In this year's European Championship, there has been a lot of debate about the role of politics in football. But in yesterday's match between Portugal and France, there was actually a political connection which has not really been talked about.
Cristiano Ronaldo is named after Ronald Reagan. Portugal's all-time great star was born in 1985, about halfway through Reagan's presidency, and Ronaldo's father was such a big fan of the man that it simply had to be included in his son Cristiano's name.
However, it was not so much the politics that the father liked. Before he became a politician, Reagan was an actor - and it was the actor Ronald Reagan that Cristiano Ronaldo's father was a big fan of.
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