Random: It Looks Like Soccer Star Cristiano Ronaldo Might Be A Super Mario Odyssey Fan

... or is just addicted to endorsements...

I’d trash him in Mario kart any day,
Everyone else in this comment section probably would trash him too

I wonder if he, like that world famous Japanese tennis player, also plays Pokémon? NL, please investigate this further!

When is NL reporting on me? I play games and I’m pretty famous within my household. Worth an article right?

Considering the current circumstances involving him, bit odd to run with this story...

I don't even like sports, but I'm coming to these articles just to see all the people getting triggered in the comments. lol

I like articles likes these, because it can show that gaming isn't just something enjoyed by fat nerds in their parents' basements, like the mainstream media so often likes to suggest.

[edit] I was not aware that this guy is apparently a rapist or something? At least a lot of people seem to be suggesting that. I knew literally nothing about this guy as I don't honestly care about sports and find athlete worship unhealthy... But I hold that my point in general still stands, I enjoy these articles both because they can show that gaming is not just something enjoyed by lazy fat nerds in their mothers' basements.

@SouthpawGrammar Seriously. When I saw that FIFA ‘19, a game I want to purchase and play, took a price drop on the eShop I still said NOPE, get that rapist off the cover and then maybe we’ll talk.

FORZA JUVE!!!!!
I follow Juve religiously (profile pic and name), and can confirm that on long flights some of the players keep themselves busy with the Nintendo Switch.

@Heavyarms55 by "all the people" are you referring to that single comment by myself? Is that all it takes to qualify as 'triggered'?

My point was that he's undergoing serious allegations atm, so until a conclusion is made either way, perhaps er on the side of caution. Particulary on a Nintendo site etc. Just my 2 cents that's all.

Famous people like video games too OMG!

@nofriendo @purplesodium See that's the problem with allegations being made public, people like yourself presume guilt before innocence. Even worse, when his name is inevitably cleared of any wrong doing, you'll likely dismiss it saying he probably paid her off. Shame on the pair of you!

It`s just like what happened to a Brazilian in Bolivia. A woman started to scream that he was a thief, so people hung him in the public square. He was a brick layer. These unfounded allegations, these so called movements are ending the lives of good, honest people.

@OorWullie He admitted to the actions she accused him of. His actions being made public seem to have had zero consequences for him. THAT, to me, is the problem.

there's only one super mario over there and that's mandžukić lol

Read something in the paper, man must be a rapist... Flippen heck, innocent till proven guilty guys, the man is not a rapist, you will see.

@MattFox so it’s OK to rape prostitutes? Got it.

@Captain_EO “person i like accused of something bad, must be given benefit of the doubt!” Because there are way more instances of people being falsely accused than there are of sexual violence against women going underreported, uninvestigated and unprosecuted. I implore everyone to look at the statistics on this. And to watch Nanette on Netflix. You don’t have to be an evil attacker to be a rapist. These blurred lines have put assaulters at an advantage and their victims at a disadvantage since the beginning of time. Ronaldo can be an extraordinary footballer and a man who raped someone. We can hold two opposing ideas in our heads at the same time. I don’t understand why we wouldn’t hold our (male) idols to high standards of conduct rather than give them license to do horrible things to women without consequence. Unless, of course, that’s secretly how we all wish we could behave...

@nofriendo I dont think you`re aware of what prostitution means? She had sex with him willingly so she could charge him. Thats the essence of what prostitution is.

@MattFox First off, she wasn’t a prostitute. Prostitution is legal in Nevada, and that was not her profession. Second off, even if it was her profession, it’s still rape, by definition, if you force somebody to have sex with you without their consent. Simple. If you don’t agree with that, I hope to God the women in your life know that about you.

@nofriendo God, or lack thereof, has nothing to do with decency. Who says it was without her consent? People like you who like to play Judge are whats wrong with our society. You condemn the guy just because you don`t like him. Dont bother responding, I won`t waste any more time on petty, sad people like you.

@MattFox Dude, I love(d) Ronaldo! And there IS someone saying that it happened without consent: the plaintiff. Unfortunately, tragically, we don’t know how and until recently haven’t had the collective will to effectively prosecute sex crimes that aren’t perpetrated by masked midnight attackers. I know we can do better. A lot of people are working very hard to make that happen. Until it does, I think it’s incumbent upon me to listen to women when they speak up about this, and to push back against fellas who seem a little too eager to presume and defend the innocence of wealthy and powerful men. Thassall. I don’t feel sad. I actually feel great about it.

How come we didn’t get an article about Stormy Daniels being a Mario Kart fan?

It's probably my ignorance of anything relating to soccer but I can honestly say I didn't expect the comments section to go in the direction it has.

@OorWullie #12 so much this!
Thank you for using some common sense mate, I didn’t know it was allowed on the internet 🤓

@MattFox whilst I agree with innocent until proven guilty there seems to be quite a bit of evidence to say he may have done something wrong. If you can find the actual report that was publicised it highlights many aspects that point to a possible rape, hush money and now lawyers trying to cover it up. It will be interesting how it plays out.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/how-ronaldo-legal-team-dealt-with-rape-accusations-a-1231779.html

@nofriendo I am neither a United, Juventas or Real Madrid fan, I have a slight dislike of the man in question actually, being a Liverpool man, but I detest false allegations, and despise how people are so willing to believe and exploit the worst, before they have a chance to hear the truth... which usually neither they or the media or particularly interested in.

Who?..

indeed random..

Forever a cheating winker.

@Captain_EO Fair enough. But I would argue that the opposite, in fact, is what’s happening here, and what always happens. A public figure with millions of adoring fans and practically unlimited wealth and status gets accused of something terrible, and everyone jumps to his defense, claiming to detest false accusations, of which there are a vanishingly small amount in reality, but not in people’s heads, and we are left with a chorus of men trying to shout down the victim and her defenders, all in the name of fairness and “innocent until proven guilty.” Seriously, let’s see all this evidence of false accusations. It just isn’t there. Meanwhile, there’s a staggering amount of evidence of underreported sexual assault, of hundreds of thousands of rape kits going untested in police departments around the world, of careers and lives and reputations ruined... not of the men who commit the crimes, but of the women who dare to come forward about them. How can people say it’s more important to them that a man’s career and reputation not be ruined than that women finally have access to justice? It’s mindboggling, really.

@nofriendo well I will level with you, I don't know enough about this particular case to comment so I shouldn't have... but I was triggered by the comments calling him a rapist when, right now, the truth is simply unknown. I am, obviously, a Michael Jackson fan, and false allegations in 1993 ruined him and as the most popular man alive, and a black man at that, you better believe that he had literally no one on his side. I was around in 1993 and it was a shameless, despicable witch hunt, it was a frenzy the like of which we'll never see again.

@Captain_EO I hear you. It’s hard to be objective about such an artificially polarized issue. And I think it’s very telling that the only recent high profile conviction of a famous serial rapist is a black man, Bill Cosby. And the dynamic is different when the victim is a male child, as in the case of Michael Jackson, unless it’s not a famous black and maybe gay man and instead a priest, in which case we allow it to go unchecked as thousands of boys and girls are raped while their rapists get shuffled around from church to church. We are so screwed up about this. There is so much work to do.

Soccer? Never heard of that.

@Equinox Muhammad is pleased by your subversion attempts, mashallah.

@Patendo Yours was a sensible comment. I know about the lawyers and the hush money. From my perspective she was pretty much blackmailing him, seeing as how nowadays any allegation via whatever social media is enough to destroy someone`s career.

Just one thing. If it was an actual rape, why did she take money to not pursue the case legally? In my eyes, as soon as she did that she attested to her real agenda, which was money. I could be wrong either way, but thats what I think...

@nofriendo Michael Jackson was the victim, the young boy was a victim of his parents greed, specifically his father, who killed himself shortly after Jackson died, following a confrontation where he attacked his son. The boy got legally emancipated from both parents after THEY scarred him for life.

@purplesodium don't be a tool

I came here to show my indignation about the Soccer term used, knowing that in the UK is football!

I love the whole don't judge this person just the person I tell you to judge going on here. It's so productive and not at all an example of what you're all also ranting against.

@nofriendo gotta say man, I was wildly surprised by the responses your comments are getting. Sometimes I think the world's gone crazy.

Here's a man in a very privileged position, being accused of something awful with enough evidence to at least support the POSSIBILITY he did something heinous. And here is a comment section decrying YOU for pointing this out and, in some cases, entirely dismissing that he ever could have for no other reason than being a fan of his.

My only guess is that the world has become desensitised to news stories like this now and, in a 'PC culture gone mad' mindset, jump to silence and dismiss genuine victims. It's just baffling.

Anyway, I just wanted to say well done you for sticking to your guns despite so many naysayers and doing so in an eloquently articulated way. Shockingly, there aren't enough people like you and, if there are, they're shouted down by the very vocal minority.

He'd thrash me in MKWii, but in MK8D.............. (insert thrashing noises)

@SouthpawGrammar Someone a bit self conscious? I was more speaking generally because a lot of people usually complain about these kinds of articles "famous person plays X game"...

Well, with 4 kids I am pretty sure he plays some Mario!

@MajorasLapdog neah, it's nothing new. You should never try to have these kind of conversations against a mob mentality especially when someone popular is involved. People tend to think with their personal feelings and also protect those supposedly "better than them". You yourself already have 3 dislikes, hopefully I can get more than you xD

@Heavyarms55 Nope. Was just curious if that was the case. All good.

I'd drop him at any game (barring football games as I don't know the rule and I hate football lol) he wouldn't stand a chance with me at MK

@MajorasLapdog As you Brits might say: thanks mate. Or the French: j'appreesh.

I know how toxic the gaming community is. I know how skewed toward anti-social, young white males it's historically been (at least here in the states). Which is why, as an adult, I've stayed well clear of it. But I've always been a Nintendo fan and recently I returned to gaming after a long hiatus to play the Switch. Apart from Kotaku, I don't visit other gaming sites, and NintendoLife is the only forum in which I participate. The tone of the site is congenial and light-hearted, as any Nintendo-dedicated publication should be. But the community is not. Maybe it's the internet "community" in general, which seems anything but, to be honest. More like a bunch of individuals who constitute communities of one, making hostile remarks to foreigners as they cower behind the ramparts of their anonymity.

Now, as an adult with a conscience who's had to change (or make up) his mind about so much over the last decade, I realize that not even Nintendo and a Nintendo fansite are free from the ills of society, because, of course, they're run by humans. Male humans.

I love video games. Specifically I love Nintendo games. If I count myself a member of the Nintendo community, then you better believe I'm going to take opportunities to make it better, and to answer the call of my conscience when doing so. At the best of times, it's something like a family on here, and as with any family, impassioned arguing is bound to occur. Feelings will be stomped on. Injustices carried out. But we should all understand the devastating effects of silence on the marginalized. And we should all, especially the men among us, get some skin in the game by reaching out to the people in our lives who are actually affected by the issues we so vehemently weigh in on without any direct experience of them. A great way to do that is to seek diversity in your community. And a good way to do THAT is to create a safe environment to encourage it.

Racism is bad for the racist. Misogyny is bad for the misogynist. Let's buy into a better system, where people don't need to lose for us to win. I think it's a sick culture that's driven some of us to always side with the powerful, to ignore the cries of the vulnerable and dispossessed. There's nothing in that for any of us. The illusion of power, maybe. No dignity. No respect.

The issues surrounding sexual assault are extremely complex. There's not enough nuance in the way we handle it as a society, there sure as hell won't be in a video game message board.

Yesterday was a dispiriting day as I watched my community defend a famous man accused of sexual assault and attack me for sticking up for the victim. But your message of support turned that right around.

Thanks for speaking up, mate.

@nofriendo not a problem, friend. At the end of the day, in a debate such as this, you will never talk somebody around. Someone with radical views will never switch up their viewpoint and, in a lot of cases, have decided that before anyone even begins to dispute their case. So, all we can really do is fight our corner, make the points we want to and let those with questionable standpoints at least know that what they think and say can be detrimental not only to individuals but to whole groups of people who continue to be attacked by those that their negative views have facilitated.

It's tough, man. In any situation, even in stories you look at and think 'that is cut and dry, black and white: this person is guilty and awful', any forum or comment section will have people defending them. I don't know what it is. Maybe people just hate the idea of conforming and being told how to feel, so the need to break out and contradict the general consensus wins.

I don't know. Just gave me some faith seeing your comments and nice to hear from you!

@MajorasLapdog @nofriendo Just wanted to add my voice and say nice on both of you to add some much needed rational counterpoints to this mob mentality. I'm honestly completely fed up with this sort of thing, and as such rarely engage in these discussions online. Still, I'm happy there are people who aren't as jaded as I am and are still willing to keep engaging.

As for Cristiano Ronaldo: yeah, he's probably in the top three footballers I've seen play in my lifetime, along with Lionel Messi and Ronaldo Nazario. Doesn't change the fact that there are documents proving his own admission to the rape charges. You people should stop being blind fanboys and get a grip.

@ricklongo haha I get it, sometimes I read a thread that is so full of negativity, narrow thinking and, in some cases, outright stupidity and my urge to fight back and make a case against them is outweighed by the wearying idea of having all of these people respond to me, unwilling to debate anything and instead just out to defend their thinking. I don't blame you at all for no longer engaging in online discussions like this but it is nice to hear from you in this case (:

@Captain_EO MJ is king!!!
Agree with you 100%

'Excited'? More like 'terrified'.