Erling Haaland ¹

My name is Aliah Soleil Dos Santos, Cristiano Ronaldo's eldest daughter. Growing up with the Dos Santos name was never easy. My dad was always very protective, strict, and had rules for everything. The only person who knew my true personality was my best friend, Anna Lucia.

After a heated argument with my parents, I took advantage of something they knew all too well: when I get angry, I tend to lock myself in my room for days. That night, Anna and I escaped through the window and took a flight to Italy. Our plan was simple: spend four days there and return before anyone suspected a thing. Besides, Anna had a special reason to go. Her boyfriend, Martin Ødegaard, was playing in the Italy-Norway match.

Everything was perfect… until the game arrived.

In the final minutes, Erling Haaland took a penalty. Nobody expected what happened. The shot went wide and the ball hit me directly in the face. After that, I only remember the sound of the stadium fading and everything going black.

I woke up in an Italian hospital.

The news spread around the world in a matter of hours. My parents discovered where I was and that I had fled the country. The perfect plan had ended in disaster.

What I never imagined was that Erling Haaland himself would start visiting me every day to apologize. At first, our conversations were awkward, but little by little they transformed into laughter, trust, and a connection impossible to ignore. When I was discharged from the hospital, we continued seeing each other secretly until, without realizing it, we started dating.

For the first time, I felt that someone saw me as Aliah, not as "Cristiano Ronaldo's daughter".

But the happiness was short-lived.

When I returned to Portugal, my father already knew everything. Without raising his voice, he took away my phone, my computer, my tablet, and any way I could communicate with the outside world.

His last sentence was the one that hurt me the most:

“I don’t want to see you with that boy again.”