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As a teenager, Cristiano Ronaldo was so lanky he was nicknamed “Noodle” by his team-mates at Sporting Lisbon, says Paul Hirst in The Times. The young Portuguese footballer “was not happy with the moniker”, so he sneaked into the academy’s gym at night, secretly lifting weights to bulk up. Eventually staff caught him and chased him out, shouting at him for putting too much pressure on his body at such a young age.

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