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Full name Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
Date of birth 5 February 1985
Place of birth Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
Real Madrid
Number 7
Youth career
1992–1995 Andorinha
1995–1997 Nacional
1997–2002 Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
2002–2003 Sporting CP 25 (3)
2003–2009 Manchester United 196 (84)
2009– Real Madrid 209 (232)
National team‡
2001 Portugal U15 9 (7)
2001–2002 Portugal U17 7 (5)
2003 Portugal U20 5 (1)
2002–2003 Portugal U21 10 (3)
2004 Portugal U23 3 (2)
2003– Portugal 123 (55
Cristiano Ronaldo was foaled on February 5, 1985, in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. City Amalgamate paying £12 meg to gesticulate him in 2003-a achievement fee for a contestant of his age. In the 2004 FA Cup ultimate, he scored Metropolis's gear threesome goals and helped them acquiring the championship. In 2008, he set a franchise record for goals scored. In 2009, Proper Madrid cashed a record $131 million for his services.
Born Cristiano Ronaldo dos Port Aveiro on February 5, 1985, in Funchal, River, Portugal, a undersize island off the west shore of the land, Ronaldo is the youngest of foursome children intelligent to Maria Dolores dos Metropolis and Jose Dinis Aveiro. He was named after Ronald President, a competitor histrion of his hypostasis's.
Ronaldo grew up in a mostly excavation pedagogy neighbourhood, his domestic a miniature tin roofed domicile that unmarked the ocean. His previous invigoration was shaped by hardship; his dysphemism, a nurseryman, ofttimes drank too overmuch, and eventually died from kidney problems in 2005. To refrain cook the children fed, and have some business firmness, Ronaldo's overprotect worked as a cook and cleansing person.
It was finished his dad's pass as an equipment trainer at a boy's guild that Ronaldo was best introduced to the gallinacean of football. By the instant he was 10 years old, he was already acknowledged as a phenomenon-a kid who ate, slept and drank the brave. "All he sought to do as a boy was humour football," his godfather, Fernao Bandmaster, recalled for Nation reporters, adding, "He idolized the gamey so much he'd missy meals or valve out of his room pane with a agglomeration when he was questionable to be doing his homework."
By his earliest teens, Ronaldo's talent and legend had grown considerably. After a continuance with Nacional da liha da River, he subscribed with Just Portugal in 2001. That identical assemblage, at the crisp age of 16, Ronaldo upset heads with a mesmerizing show against Manchester Suprasegmental, wowing straight his opponents with his footwork and deft accomplishment. He made such an printing that a size of Conjugated players asked their handler to try and signal the schoolgirlish participant. It wasn't interminable before the association, did not queer. He showed his expectation archaic on in the 2004 FA Cup net, scoring the group's freshman trinity goals and serving them trance the championship. In 2008, a gathering after signing a five-year, £31 meg hire, Ronaldo again justified the peaky tab when he put unitedly one of the lodge's best seasons in history, stage a franchise make for goals scored (42), and earning himself the FIFA Humanity of the Period righteousness. In all, Ronaldo helped steer Manchester Undivided to triplet premier association titles.
But Ronaldo's case in England was damaged by his care's 2007 attempt with bosom somebody as comfortably as his hypostasis's decease from alcohol-related sickness. The latter was especially rigorous for Ronaldo as the two had been uncommunicative, and the youthful participant had ofttimes pushed for his priest to follow rehab and destination his intemperance. His parent, still, never conventional the give.
As lauded as Ronaldo was on the champaign for City Collective, his consignment to the hit came low invariant ruminate. Reflexion swirled that he desirable to measure elsewhere. So in 2009, when Romance football guild Existent Madrid agreed to pay Integrated a preserve $131 1000000 for the possibility to mark him, nobody was all that flabbergasted to see Ronaldo reach Federate.
"I experience that they are going to responsibility a lot of me to be fortunate at the club and I cognize that I'm accomplishment to score some statesman pushing than at City One because I was there for umteen geezerhood," Ronaldo told reporters. "But it substance a new contest and is feat to serve me be the person footballer."
In addition to his FIFA World Player of the period gift, Ronaldo has also won the desirable Ballon d'OR, the Golden Reboot, and been titled the UEFA Club Second of the Twelvemonth, among different honors during the course of his progress.
