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...Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the two best footballers of their generation, both made blockbuster moves....
...“[Established sports teams] are used to buying LeBron James or Cristiano Ronaldo and automatically selling millions of jerseys,” he says. “They’re not used to having to relate to the people.”...
...Now, with all the predictability of a Cristiano Ronaldo header, comes The Real Madrid Way....
...Doing so would also mean breaking the law in the US, according to Katitza Rodriguez, international rights director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group based in San Francisco....
...He uses Portugal as an entry point to Europe for South American players: Falcão, Rodríguez, Di María and Costa have all passed through....
...Real Madrid snapped up Colombian midfielder James Rodriguez, the World Cup’s hottest property, in a six-year deal expected to cost the Champions League winners €80m....
...The Seleção reached the semi-final after kicking Colombia’s playmaker James Rodriguez throughout the quarter-final....
...deal was reported to be worth a salary of €20m (£18m, $29m) a year to Eto’o, equivalent to £340,000 a week, and puts the 30-year-old comfortably ahead of the sport’s previous highest earners, Cristiano Ronaldo...
...Even Americans have searched more for Ronaldo this year than for many of their own best athletes, such as Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and Shaquille O’Neal....
...Cristiano Ronaldo....
...José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has not endeared himself to Madrid fans by being the first democratically elected prime minister to declare himself a Barcelona fan....
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