João Félix: The young star that irritates Cristiano Ronaldo

The new Portuguese star has generated suspicion in his idol, Cristiano Ronaldo. Felix's family is cautious but they are aware of their projection

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In Eva naked , the iconic 1950 film, Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, the brand new theater star who is overshadowed by Eve Harrington, a very young rival who appears out of nowhere. The mature figuranta initially shows some benevolence towards the novice, but eventually loses her patience to see how the new promise is replacing her; Towards the end of the movie, the veteran explodes when she realizes that her opponent has stolen the respect of critics and the love of the public.

While we have not yet reached the melodrama of the classic Joseph Mankiewicz, a situation parallel to that narrated has developed in the sports field this season, with two Portuguese - Cristiano Ronaldo (34) and the very young João Félix (19) - doing of protagonists of the movie. In recent weeks the Juventus striker and national hero of Portugal has not managed to hide his anger at seeing how the world of football surrenders to Felix, the great signing of Atlético de Madrid that has become a real sensation this summer.

With only 19 years of age, the Menino de Oro had barely completed his debut year playing for Benfica when it was acquired by the rojiblanco club last July. The transfer cost 126 million euros, an astronomical sum that made the signing the most expensive in the history of the team, and although Felix had shown undoubted talent - in April he became the youngest player to score a triplet in the League UEFA European - many doubted that the child could be worth so much money.

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However, Felix showed his courage from the first moment , scoring a goal in the Madrid derby held in New York at the end of July, and then silently doubting the skeptics in the friendly match against Juventus two weeks ago in Stockholm. Everyone anticipated that Ronaldo would be the great protagonist of the night, but in the end it was the young man who took the glory by scoring two goals that left the international press crazy and declaring that a star was born that night .

Initially the veteran was magnanimous and even seemed to celebrate the triumph of his countryman, but later he has been irritated to be asked about Felix. In interviews with the Portuguese press, Ronaldo has conditioned the praise he dedicates to the young man, who qualifies as a great player who still has a lot of "evolution" ahead . In an interview with the TVI network, the striker even questioned the amount of money that Atlético had invested in the signing of Felix -14 million euros more than the 112 that Juventus paid for his own transfer a year ago- and it seemed Show doubts about the value of the pipiolus .

"It is difficult to make calculations in football now," he said, who said he disagrees with the way things are done today, and said that, today, it seems that "any player is worth 100 million, even without having demonstrated anything. "

João Félix and Cristiano Ronaldo in a football match DIEGO G SOUTO

For now, Felix has avoided responding to Ronaldo's comments , which may have been painful for a young man who has always qualified the striker as a personal "idol." Instead of entering the rag, Atlético's signing has focused on training with the rojiblanco club and preparing for a season that promises to be intense.

Son of Carla and Carlos Félix, a couple of upper-middle class teachers, João has been obsessed with football from the earliest age, to such an extent that his parents say he "learned to hit the ball rather than walk ". Both were fundamental in its development: the patriarch of the family, who acts as an athletic trainer, did everything possible to direct the son's sports career, while the mother is the moral link to whom he apparently tells everything. They admit to being "worried" when they see the 19-year-old claimed by the whole world, but they also fail to hide the pride they feel from having such a star as a child.

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