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Cristiano Ronaldo becomes a papa

"It is with great joy and emotion that I inform I have recently become father to a baby boy. As agreed with the baby's mother, who prefers to have her identity kept confidential, my son will be under my exclusive guardianship. No further information will be provided on this subject and I request everyone to fully respect my right to privacy (and that of the child) at least on issues as personal as these are."

Cristiano Ronaldo 'paid a surrogate mother to have his baby

Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo paid a surrogate mother to have his baby son, it was claimed today.

Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias said the baby was conceived by the surrogate at the end of last summer in San Diego, where Ronaldo was on holiday.

The boy was born weighing 9lb 8oz on June 17 while the star was at the World Cup in South Africa.

Diario de Noticias said Ronaldo travelled to the Algarve to meet his son as soon as Portugal were eliminated from the tournament by Spain on June 29.

It gave no further details of the claim.

Ronaldo's sister Katia Aveiro said her brother was 'very happy about becoming a father'.

The youngster is the spitting image of his famous father, with brown eyes and a shock of brown hair, his sister revealed.

Speaking at one of the family's homes in Vilamoura, on the Algarve, Katia told Diario de Noticias: 'He has brown eyes and brown hair like Cristiano.

'He's very happy, of course! Who isn't happy having children? The baby looks like him, although he's still very small to see what his features will be like.

'He's very calm, he just eats and sleeps.'

Katia said her own sons Rodrigo, nine, and four-month-old Dinis 'are very happy' with the new arrival.

She said her brother will reveal his son's name 'when he returns from Madrid', where he is said to be working.

State television channel RTP claimed the boy will be called Ronaldo.

The footballer became a father two days after playing against the Ivory Coast in the World Cup and four days before he helped Portugal beat North Korea 7-0.

He did not reveal the news to his team-mates while in South Africa.

Ronaldo made his shock revelation he had become a father on Saturday night on his official website, Facebook and Twitter pages.

He wrote: 'It is with great joy and emotion that I inform I have recently become a father to a baby boy.

'As agreed with the baby's mother, who prefers to have her identity kept confidential, my son will be under my exclusive guardianship.'

Last night, more than 18 hours after the messages first appeared and after 40,000 fans had registered their congratulations on Facebook, Ronaldo's agent confirmed the story, saying: 'Yes, it's true. We make no further comment.'

His girlfriend, Russian underwear model Irina Shayk wrote on her Facebook page: 'My boyfriend is now the father of a boy.'

Ronaldo spent last summer in the US on holiday after signing for Real Madrid from Manchester United for a world record £80million.

The baby will have been conceived around September last year when he was playing for the Spanish giants.

At that time 21-year-old Italian Raffaella Fico claimed to be dating the footballer, but the relationship was never confirmed.

Other women who have been linked to Ronaldo recently include Paris Hilton, Big Brother star Imogen Thomas and US star Kim Kardashian.

In a recent interview in Portugal the star was asked if he wanted to have children. He replied that the day might come 'sooner rather than later'.

His gruelling training regime and fixtures at Real Madrid, where he earns £180,000 a week, combined with a love of the high life, make it hard to imagine him being a single parent.

That makes it likely that the child's upbringing will have plenty of input from Ronaldo's formidable mother Dolores.

The newspaper's claim adds weight to the theory that Ronaldo had the child through a 'Ricky Martin'- style arrangement.

The Puerto Rican singer became a father to twins with help from a surrogate mother in 2008.
Only two months ago, Ronaldo was at the centre of a pregnancy riddle involving a stunning Spanish model.

Former Miss Spain Maria Jose Suarez was linked to the star after splitting with her boyfriend, tennis player Feliciano Lopez, when she discovered she was pregnant.

The footballer was named in the media as her secret lover, sparking speculation he was the father of the child.

But she denied sleeping with Ronaldo and last week it emerged she had lost her baby.

Happy 23rd Birthday Messi!!

There has been no shortage of players billed as Diego Maradona’s successor, yet few, if any, have borne that burden with the aplomb of Lionel Messi. Blessed with a wondrous left foot, outstanding vision, near-unstoppable dribbling skills and sublime technique, Messi is a sight to behold. Add in his explosive changes of pace, timing and nose for goal – a trait particularly in evidence in 2010 – and you have a player able to change any game in the blink of an eye.

The Rosario-born superstar took his first steps in the game at local club Newell's Old Boys, before joining Catalan giants Barcelona at the age of just 13 after a successful trial at the Camp Nou. Indeed, so impressed was Carles Rexach, then head of youth development at Can Barça, that “I made him sign for the club on the back of a napkin, as a symbolic gesture. He’d caught my eye immediately.”

An important factor in the move was the Azulgranas’ offer to pay for treatment to correct Messi’s growth-hormone deficiency, a condition that led to his nickname of La Pulga (The Flea), which had proved prohibitively expensive for his Argentinian suitors in the midst of the country’s economic collapse. Messi’s La Liga debut came in late 2004 and he definitively exploded onto the Spanish football scene the following year. His first goal, fired on 1 May 2005 against Albacete, made him the club’s youngest ever goalscorer, a record he held until beaten by Bojan Krkic in 2008.

The years 2008 through 2010 have cemented Messi’s rise to superstardom at Barcelona, where to date he has won three La Liga titles, the UEFA European Supercup, the Copa del Rey, three Spanish Supercups, two UEFA Champions Leagues and one FIFA Club World Cup crown. What is more, after scoring in the finals of the latter four competitions in 2009, the Argentinian was rewarded with that year’s FIFA World Player award. And after scoring 38 goals in all competitions in 2008/09, La Pulga surpassed that total in 2009/10.

At international level, Messi mirrored Maradona’s achievements at Japan 1979 by inspiring his country to victory at the 2005 edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup in the Netherlands. A member of the Albiceleste squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™, he made three appearances, two as a substitute, but remained on the bench during the quarter-final exit against the host nation.

Part of the Argentina side beaten by arch-rivals Brazil in the final of the 2007 Copa America, the following year Messi was a key figure in the team which stormed to gold at the Olympic Football Tournament in Beijing. And though he is yet to hit the heights of his club form in the blue-and-white of Argentina, Messi is determined to do that come South Africa 2010: “In order to become a legend, I have to win the World Cup,” he says.

Source : FIFA