Soccer superstar Ronaldo has signed up to be the star subject in feature-length football documentary Shooting Star.

Along with being the main interviewee, the Brazilian striker will represent the fatherhood section as the film explores the seven stages of life - including birth, boyhood, adolescence, manhood, mid-life crisis and old age - through soccer.

Director Elizabeth McIntyre is shooting the film in Brazil, UK and France until the end of next month. Producer Adrian Milne is aiming for a theatrical release in early 2002 and a world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February.

Subjects for the film's other ages range from a kid trying to collect enough tin cans to exchange for money to buy a football ticket, to Rivaldo, the Barcelona and Brazilian star midfielder.

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