Cristiano Ronaldo

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Not to be confused with Brazilian footballer Ronaldo.

This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Santos and the second or paternal family name is Aveiro.

Cristiano Ronaldo
Personal information
Cristiano Ronaldo with Real Madrid in 2015
Full name	Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
Date of birth	5 February 1985 (age 31)^[1]
Place of birth	Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)^[2]
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	230	(253)
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)
Honours[show]
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:20, 20 March 2016 (UTC). † Appearances (goals) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 8 October 2015^[3]

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, GOIH (born 5 February 1985), known as Cristiano Ronaldo (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɾɨʃtiˈɐnu ʁuˈnaɫdu]), is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and thePortugal national team. He is a forward and serves as captain for Portugal. By the age of 22, Ronaldo had received Ballon d'Orand FIFA World Player of the Year nominations. The following year, in 2008, he won his first Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards. He then won the FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2013 and 2014. In September 2015, Ronaldo scored his 500th senior career goal for club and country.^[4]

Often ranked as the best player in the world^[5] and rated by some in the sport as the greatest of all time,^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9] in 2015 Ronaldo was named the best Portuguese player of all time by the Portuguese Football Federation, during its 100th anniversary celebrations. He is the first player to win four European Golden Shoe awards. With Manchester United and Real Madrid, Ronaldo has won three Premier Leagues, one La Liga, one FA Cup, two Football League Cups, two Copas del Rey, two UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA Super Cup and two FIFA Club World Cups.

Ronaldo began his club career playing for Sporting CP in August 2002. In 2003 he signed for Manchester United for £12.2 million (€15 million). In 2004, he won his first trophy, the FA Cup. In 2007 and 2008, Ronaldo was named FWA Footballer of the Year, and was named the 2008 FIFA World Player of the Year. In 2009 he won the FIFA Puskás Award for Goal of the Year. He was the world's most expensive player when he moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2009 in a transferworth £80 million (€94 million/$132 million). His buyout clause is valued at €1 billion.^[10] In May 2012, he became the first footballer to score against every team in a single season in La Liga.^[11] Ronaldo holds the record for most goals scored in a single UEFA Champions League season, having scored 17 goals in the 2013–14 season.^[12] In December 2014, Ronaldo became the fastest player to score 200 goals in La Liga, which he accomplished in his 178th La Liga game.^[13] He is the only player in the history of football to score 50 or more goals in a season on five consecutive occasions.^[14] In September 2015, Ronaldo became the all-time top goalscorer in the UEFA Champions League, and in October 2015 he became Real Madrid's all-time leading goalscorer. He is the second highest goalscorer in La Liga history behind his perceived career rival Lionel Messi.

Ronaldo made his international debut for Portugal in August 2003, at the age of 18. He has since been capped over 100 timesand has participated in six major tournaments: three UEFA European Championships (2004, 2008 and 2012) and three FIFA World Cups (2006, 2010 and 2014). He is the first Portuguese player to reach 50 international goals, making him Portugal's all-time top goalscorer. He scored his first international goal in Euro 2004 and helped Portugal reach the final. He took over captaincy in July 2008, and he led Portugal to the semi-finals at Euro 2012, finishing the competition as joint-top scorer. In November 2014, Ronaldo became the all-time top scorer in the UEFA European Championship (including qualifying) with 23 goals.

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Early life

Ronaldo was born in Santo António, a neighbourhood of Funchal, Madeira, the youngest child of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro, a cook, and José Dinis Aveiro, a municipal gardener.^[15] His second given name, "Ronaldo", was chosen after then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who was his father's favourite actor.^[16]^[17] He has one older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Liliana Cátia.^[1] His great-grandmother Isabel da Piedade was from Cape Verde.^[18] The family was staunchly Catholic. Ronaldo later said that he grew up in poverty, sharing a room with his brother and sisters.^[19] He was popular with other students at school, but was expelled at age 14 after he threw a chair at his teacher, whom he said had "disrespected" him.^[20] He then agreed with his mother to focus entirely on football, as he believed he had the ability to play semi-professionally.^[20]

When he was eight years old, Ronaldo started playing for amateur team Andorinha, where his father was the kit man.^[21] Two years later, he signed with local club Nacional. Following a title-winning campaign with Nacional, in 1997, Ronaldo went on a three-day trial with Sporting CP, who subsequently signed him for an undisclosed sum.^[22] He joined Sporting's other youth players who trained at the Academia Sporting, the club's football academy, in Alcochete.^[23] At age 15, however, he was diagnosed with a racing heart, a condition that could have forced him to give up playing football.^[24] He underwent an operation in which a laser was used to cauterise the affected area of his heart; discharged from hospital hours after the procedure, he resumed training only a few days later.^[25]

Club career

Sporting CP

Ronaldo memorabilia at Sporting CP's museum

During the 2002–03 season, his sixth and final season at Sporting, Ronaldo 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 one campaign.^[23] Senior manager László Bölöni, who was impressed with his dribbling, promoted him from the youth team and gave him the chance of a professional debut.^[26] Ronaldo made his league debut on 7 October 2002, against Moreirense, and scored two goals in their 3–0 win.^[27]

Over the course of the season, Ronaldo's representatives suggested the player to Liverpool manager Gérard Houllier and Barcelonapresident Joan Laporta.^[28]^[29] Manager Arsène Wenger, who was interested in signing the winger, met with Ronaldo at Arsenal's grounds in November to discuss a possible transfer.^[30] Ronaldo came to the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson in the middle of 2003, when Sporting defeated United 3–1 at the inauguration of the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon. Ronaldo's performance impressed the Manchester United players, who urged Ferguson to sign him.^[31] Ferguson considered the 18-year-old "one of the most exciting young players" he had ever seen.^[32]^[33] A decade after his departure from the club, in April 2013, Sporting honoured Ronaldo by selecting him to become their 100,000th member.^[34]

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