Cristiano Ronaldo is the focus of a new film about his life. He met up with his former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson on Monday evening. The 30-year-old Real Madrid icon was at Leicester Square for the premiere of his new documentary film 'Ronaldo'. It was filmed across 14 months as the Portugal superstar, Ronaldo won the Champions League with Real in 2014.
The film was made by James Gay-Rees - the producer of another impressive sports documentary, 'Senna'. Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, Radamel Falcao, Gary Neville and Louis Saha all showed up to the event. Television personality Melanie Sykes added glamour to the evening at the glitzy West End bash.
The film reveals a man consumed by his obsession with excellence - an obsession that exposes those denials of a rivalry with Lionel Messi. The two men are on an unavoidable collision course. Through the course of 14 months tracking Ronaldo, Messi's presence in the film is a curiously haunting one. Some of it is unavoidable. The compulsion of his admirers to exclaim the words, "You're better than Messi!" as Ronaldo is whisked away in taxis and limousines. The promotional pieces that talk of a clash that will be "etched in the history of time" without a hint of humour.
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