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Famous Personalities Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as right or left wing in Real Madrid and in Portugal National Team , where he is also the team captain.
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Famous Personalities
Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as right or left wing in Real Madrid and in Portugal National Team, where he is also the team captain.
Personal information Full name: Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
Date of birth: 5th February 1985 - (age 28)
Place of birth: Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Nationality: Portuguese
Height: 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight: 80 Kg
Favourite Foot: right
Nicknames: CR, CR7, CR9, Ronny, Cris
Club information
Current club : Real Madrid (Spain)Number : 7 Playing position: Forward
The beginningBaptized in honour of the ex-
President of the United States,
Ronald Reagan, who was his father’s
favourite actor, he grew up poor and
playing with a soft drink can.
At the age of 9, even though he
wasn’t much athletic, Cristiano played
very well already. He was so fast that
they used to call him “abelhinha”
(“little bee”).
Youth career
1993–1995 Andorinha (Amateur club in his hometown.)
1995–1997 Nacional da Madeira
1997–2001 Sporting CP
Professional Clubs
years Clubs Games (goals) 2001 – 2003 Sporting 31 (5)
2003 – 2009 Manchester United 292 (118)
2009 – . . . Real Madrid 144 (146)
National Team Years Games (goals)
2001–2002 Portugal U17 9 (16)
2003 Portugal U20 5 (1)
2002–2003 Portugal U21 6 (3)
2004 Portugal U23 3 (1)
2003 – . . . Portugal 102 (38)
Sporting Clube de Portugal Ronaldo joined the other young players of Sporting Clube de Portugaland managed to become the only player to play in Sporting’s Under-16, Under17, Under-18, B Team and Main Team, all in only one season.When he was 15 years old, Ronaldo was diagnosed a heart problem, whichcould have made him give up playing football. He was operated and the problem was solved.
Manchester United Football Club
Ronaldo’s early talent called theattention of Sir Alex Ferguson,Manchester United manager. In 2003, when he was only 18years old, Ronaldo signed acontract with the English club,which paid around 12,24 millionpounds (15 million euros) toSporting Clube de Portugal.
Manchester United Football Club Despite being young, he won several titles in Manchester United, such as:
- English Cup
- League Cup (2005-06/2008-09)
- Premier League (2006-07/ 2007-08/ 2008/09)
- English Supercup
- Champions League
- Clubs World Championship FIFA 2008
In 2008, he became the second player to win the following prizes in a season:- Fifa’s Best Footballer in the World;- Golden Boot;- Golden Ball.
Real Madrid Club de FútbolAfter much talking, Real Madrid reached an agreementwith Manchester United to transferthe best player in the world in 2009,by the amount of 94 million euros.This happened on 11th June 2009.
This way, Ronaldo became the mostexpensive hiring in the history ofworldwide football so far.
On 31st March 2012, Ronaldoreached the 133 matches with RealMadrid’s jersey.
Portuguese National TeamHe was called for the first time fora friendly match againstCazaquistan (20th August 2003).
Ronaldo was summoned to:
- Euro 2004 (played in Portugal) - World Cup 2006.- Euro 2008.- World Cup 2010.- Euro 2012.
Some Trophies
Bola de Ouro em 2008
Golden Boot in 2010,granted by UEFA
Golden Boot for the best scorer in 2008, offered by FIFPro
Fifa’s best player of the world, in 2008.
EFE trophy: best Ibero–American playerin “La Liga” - 2011/2012
Di Stéfano trophy: best footballer 2011/12 in the Spanish championship
Personal Life Ronaldo has had several relationships, including affairs with the Indian
actress Bipasha Basu, a Portuguese actress, Merche Romero and the English actress Gemma Atkinson.
Nowadays he dates the Russian model Irina Shayk.
Personal Life In July 2010, he revealed that he is
the father of a boy, not saying the identity of the mother.
His father dies in 2005 and in 2007,
with the age of 22 years old, he publishes a biography called “Moments”, where he talks about his personal life and his love affairs.
Cristiano Ronaldo is a catholic and usually before every match he kisses a crucifix that carries on his neck.
He has got an older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Cátia Liliana
In January 2011 he was considered to be the most popular football player on Facebook, with more than 3 million followers.
On 16th February 2011, he reaches the 20 million fans on Facebook. On 29th June 2011, he had 30 million fans and, on 14th February 2012 he reached the 40 million fans.
He is the image of Armani, Banco Espírito Santo - a Portuguese Bank, Nike, Time Force, from Castrol, and Linic shampoo.
Cristiano Ronaldo – CR7
He is Portuguese.
