By EFE
Dec 26, 2024, 09:37 AM EST
The Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo He spent Christmas with his wife, Georgina Rodriguezand their children in the Scandinavian region of Lapland, where ‘met’ Santa Claus and bathed in water at sub-zero temperatures.
The Saudi Al-Nassr player published two videos on his social networks of his vacation in Rovaniemi (Finland), where Santa Claus’s home is located.
In the first recording, more than nine minutes long, he appears at the beginning and at the end only with his wife. to congratulate the holidays and express your best wishes for 2025.
Cristiano wants next year “to be similar to this one or better” in regards to family, friends and professionally; while Georgina asks for “health for all”, in addition to peace in the world, that her children grow up healthy and strong and that they can see it.
They have traveled to Lapland with their children Cristiano Jr., twins Eva and Mateo, Alana Martina and Bella Esmeraldawith whom they went to visit Santa Claus, wrote him letters and learned to make gingerbread cookies with the elves.
The footballer explains in the video that Georgina really likes this place “because she came here three years ago and the children love it.”
In a second recording, filmed by Georgina herself with a mobile phone, Cristiano appears in his underwear outdoors and indicates in English that the temperature is -20 °C. Then, he points to the water of a pool in front of him and says “-2” and then goes down some stairs and submerges, leaving only his head out.
The player lasts almost a minute in the water. There is a moment when he says in Portuguese to his son Cristiano Jr. who is watching him from outside, “it’s very cold,” to which the boy smiles.
Then, Georgina jokes with the young man “Come on, just dare your feet,” to which the teenager responds “and why don’t you get in?” and she answers, laughing, “me, one foot.”
Finally Cristiano gets out of the water and takes a mini-walk without going directly inside the house.
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