Ronaldo pays $83,000 for 10-month-old’s brain surgery

Cristiano Ronaldo was asked to donate his cleats and used jersey for a charity auction benefitting a 10-month-old child suffering from a brain disorder. The world's top soccer player went a little further than that.

Ronaldo, the Real Madrid star who was Fifa's Ballon d'Or winner as the world's top player, will pay the full $83,000 cost of the surgery http://futbol.as.com/futbol/2014/03/11/primera/1394535751_844785.html  for young Erik Ortiz Cruz.

Not so long ago,  Real Madrid  superstar  Cristiano Ronaldo http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/teams/real-madrid  was regarded as an arrogant, bratty, prima donna who was far too concerned with how his hair looked to think about others. Now, the current World Player of the Year appears to be taking his role as one of the biggest sports stars in the world with maturity and compassion, as proven by his latest act of generosity. http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/players/cristiano-ronaldo

Spanish newspaper  AS http://futbol.as.com/futbol/2014/03/11/primera/1394535751_844785.html  revealed that the family of a 10-month-old boy with cortical dysplasia — a rare brain disorder that causes dozens of daily seizures — was looking to raise €60,000 ($83,000) to raise money for a vital operation.

Ronaldo — the current leading scorer in the Champions League and La Liga — was asked to donate a shirt and pair of boots to help raise funds for little  Erik Ortiz Cruz https://twitter.com/TodoSomosErik , a request with which he duly obliged. But that's not where the Portuguese star's contribution ended: he has also offered to pay the full cost of the operation.

The donation may only represent around 20% of his mammoth weekly earnings, but it's an extremely classy gesture from a man who has used his financial means to help  plenty of sick kids  on the Iberian Peninsula in the past few years.  In 2012, for example, he  paid for the cancer treatment  http://www.ronaldo7.net/news/archive/369-cristiano-ronaldo-launched-an-appeal-for-bone-marrow-donation.html of a 9-year-old fan. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/cristiano-ronaldo-agent-paying-nine-old-cancer-treatment-042054954--sow.html

Even the staunchest Leo Messi fanboy will agree that it's getting harder and harder to dislike Cristiano Ronaldo.

 
 
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