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Date:
2008-07-13
Time: 12:34:35
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FOOTBALLER Cristiano Ronaldo is being lined
up to star in a multi-million dollar remake
of the epic TV series Roots.
Producers say the star's treatment at the
hands of Manchester United make him the
perfect choice to portray the young African
slave who is beaten by his brutal masters.
The Portuguese winger said he had been
traumatised by 'outrageous' demands that he
honour the £125,000 a week, legally-binding
contract, which has brought him only, misery,
adulation and Gemma Atkinson.
Speaking from the titanium gazebo in the rose
garden of his 31-room mansion, Ronaldo said:
"I feel I can relate to the suffering of
African slaves.
"If anything, it is worse, because
footballers cannot sing while we work,
whereas they had time to develop gospel music
during their 16-hours shifts before dropping
dead from exhaustion."
In the series a young African boy is dragged
from his homeland and shipped to America
where he is forced to work in the fields by a
cruel and violent plantation owner.
"The similarities are uncanny, though
admittedly, the Lear Jet that flew me from
Lisbon to Manchester wasn't packed with 150
other players sleeping head-to-toe."
Ronaldo also conceded that, while the
slave-master in Roots administered brutal
beatings, Man Utd boss Sir Alex Ferguson had
nurtured his talent, lavished him with praise
and turned him into one of the best
footballers in the world.
"But without the freedom to do whatever I
want, wherever I want, for whatever fee I
want, I am exactly the same as a cotton
picker forced to live in a shed, dying at the
age of 32."
He added: "I know the people will love my
acting. Already, in the streets, I hear many
of them calling
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