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Ping pong wizard Cristiano Ronaldo could have gone pro


CR9 was a regular Forrest Gump…

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Cristiano Ronaldo claims he was advised to quit football for his other childhood obsession, ping pong. In his upcoming autobiography, Momentos (we’re sure you can’t wait), the Portuguese man-o-sex reveals he could have just as easily been winking across a table instead of a football pitch:

After football, ping pong is my favorite sport. I love to watch professional games and I like to play. I started playing as a boy in my neighborhood and at school. When I moved to the school of Sporting [CP], I kept playing ping pong.

The Spoiler hopes this isn’t a direct quote from the book, because it reads like a four-year-old’s back-to-school recount of what they did over summer. Anyway:

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Posted: November 19th, 2009 by Richard Gilzene

Move over Forrest Gump, there’s a new table tennis champ in town!


It may be an advert and a fake, but it’s still bloody good

The Spoiler’s first foray into the exciting world of ping pong sees Bruce Lee OWNING the table with a set of nunchakus.

It’s good to see that 35 years after his death, the martial artist’s legend is living on via the medium of peddling mobile phones.

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Posted: December 2nd, 2008 by Ryan Bailey