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Ronaldo Nazário revealed his best-kept secrets: parties, anecdotes, and injuries

The former Brazilian player broke the silence about his life off the field, his exclusive celebrations, and the drama he experienced with injuries

27/03/2025 14:10:00h

Editorial Team

Ronaldo Nazário spoke for the first time about the legendary private parties he organized during his career. The former striker of Cruzeiro, PSV, Barcelona, Inter, Real Madrid, Milan, and Corinthians revealed anecdotes from his life that he had kept secret until now.

"I was at all of them. I would go to train on Mondays at 10:00 in the morning after the party. I played on Saturday, then traveled to Paris, spent Sunday there, and at night organized the party. At seven in the morning on Monday, I took a plane to Madrid, arrived at 9:00, and went straight to training. I did it many times," confessed the Brazilian, 48, on the Brazilian streaming Charla Podcast.

A man in the center wearing a white t-jersey is kissed on the cheeks by two women, one on each side.

Ronaldo really liked the night | La Derecha Diario

Ronaldo explained the theory he applied during his professional career: "In the city where you play, either you throw a party at your house or you sign your death. So I diversified and traveled. I was always into organizing events, setting up high-level things. I made sure everyone had a good time," he recounted.

The time a teammate drank a 10,000-euro bottle of wine he had bought

Il Fenómeno recalled an episode with Vampeta, his teammate at Inter Milan. "He stayed at my house, and I had a cellar with 100 bottles. I went to Brazil, and when I returned, he had drunk everything. In two weeks, he finished all the wine bottles and kept looking for more. Until he found a very special one," he began to tell.

"It was a 1976 bottle, my birth year, which I had bought at a restaurant in Paris for 10,000 euros. It was an expensive wine that I intended to keep for its symbolic value. He and his friends, in my apartment, opened the bottle and served the wine in plastic cups. He said it was warm and put ice in it," he recounted.

A smiling man in a dark suit holds a bottle of wine at an event.

A colleague drank a bottle of wine that was very important to him | La Derecha Diario

"He tells this story as 'the Pope's wine,' but it was my wine, the one I had bought. I had kept it because it had a special meaning," concluded R9.

His terror with injuries

The current owner of Real Valladolid in Spain also spoke about his injuries and acknowledged that his ordeal began in 1998. "I felt a slight tendinitis, but I finished the World Cup well," he explained.

"I thought it was something normal, that happens to many players. But in 1999, it started to worsen until the tendon partially ruptured. At Inter, we made a mistake by only partially sewing it, but no one imagined that six months later it would completely rupture," he detailed.

A player in a blue and black uniform is on the ground holding his leg with a pained expression.

Ronaldo's tendon rupture marked a turning point in his career | La Derecha Diario

"When it happened, at first I thought someone had thrown a stone at me or shot me. I fell, and when I put my hand on my knee, I realized something had broken. I started to cry, not from pain, but from fear. I asked myself, 'What is happening to me?', I felt that my career and my life were over," he recalled.

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