Birth Name: Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date of Birth: 18 september 1976
Ethnicity: Afro-Brazilian, Portuguese
Family info: Ronaldo is a retired Brazilian footballer. Ronaldo made a comment regarding racism in Football;
“I think that all blacks suffer (with racism). I, that am white, suffer because of so much ignorance.”
In response to this his father Nélio Nazário de Lima, Snr. a dark skinned Afro-Brazilian, stated;
“He knows quite well that he is black…In truth, at the time I thought it was some type of philosophy, something in this sense….because he knows that he is black.”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronaldo
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