That Ronaldo sure knows how to party!

[wHATcOLOR]

he was with 3 transvestite prostitutes. a guy's gotta unwind somehow, am i right?


http://www.latimes.com/sports/printe...,1550049.story

The soccer superstar's implosion over run-in with three transvestites in Rio de Janeiro has been aired almost gleefully, but he faces the media and realizes he can't erase this from his reputation.
By Grahame L. Jones, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 6, 2008
It's time someone showed a little compassion for Ronaldo.

Whenever a superstar of his magnitude implodes -- as he most certainly did in his recent run-in with three transvestites in Rio de Janeiro -- the delight in exposing such personal fallibility extends far beyond the trashy tabloids or talking heads on lowbrow television.

There is almost glee in the media coverage. The titillation factor too comes into play in Ronaldo's calamitous fall from grace. A night out at a bar and disco, the invitation to three prostitutes to accompany him to a nearby motel, the humiliating but sadly belated discovery that they were, in fact, men and not women, all add up to prime tabloid fodder.

Throw in the fact that Ronaldo -- three-time FIFA world player of the year, two-time World Cup winner and United Nations goodwill ambassador -- offered to pay the unsavory trio just to leave and be done with it, and the fact that one of the three allegedly tried to extort more money by threatening to reveal all to the media, and you have all the makings of a steamy Brazilian soap opera.

This is not what Ronaldo had in mind when he returned to Rio to recuperate after knee surgery had prematurely ended his season with AC Milan.

But the injury, combined with the fact that he will turn 32 in September and that the best days of his career are very much behind him, have served to leave Ronaldo more than a little downcast.

His depressed state of mind was made worse, apparently, by an argument with his girlfriend that led him to stomp -- perhaps limp might be a better verb, given the state of his knee -- to a nightclub in search of solace.

Instead, it led to worldwide snickering and ridicule.

To his credit, he is facing up to the fact that this is one stain on his reputation that no amount of scrubbing will remove. It has nothing to do with his soccer abilities but everything to do with his character.

He could win three more World Cups, but there will always be those who will ask, "Wasn't he the guy who . . . ?" But Ronaldo is not the first, and certainly will not be the last, to run afoul of prostitutes. There currently are world-class players on world-class teams whose personal lives are anything but salutary.

On Sunday night, Ronaldo tried valiantly to repair some of the damage and he agreed to an interview with Globo television in Brazil and was candid almost to a fault.

"I've done something really stupid in my personal life," he said. "We are all subject to making mistakes and I made a mistake in looking for this. I did not at any moment know they were transvestites.

"I cried a lot afterward. I was incredibly ashamed."

That is about as honest an answer as you can get.

"It took on a very big dimension and had worldwide repercussion," he said. "It will stain my personal life forever. For the sensationalist media, this has had a bigger impact than the World Cup."

The best of scriptwriters could not have matched what actually happened in that motel lobby.

"I did not know they were transvestites, I'm completely heterosexual," Ronaldo told Globo. "When we got to the place, I concluded that they were transvestites."

Facing his girlfriend when he eventually arrived home must have made it an exceptionally long night for Ronaldo. For now, Ronaldo will continue his recuperation. His contract with AC Milan ends next month. The Italian club is unlikely to make him a new offer. Flamengo of Brazil is interested in signing him.

The years will pass. The incident will be gather dust and eventually be supplanted by some other scandal involving some other athlete. Ronaldo has scaled the heights and plumbed the depths. He is guilty of nothing but bad judgment. A bit of compassion would not come amiss.

"Behind the personality which I carry, I'm a normal person and I have my weaknesses and my fears," he said. "I have to reconstruct everything. It's like a house which has been knocked down by a hurricane. Now I have to build it all over again."

[hnibos]

were all capable of this mistake

[Sam Vimes]

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[wally]

that's a pretty ugly ****** prostitute