Ronaldo confirmed mental issue during career

Ronaldo Nazario claimed that he had many mental problems during his football career.

The former Brazilian star is known as one of the best in football history and has won many honors. He is one of the few players who managed to win the World Cup twice and has won many team and individual honors. However, due to health problems, he suffered a severe decline towards the end of his football career and ended up retiring earlier than expected. Now he claimed that he was depressed because of these events.

He said:

“Yes, nowadays I do therapy. I have been going for two and a half years and I have a much better understanding, even of things I felt before.”

“But well, I am from a generation where they threw you into the arena and you have to do the best you could without the slightest possibility of drama. I look back and I see that yes, we were exposed to a very very big mental stress and without any preparation for that.”

Thus, he is happy that nowadays the situation had changed. He added:

“Also because it was the start of the internet era, with the speed that information travels at. In that period there was no form of concern for the mental health of the players. Now they are much better prepared, they are given medical attention, including the necessary attention in order to tackle every day and all of the players are studied more: the profiles of everyone, how they react, how they should react….”

“In my era there was nothing of the sort, unfortunately because it has been known forever that football can put [you] under a lot of stress and it can be very determinative for the rest of your life.”

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