retaliation and the reiteration of those fears by law enforcement and medical providers left plaintiff terrified and unable to act or advocate for herself," the lawsuit claims. Meanwhile, Ronaldo had retained a team of "fixers" that the lawsuit calls "personal reputation protection specialists" and are unnamed defendants. The lawsuit alleges they monitored Mayorga, her friends and family, and law enforcement to "develop and implement a strategy" to prevent or delay public disclosure of the allegations and criminal prosecution of Ronaldo. The team communicated with Mayorga's lawyer at the time, who agreed to a private mediation with them. Mayorga's lawyer did not follow up with Las Vegas police, according to the lawsuit. The Las Vegas Police Department confirmed that Mayorga did not provide an assailant's name or location of the alleged assault in her 2009 complaint. She only wanted to report a sexual assault and submit to a medical exam, police spokesman Aden Ocampo-Gomez said. The settlement The lawsuit accuses Ronaldo of battery for sodomizing her. Additional claims against him and his representatives include intentional infliction of emotional distress, coercion and fraud, and abuse of a vulnerable person. In mediation discussions, Ronaldo's representatives led her to believe they were attempting to compensate her for her injuries, and that agreeing to the settlement precluded her from cooperating with police. In reality, the lawsuit claims, his team was attempting to obstruct a criminal investigation and erode Mayorga's credibility, thus diminishing her chances of pursuing a claim for civil damages. The allegations form the basis of Mayorga's claims of coercion and fraud, racketeering and civil conspiracy, and abuse of process. Her family, who lives in Las Vegas, attended mediation to provide her with emotional support and advice. But they were excluded from discussions by Ronaldo's team and the mediator, according to the lawsuit. Aware of her "vulnerable" state, his team reinforced the threat of public humiliation if she or anyone else publicly disclosed her allegations or cooperated with law enforcement, her complaint says. They threatened to portray her as having consented to sex and then making a false claim so she could extort the man considered one of the world's best -- if not the best -- player for the past decade. He's played for the top clubs, including Spain's Real Madrid and England's Manchester United, and joined Juventus this summer for a reported $117 million transfer fee. Mayorga described mediation "as re-experiencing the sexual assault," an ordeal marked by "extreme fearfulness, complete helplessness and eventually a sense of passivity where she would do anything just to be able to leave/escape/avoid revisiting the sexual assault by continuing the mediation," the lawsuit says. The aftermath Over the years that Mayorga maintained her silence, her emotional health suffered under the weight of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the lawsuit. She says she struggled to maintain relationships or hold down a job. Meanwhile, Ronaldo's star grew. Now a father of four, he won 2017's Ballon d'Or, given to the best male player in the world. It marked his fifth time hoisting the trophy, a feat matched only by Argentina/Barcelona star Lionel Messi. Ronaldo counts a lifetime Nike deal among his many endorsements and is well-known for his philanthropy, especially when it comes to children's causes. Then, a sports website leaked copies of documents and communications between Ronaldo and his team relevant to the mediation to Der Spiegel, which published a detailed account of the allegations in April 2017. Mayorga retained legal counsel, fearful that she might somehow be linked to the article and run afoul of the settlement, one of her lawyers, Larissa Drohobyczer, told CNN. Motivated by the collective voices of #MeToo, she decided to come out publicly and move forward with the lawsuit after her team obtained corroboration of her account, Drohobyczer said. Mayorga's lawsuit claims that she obtained the documents from Ronaldo's team and handed them over to Las Vegas police in August. One of the purported documents, quoted in the lawsuit, calls the settlement "incredibly favorable" given the nature of Mayorga's claims and the potential impact they could have on his personal and professional reputation, including endorsement opportunities. And, the document says, it avoided the potentially "catastrophic effect" of not letting him travel in the United States. Ronaldo's representatives forcefully denied Der Spiegel's account and threatened legal action against the publication. They called the account a "journalistic fiction" that contained "unattributable and unsubstantiated allegations" that were "untruthful and false," according to the lawsuit. Their denials form the defamation claims in Mayorga's lawsuit. Mayorga did not participate in the article and was not named in it. In a later interview published by Der Spiegel on Saturday, in which she was identified for the first time, she said that she had followed the online reaction to the original story closely. She had taken notice of comments about the athlete's desirability, she told the magazine, including statements to the effect of, "As if Ronaldo even needs to rape a woman." Those statements mirrored thoughts she once had about Ronaldo, she told the magazine. But she wasn't going to be silent any more. Stovall, one of Mayorga's lawyers, said her client wants to hold the soccer star accountable and protect other women. She also wants to show how "fixers" like the ones who allegedly assisted Ronaldo enable sexual assault, Stovall said. She hopes to convince victims to pursue charges against alleged perpetrators, "no matter how wealthy, famous or powerful they may appear to be." https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/30/us/cristiano-ronaldo-rape-allegations-lawsuit/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Ronaldo has 46 goals in his last 44 games for Portugal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 109 international goals for CR7. Equal with the legendary Ali Daei as best ever. (Messi has 73 for Argentina) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 26, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 26, 2021 Surely Ronaldo particularly has to start losing the edge soon. He's 36 now, time waits for no man. Yes, he's superhuman but even Mo Farah can't do the times anymore, even with superhuman capabilities he's got to start to slow down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 11 hours ago, sidcow said: Surely Ronaldo particularly has to start losing the edge soon. He's 36 now, time waits for no man. Yes, he's superhuman but even Mo Farah can't do the times anymore, even with superhuman capabilities he's got to start to slow down. He is slowing though but still putting up great numbers. Ronaldo and Messi could play until 40 and the numbers will still be elite. They ruined the system for goals, only Lewandowski got close recently Kane is for sale for 130 million. These two probably laugh at his goal record Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 It’ll be really interesting if Ronaldo moves again at 36. He could probably turn in another 2 seasons of world class performances for someone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 30 minutes ago, Genie said: It’ll be really interesting if Ronaldo moves again at 36. He could probably turn in another 2 seasons of world class performances for someone. Buendia Jack Ronaldo behind Watkins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Thought Ronaldo might head back to Utd actually. Cavani has probably filled the spot he could have had. I'm not sure he would be quite the freak in England now. I believe he may find the number of tests he has to pass a challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 44 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: Thought Ronaldo might head back to Utd actually. Cavani has probably filled the spot he could have had. I'm not sure he would be quite the freak in England now. I believe he may find the number of tests he has to pass a challenge. Bruno be so pissed he gets 2 goals a season when Ronaldo takes his penalty duties 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Fully credit to the man he is still doing it at 36 and in incredible shape but let's be honest. Portugal were playing with 10 men last night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 28, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted June 28, 2021 Yeah he was pretty anonymous last night. Fantastic player though. Amazing to see him still performing at that level even though he's 36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Tbf to Ronaldo last night, he was wanting it in the middle far earlier than the passes/crosses came - I think any striker maybe bar Drogba at his best would have had a pretty anonymous night. They needed to get balls to him early and just made pretty triangles on the corner of the 18 yard box whilst the 3 CBs got into good positions. He was nullified. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 15 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: Tbf to Ronaldo last night, he was wanting it in the middle far earlier than the passes/crosses came - I think any striker maybe bar Drogba at his best would have had a pretty anonymous night. They needed to get balls to him early and just made pretty triangles on the corner of the 18 yard box whilst the 3 CBs got into good positions. He was nullified. Yes he has basically turned himself into a centre forward the last few seasons and like any other thrives on service and penalties, whereas Messi has really gone the other way and become more of a creator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The_Rev Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Isn’t the internet poisonous enough without unnecessary body shaming? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Wayne Rooney who looked like a 30 year old when he was 16 still looks like an older man at 35 Im shocked He had a hairy chest at 11 of course he's grey now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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