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Ronaldo's Ex-Best Friend and Teammate Fabio Ferreira: Portugal's Lost Talent

Before Cristiano Ronaldo was a household name, the world's most famous footballer was just Roni, a scrawny kid on Sporting CP who got teased relentlessly for by teammates for "driving the Ferrari."

He had moved from his island home, Madeira, to the mainland to try to make it with the club, one of Portugal's biggest, but he couldn't seem to get to his classes. The punishment for truancy was to carry a large and heavy trash cart—the Ferrari—out of the original Estadio Jose Alvalade.

"Vroom, vroom," they would repeat, laughing, as he performed the unenviable task.