Cristiano Ronaldo saved my life,confesses best friend and footballer, semedo

30 years old sheffield wednesday player jose semedo says his career and life would have been over if not for superstar footballer cristiano ronaldo.The Real Madrid player and jose semedo were once players at sporting lisbon's academy and he would have been chased out of the academy had cr7 not intervened.Sheffield wanted to axe the midfielder at the time but Ronaldo told the club if the axed jose they would have to axe him too,leading the club to change thier mind.

Speaking to The Times,semedo said; He said they could put an extra bed in his room and that we could share a cupboard for his clothes. He said that if i went, he would too. I owe everything i have to him. The place i am from in setubal is not a good place for any young man because of the level of crime there. Some of my friends from there were involved in crime. Some of them are dead now, or in jail. If i had had gone back, maybe i would have stolen cars with them. H e changed my life. My family, my children, my career.it's all because of him.