Madrid, 2016. In a Gucci store on the Golden Mile, a 22-year-old young woman arranges bags and perfumes. She does not know that day is going to change her entire life.
A customer walks in. Tall, well-known, with the reputation of being the best footballer on the planet. Cristiano Ronaldo has just broken up with Irina Shayk and arrives accompanied by friends, looking for nothing more than an ordinary purchase.
But he looks at her. And something stops.
Georgina Rodríguez told it this way: she felt time stand still. Cristiano, years later, would put it in other words in an interview with Corriere della Sera: it was love at first sight.
There was no phone number that afternoon. There were no promises. Just a look that lingered in the air, like an unanswered question.
Destiny, as in those movies no one believes until they happen to them, decided not to leave it there. Days later, their paths crossed again at another event in the city. This time, he was the one who approached first.
From then on, there was no stopping. A sales assistant and a footballer, two strangers until that afternoon, began a story that the whole world would end up following.
Ten years later, in August of this year, Cristiano and Georgina confirmed that they are now married. They posted a photo of their joined hands, wearing their rings, with just two letters as a message: C and G. They also have 5 children; the first was only Cristiano’s, but Georgina loves him as her own.
Sometimes love does not need dates or speeches. Just a store, a look, and the courage not to let it pass by.