For the first time in a long successful career on the pitch,events off the pitch have over shadowed CR7’s events on the pitch, with the four time ballon dór winner being accused of rape.
What started as just a small storm in a tea cup has now seen the Club shares drop by 7%, and stock dropping by 13%, since a British lady came up to make rape accusations against the star. With some footage showing Ronaldo and the lady interacting in a friendly manner at a Las Vegas night club.
Following the scandal, the 33 year old has been left out of the next two upcoming international games against both Poland and Scotland.
Ronaldo has also been in a commercial deal with Nike a United States based sports wear company since 2003 and in 2016 had recently signed a lifetime deal worth over a billion US dollars. However, the sponsors have also come out to say that “they are deeply concerned by the disturbing allegations.”
According to Kathryn,the incident took place in 2009 after a night out with the footballer at a Las Vegas Club. After the incident, through his ”fixers,” a sum of 375,000 USD was paid to Kathryn to “make it go away,” and after several years of silence, and psychological torture,Kathryn has decided to come forward.
She has decided to demand for “justice” after seeing several members of the women group in the United States called ME TOO, who through their on going #Metoo campaign,which constitutes of “outing”and shaming prominent and famous men who had sexually assaulted them over the years and “gotten away” with it,with Ronaldo being the latest culprit.
However, both the footballer and his new Las vegas lawyer have come out and outrightly denied the accusations with the footballer going on to say “This goes against everything that I am and believe.”
The Portuguese national team and the Juventus football club have come out to state that the player has their full support and backing. Ronaldo’s girlfriend has also come out to state the same.
He also scored over the second goal over the weekend in Juventus 2-0 win over udinese to add to the teams excellent start to the season with Eight wins out of their starting eight games.