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Biography
Cristiano Ronaldo is from Portugal who was born on February 5, 1985. He is currently 37 years old. Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United and captains the Portugal national team.
As a child, Ronaldo played for Andorinha from 1992 to 1995, where his father was the kit man, and later spent two years with Nacional. In 1997, aged 12, he went on a three-day trial with Sporting CP, who signed him for a fee of £1,500. He subsequently moved from Madeira to Alcochete, near Lisbon, to join Sporting’s youth academy. By age 14, Ronaldo believed he had the ability to play semi-professionally and agreed with his mother to cease his education to focus entirely on football. While popular with other students at school, he had been expelled after throwing a chair at his teacher, who he said had “disrespected” him. One year later, he was diagnosed with tachycardia, a condition that could have forced him to give up playing football. Ronaldo underwent heart surgery where a laser was used to cauterize multiple cardiac pathways into one, altering his resting heart rate. He was discharged from the hospital hours after the procedure and resumed training a few days later.
At age 16, Ronaldo was promoted from Sporting’s youth team by first-team manager László Bölöni, who was impressed with his dribbling.
He subsequently became the first player to play for the club’s under-16, under-17 and under-18 teams, the B team and the first team, all within a single season.
A year later, on 29 September 2002, Ronaldo made his debut in the Primeira Liga, against Braga and on 7 October, he scored two goals against Moreirense in their 3–0 win.
Over the course of the 2002–2003 season, his representatives suggested the player to Liverpool manager Gérard Houllier and Barcelona president Joan Laporta.
Manager Arsène Wenger, who was interested in signing Ronaldo, met with him at Arsenal’s grounds in November to discuss a possible transfer.
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson was decided to acquire Ronaldo on a permanent move urgently, after Sporting defeated United 3–1 at the inauguration of the Estádio José Alvalade in August 2003. Initially, United had planned to sign Ronaldo and loan him back to Sporting for a year. Having been impressed by him, the United players urged Ferguson to sign him. After the game, Ferguson agreed to pay Sporting £12.24 million for what he considered to be “one of the most exciting young players” he had ever seen. A decade after his departure from the club, in April 2013, sporting honored Ronaldo by selecting him to become their 100,000th member.
| Full Name: | Cristiano Ronaldo |
| Current team: | Portugal national football team |
| Born: | February 5, 1985 |
| Place of Birth: | Funchal, Portugal |
| Nationality: | Portuguese |
| Height: | 6 feet 1 inches |
| Parents: | Jose Dinis Aveiro (father) and Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro (mother) |
| Siblings: | Hugo dos Santos Aveiro, Katia Aveiro and Elma dos Santos Aveiro |
| Wife • Spouse: | Georgina Rodriguez |
| Children: | Cristiano Ronaldo jr, Alana Martina dos Santos Aveiro, Bella Esmeralda, Mateo Ronaldo, and Eva Maria Dos Santos |
| Occupation: | Football player |
| Net Worth: | $1 billion and earns £28.8 million annually. |
Early Life & Education
Cristiano Ronaldo was born Funchal, Portugal on February, 1985, and currently at the age of 37, and grew up in Funchal, Portugal, the capital of the Portuguese island of Madeira, and grew up in the nearby parish of Santo António.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the fourth and youngest child of Maria Dolores dos Santos Viveiros da Aveiro, a cook, and José Dinis Aveiro, a municipal gardener and part-time kit man. His great-grandmother on his father’s side, Isabel da Piedade, was from the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. He has one older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Liliana Cátia “Katia”. His mother revealed that she wanted to abort him due to poverty, his father’s alcoholism, and having too many children already, but her doctor refused to perform the procedure. Ronaldo grew up in an impoverished Catholic Christian home, sharing a room with all his siblings.
As a child, Ronaldo played for Andorinha from 1992 to 1995, where his father was the kit man, and later spent two years with Nacional. In 1997, aged 12, he went on a three-day trial with Sporting CP, who signed him for a fee of £1,500. He subsequently moved from Madeira to Alcochete, near Lisbon, to join Sporting’s youth academy. By age 14, Ronaldo believed he had the ability to play semi-professionally and agreed with his mother to cease his education to focus entirely on football. While popular with other students at school, he had been expelled after throwing a chair at his teacher, who he said had “disrespected” him. One year later, he was diagnosed with tachycardia, a condition that could have forced him to give up playing football. Ronaldo underwent heart surgery where a laser was used to cauterize multiple cardiac pathways into one, altering his resting heart rate. He was discharged from the hospital hours after the procedure and resumed training a few days later.
At age 16, Ronaldo was promoted from Sporting’s youth team by first-team manager László Bölöni, who was impressed with his dribbling.
He subsequently became the first player to play for the club’s under-16, under-17 and under-18 teams, the B team and the first team, all within a single season.
A year later, on 29 September 2002, Ronaldo made his debut in the Primeira Liga, against Braga and on 7 October, he scored two goals against Moreirense in their 3–0 win.
Over the course of the 2002–2003 season, his representatives suggested the player to Liverpool manager Gérard Houllier and Barcelona president Joan Laporta.
Manager Arsène Wenger, who was interested in signing Ronaldo, met with him at Arsenal’s grounds in November to discuss a possible transfer.
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson was decided to acquire Ronaldo on a permanent move urgently, after Sporting defeated United 3–1 at the inauguration of the Estádio José Alvalade in August 2003. Initially, United had planned to sign Ronaldo and loan him back to Sporting for a year. Having been impressed by him, the United players urged Ferguson to sign him. After the game, Ferguson agreed to pay Sporting £12.24 million for what he considered to be “one of the most exciting young players” he had ever seen. A decade after his departure from the club, in April 2013, sporting honored Ronaldo by selecting him to become their 100,000th member.
Personal Life
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro is a portuguese footballerand plays a role of foward for premier league club Manchester United and as well captains the portugal national team.
Cristiano Ronaldo is married to Georgina Rodriguez and they both has five Children together by the names Cristiano Ronaldo jr, Alana Martina dos Santos Aveiro, Bella Esmeralda, Mateo Ronaldo, and Eva Maria Dos Santos.
Ronaldo has had six children. He first became a father to a son, who was born on 17 June 2010 in the United States.He stated that he has full custody of the child and would not be publicly revealing the identity of the mother per an agreement with her.In January 2015, Ronaldo announced that his five-year relationship with Russian model Irina Shayk had ended.
Ronaldo became a father to twins,born on 8 June 2017 in the United States through surrogacy. The couple expected their second pair of twins in 2022. The male twin died during childbirth while the female twin survived.
Ronaldo’s father, Jose Dinis Aveiro died of an alcoholism-related liver condition at age 52 in September 2005 when Ronaldo was 20.
According to Ronaldo, he said that he does not drink alcohol, although he received libel damages over a Daily Mirror article that reported him drinking heavily in a nightclub while recovering from an injury in July 2008. He also does not have any tattoos as he regularly donates blood and bone marrow.
Ronaldo has made contributions to numerous/uncountable charitable causes throughout his career. Television footage of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami showed an eight-year-old boy survivor named Martunis wearing a Portuguese football shirt who was stranded for 19 days after his family was killed. Following this, Ronaldo visited Aceh, Indonesia, to raise funds for rehabilitation and reconstruction.
After accepting undisclosed damages from a libel case against The Sun newspaper in 2008, Ronaldo donated the damages to a charity in Madeira.
In 2009, Ronaldo donated £100,000 to the hospital that saved his mother’s life in Madeira following her battle with cancer, so that they could build a cancer centre on the island.
In support of the victims of the 2010 Madeira flood, Ronaldo pledged to play in a charity match in Madeira between Primeira Liga club Porto and players from Madeiran-based clubs Marítimo and Nacional.
In 2012, Ronaldo and his agent paid for specialist treatment for a nine-year-old Canarian boy with apparently terminal cancer.
In December 2012, Ronaldo joined FIFA’s “11 for Health” programme to raise awareness amongst kids of how to steer clear of conditions including drug addiction, HIV, malaria, and obesity.
In January 2013, Ronaldo became Save the Children’s new Global Artist Ambassador, in which he hopes to help fight child hunger and obesity.
In March 2013, Ronaldo agreed to be the ambassador for The Mangrove Care Forum in Indonesia, an organisation aiming to raise awareness of mangrove conservation.
Ronaldo was named the world’s most charitable sportsperson in 2015 after donating £5 million to the relief effort after the earthquake in Nepal which killed over 8,000 people.
In June 2016, Ronaldo donated the entirety of his €600,000 Champions League bonus after Real Madrid won the Champions League.
In August, Ronaldo launched CR7Selfie, a selfie app for charity to help Save the Children that lets participants take a selfie with him in one of several different outfits and poses.
Career
Cristiano Ronaldo started his football career in 2002 where he played for Clube Deportivo Nacional of Madeira and later transferred to sporting Clube de Portugal known as Sporting Lisbon, where he played for club’s various youth teams before making his first appearance. He is one of the few players that made over a thousand professional career appearances and has scored over eight hundred (800) official senior careers with Sporting CP, before signing with Manchester United in 2003, and at age of eighteen (18) and thereby winning the FA Cup in his first season and became the most talk about and as well being regarded as one of the best forwards in the game. His outstanding season with United came in 2007–2008, when he scored 42 League and Cup goals and was awarded with Golden Shoe as Europe’s leading scorer, with 31 League goals. After helping United to a Champions League title in May 2008, Ronaldo captured Fédération International de Football Association (FIFA) World Player of the Year honors for his stellar 2007–2008 season. He also led United to an appearance in the 2009 Champions League final, which they lost to FC Barcelona.
Later On Ronaldo was sold to Spain’s Real Madrid—a club with which he had long been circulated to have wanted to join—for a then record £80 million (about $131 million) transfer fee. His scoring capability continued with his new team, and he netted the most goals (40) in La Liga history during the 2010–2011 season (his record was broken the following season by his rival Lionel Messi of Barcelona). In 2011–2012 Ronaldo helped Madrid capture a La Liga championship and scored a personal-best 46 goals during the League season. He scored a total of 66 goals in 56 appearances with Madrid and the Portuguese national team in 2013 to earn his second world player of the year award (the FIFA World Player of the Year was renamed the FIFA Ballon d’Or in 2010).
In 2014 he scored 52 goals in 43 games and led Madrid to a Champions League title, which resulted in Ronaldo capturing another Ballon d’Or award.
In 2014–2015 he landed 48 goals to lead La Liga in scoring. Ronaldo netted his 324th goal as a member of Real in October 2015 to become the club’s all-time leading goal scorer. He scored 35 La Liga goals in 2015–16 and helped Real win its record 11th Champions League title, and in December 2016 he won a fourth career Ballon d’Or for his accomplishments. Ronaldo scored 42 goals for Real across all competitions in 2016–17 and led his team to La Liga and Champions League titles that season, which resulted in a fifth career Ballon d’Or award.
In 2017–2018 he scored 44 goals in 44 games, and real won a third straight Champions League title. In July 2018 he reached a four-year contract worth €112 million (about $132 million) with the Italian powerhouse Juventus. He finished his Real career with 311 goals in 292 matches. He scored 28 goals in his first season with Juventus—his lowest domestic goal total since his last season with Manchester United—as the powerhouse club won its eighth straight Italian league title. On his home soil, after moving through the youth and under-21 ranks, Ronaldo had made his first appearance for Portugal’s full national team against Kazakhstan in August 2003 (four days after his debut for United). He was a key player in Portugal’s fourth-place finish at the 2006 World Cup and became the full-time captain of the national team in 2008.
In 2012 his stellar play led Portugal to the semifinals of the European Championship, where his team was eliminated by rival Spain in a match that was decided by a penalty kick shoot-out. Ronaldo came into the 2014 World Cup hot off of his second world player of the year win, but his play at the tournament was spotty, and the entire Portugal team struggled during a group-stage elimination.
In 2016 he helped Portugal win the European Championship, the country’s first major international tournament title, although he only played thrifty in the final because of a knee injury that he had sustained early in the match. Ronaldo played brilliantly at the 2018 World Cup, scoring four goals in four games as Portugal advanced to the knockout round only to lose its first match of that stage to a strong defensive Uruguay side.
Ronaldo was one of the most well-known sports stars off the field, and countless studies of athletes’ demand showed that he was greatly loved athlete in the world during his playing peak. His extreme popularity made Ronaldo one of the highest-paid endorsers in sports history, and in November 2016 he became the third person (after basketball superstars Michael Jordan and LeBron James) to earn a “lifetime” contract from the sportswear company Nike. Moreover, he established his own successful “CR7” brand of products that included shoes, underwear, and fragrances. Ronaldo’s immense marketability was at the center of a legal issue that arose in June 2017. That month prosecutors filed a lawsuit that accused Ronaldo of defrauding the Spanish government of €14.7 million ($16.5 million) by hiding his image-rights income in Spain from 2011 to 2014. He was accused of having underestimated the income he earned from the sale and licensing of his image rights and the accompanying tax obligations, but Ronaldo denied all allegations.
However, In June 2018 he accepted a suspended two-year prison sentence and agreed to pay €18.8 million ($21.8 million) to the Spanish government to settle the case.
Net Worth
Cristiano Ronaldo has worked as a Footballer for many clubs but currently playing for Manchester united. he has accumulated a satisfactory fortune from playing football. Cristiano Ronaldo has an astonished net worth of $1 billion and earns £28.8 million annually.
Social Media
Cristiano Ronaldoi as humble and hardworking as he is discovered that he also has some social media platforms where he can be connected.
- @Cristiano Ronaldo(@cristiano) is his Instagram handle.
- @Cristiano Ronaldo(@Cristiano Ronaldo) is his Twitter handle.
