'Alex is my son'
THAT'S my boy!
Brazilian football star Ronaldo confirmed yesterday via his
official Twitter account that he is the biological father of
five-year-old boy Alexander, whose mother Michele Umezu he had
slept with in 2004.
'The result of the exam verified what my feelings showed me at
the moment when I saw Alex,' he tweeted in Portuguese in his first
post on Tuesday night.
The three-time Fifa World Player of the Year had met Alex on
Sunday in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where his current club Corinthians is
based.
The next day, he underwent a DNA test which later proved that
the child, whom guests at a reception hosted by the Brazilian
embassy in Singapore earlier this year noted bore a striking
resemblance to the two-time World Cup winner, was indeed his
own.
'Alex is my son, the brother of three more beautiful children
like him,' wrote Ronaldo, 34. 'And I will always be a father with
all the pleasures and duties. Welcome.'
-- ST
