Saturday, October 25, 2014
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos
Aveiro, (born 5 February 1985), known as Cristiano Ronaldo, is
a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Real Madrid and captainsthe Portugal national team.
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. His second given name "Ronaldo" was chosen after
then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan,
who was his father's favourite actor. He has one older brother, Hugo, and two
older sisters, Elma and Liliana Cátia. His
great-grandmother Isabel da Piedade was from Cape
Verde.
Ronaldo
became the world's most expensive
player when he moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2009. He is regarded
by some in the sport to be currently the best player in the world, and one of the greatest of all time.
Ronaldo
began his career as a youth player for Andorinha,
where he played for two years, before moving to C.D. Nacional. In 1997, he made a move
to Portuguese giants Sporting CP.
Ronaldo made his international
debut for Portugal in August 2003, at the age of 18.
In 2007, Ronaldo was the first
player in England to win all four main PFA and FWA awards. In 2008 and 2013, he
won the FIFA/Ballon d'Or award
for the best footballer in the world, the first Portuguese player to win the
award twice. He was awarded the European Golden Shoe in 2008, 2011 and 2014. In 2008, he
won 3 of the 4 main PFA and FWA trophies and was named the FIFA World Player of the Year, FIFPro Player of the Year, World Soccer Player of the Year, and
the Onze d'Or. In 2007 and 2008, Ronaldo was named FWA Footballer of the Year. He was the
inaugural winner of the FIFA
Puskás Award for Goal of the Year
in 2009. In a 2014 UEFA poll, he was named the greatest goalscorer to play in
the UEFA Champions League.[14] With 68 goals as of September 2014, he is tied second in the competition's top scorers of all time,
only trailing Raúl by three goals. He also holds the
record for most goals scored in a
single UEFA Champions League season, scoring 17 goals in the 2013–14 season.
Ronaldo
is the first top European league player to reach 40 goals in a single season in
two consecutive years, fastest Real Madrid player to reach 100 league goals,
and the first player to score against every team in a single season in La Liga. He holds the record for most goals
scored in a season for Real Madrid. In January 2014, Ronaldo scored his 400th
senior career goal for club and country aged 28.
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