The phenomenon has revealed his decision to the South American press: "I have closed the factory of children."
Ronaldo Brazilian newspaper revealed yesterday `Folha de Sao Paulo 'that has had a vasectomy, thus ending their offspring. "I closed the factory children," said the Brazilian star, a father of four children by three different women: Ronald, Alex, Mary Sophia and Mary Alice.
The oldest, Ronald (10 years) is the result of its relationship with Brazilian footballer Milene Domingues. Her second child is Alex (5 years), the result of a casual relationship with Michelle Umezu when he was in Japan to play a friendly against Real Madrid in 2004. For his part, his daughters Maria Sofia (2 years) and Mary Alice (9 months) were born of his current marriage Bia Anthony.
Ronaldo did not recognize until this year the second of his four children after Michele Umezu, a Japanese-Brazilian waitress, to obtain recognition of their paternity in court. "It's a shame that we lost these years of living together," said Ronaldo, "but Michelle has gone directly to court without my knowing nothing and justice is very slow, so we met recently" Ronaldo said in that day.
"My son joined the family in the most natural and now we are an even bigger family," he said. But enough is enough, so decided to close the factory children.
Pelé himself decided to undergo a vasectomy years ago after several contingencies of paternity, but later repented and turned to artificial insemination to impregnate his second wife, with whom he has twins.