You can be the most influential football player on the planet, but still be rejected for the smallest, most mundane things in everyday life.

That’s what Cristiano Ronaldo experienced, as revealed by Portuguese journalist Adriano Silva Mertens this Saturday on the V+Fama show.

According to his information, Ronaldo and his partner Georgina Rodríguez were in fact refused the enrollment of their children by the San Julian educational center, one of the most exclusive and important in Portugal.

The reason? A desire to protect other students, while some parents had expressed concern about their children’s privacy.

“They don’t want the school to become the center of constant news and think that the presence of the couple’s children would change the daily dynamics of the center,” explained the journalist. This situation is a reminder of how difficult it is sometimes to lead a normal life when you reach such a level of popularity.