Fact or fiction: Cristiano Ronaldo had plastic surgery?
See photos before and after surgery! While still a teenager, Cristiano did not look very good, to put it mildly. According to him, he was fat, frail and also short. This is not teenage self-criticism: he had a round face, uneven teeth and hair that curled in all directions. Three years later, very thick eyebrows and acne were added to this list. How far was he from becoming a world-class sex symbol? This did not suit the young man, so after moving to Manchester, he not only began improving his football skills, but also took care of his appearance.
Childhood and youth
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, of Portuguese nationality, was born on February 5, 1985. Zodiac sign: Aquarius. The football player, named after Ronald Reagan (40th President of the United States), is the fourth child in the family. He has an older brother, Ugu, and two sisters, Elma and Liliana Katia. The athlete remembers his childhood with warmth, claiming that his parents did everything so that their children did not need anything. Chris's character was by no means simple. As a child, the best gift for a boy was a ball; the child never parted with it.
At the age of 8, Ronaldo began training with the Andorinha team, where the father of the future celebrity worked. Then Cristiano played in the local club Nacional, and a few years later he already played in the youth academy of Lisbon Sporting. In August 2001, the forward made his debut for Sporting in a match against Atlético. Coming on as a substitute, Ronaldo scored a goal. At the same time, the forward played for the Portuguese national team, participating in the European Youth Championship.
Cristiano Ronaldo in childhood
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Cristiano Ronaldo in childhood
At the beginning of his career, at the age of 15, Cristiano was diagnosed with health problems: the teenager was diagnosed with tachycardia. In theory, such a diagnosis put an end to sports. However, Ronaldo underwent surgery, and after 3 days he entered the field.
The Portuguese has had success in football since childhood. Already in his first matches for Manchester United, Cristiano Ronaldo's goals delighted the fans at Old Trafford, who gave the young talent a standing ovation. Further professional biography suggests that sport for this person is his life’s work. The list of personal achievements of the football player is simply huge.
Technique, speed, as well as physical data (Cristiano’s height is 185 cm, weight 80 kg) became the main advantages of the Portuguese forward on the field. The football player’s results interested many coaches who were the first to want to get the talented striker.
Ronaldo and Sheik
Ronaldo and Shayk met in 2010 on the set. Cristiano advertised underwear, and Irina advertised swimwear. The Russian model immediately fell into the heart of the football player, however, before getting the girl, the Portuguese had to show many signs of attention.
When the model finally relented, the lovers began to regularly appear together at celebrity events and photo shoots, and also spend vacations with each other. It would seem that things were heading towards a wedding, but Ronaldo and Shayk only occasionally delighted fans with photos together - there was no talk of marriage.
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Unfortunately, one of the main romances in the life of the Portuguese never had a happy ending. In 2015, Ronaldo and Irina broke up. A couple of months later, Shayk spoke about the reasons for the breakup.
“At first I thought that I had already found “the one” man, but this turned out not to be the case. I felt bad. I didn’t feel confident,” Shayk said.
Cristiano also spoke about failed relationships.
“There are good and bad periods in life. There are also periods that are not very important,” Ronaldo said, hinting at an affair with Shayk.
Club football
When the guy turned 18, the Manchester United football club came to Portugal for a training camp. Alex Ferguson's team lost the match against Sporting Lisbon. Cristiano played an important role in the victory over the Red Devils. It is not surprising that the player’s transfer to an English club soon took place. Manchester United paid £12.24 million ($15.9 million) for the forward.
Since 2003, Cristiano Ronaldo began playing for a new team. It is noteworthy that the guy immediately received a uniform with number 7. Previously, the number seven was worn by recognized masters of world football: Bryan Robson, Eric Cantona, George Best and David Beckham. Realizing that he had received a special honor, the football player did not let the team down.
From the first matches, representatives of Manchester United were convinced of the correctness of their choice. Soon Ronaldo was recognized as the best young football player of the year. In the interview, the athlete emphasized that he does not seek to copy anyone’s playing style, but tries to develop his own. The Portuguese's efforts helped the Red Devils win the English championship in 2007 and 2008.
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Cristiano Ronaldo with the Ballon d'Or
Since 2008, the highest paid player at Manchester United has become the team captain. My first game as leader was against Bolton Wanderers. In this match, the Portuguese broke a club record. Before this, only George Best managed to score 32 goals in a season.
Gradually, the Portuguese footballer became the club's best player. As part of Manchester United, Ronaldo received his first awards - the Golden Boot and the Golden Ball.
Then the player moved to the Spanish Real Madrid. Ronaldo's transfer cost the Madrid club £80 million ($104 million). The move to the Spanish team made Ronaldo the highest paid football player in the world.
Football analysts note that Ronaldo's game is varied. The forward excels in the positions of an outside attacking midfielder and a central striker. His kick on the ball does not depend on which foot he kicks it into the goal. These qualities helped Cristiano become the top scorer in the 2012/2013 season.
Particularly noteworthy is the confrontation between Cristiano and Catalan Barcelona forward Lionel Messi. The matches of Real Madrid against Barcelona were called the battle of the two best players of modern football, because El Classico gathers millions of fans in front of the screens, and spectators closely watch the game precisely because of them.
Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Cristiano Ronaldo as part of Juventus
In 2016, information appeared in the Spanish media that Cristiano Ronaldo was leaving Real Madrid. But then the press reports were not confirmed, because in November the athlete signed another 5-year contract with the Madrid club. The player, in an interview with journalists, has repeatedly noted that he is glad to wear the uniform of “cream” - the best club in the world, as he himself believes, and would also like to end his sports career in Real Madrid.
The main and shocking news of 2022 was the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid to Juventus. The decision to transfer, the cost of which amounted to € 112 million, was made at the request of the football player himself. The agreement with Ronaldo runs until June 30, 2022, with a salary of € 30 million per year. This transfer became the most expensive in the history of Italian clubs.
The athlete finished 2019 as UEFA's top scorer, scoring 21 goals during the season. He received this title for the 4th time in the last 7 years.
In the Sandoria-Juventus match in December 2019, Cristiano scored an incredibly spectacular goal, making a 71 cm high jump and deflecting the ball, which helped his team snatch a 1:2 victory. The video of the header spread across the media and social networks in a matter of hours, gaining millions of views, and the frame of Ronaldo scoring the ball became the basis for memes and Photoshop battles.
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Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi
Another reason for jokes among fans was Ronaldo's kiss with his clubmate Paulo Dybala. After the second goal, they ran to celebrate the goal and, hugging tightly, kissed. The video of the funny episode quickly went viral on social networks.
The Juventus forward was recognized as the best player in the Italian Championship at the beginning of 2022: his personal statistics amounted to 7 goals in 4 matches. In the match with Cagliari, the athlete scored the 56th hat-trick in his career.
Thanks to the victory of the Turin club at the Italian Championship, Cristiano again won national gold, but the team left the Champions League in the quarterfinals. In the fall, the football player suffered from coronavirus, but after treatment the athlete returned to the field. In the nomination for The Best FIFA Men's Player award, he lost the championship to Robert Lewandowski.
Real Madrid have been trying to buy Ronaldo since 2007
In the 2004/05 and 2005/06 seasons, Cristiano Ronaldo was recognized as the best young player, and at the end of the 2006/07 season, the Portuguese was recognized as the best player of the year in the Premier League.
In 2007, the media wrote a lot about Ronaldo's possible move to Real Madrid. Allegedly, the Madrid club was ready to pay 80 million euros for Cristiano. Despite rumors, Cristiano extended his contract with Manchester United. Under the terms of the new agreement, the Portuguese forward became the highest paid player in the history of the Red Devils.
Cristiano collected many individual awards at the end of the 2006/07 season, and United fans voted him Footballer of the Year. Manchester United won the championship, the Portuguese entered the symbolic team of the English Premier League.
Portugal national team
Ronaldo made his debut in the Portuguese national team when he was 18 years old. On August 20, 2003, he played in a friendly match against the Kazakhstan national team, the game ended in victory for Cristiano’s team.
In 2004, the European Championship took place at home for the Portuguese. Despite reaching the finals of the tournament, the team failed to win - they lost to the Greeks, becoming silver medalists.
In the same year, the Olympic Games took place in Athens, which ended unsuccessfully for the Portuguese: they did not even qualify from the group. In 2012, the national team became a bronze medalist at the European Championships, which took place in Ukraine.
As part of the Portuguese national team in 2016, the footballer became the European champion. It is noteworthy that the final game against France was the first time in the last 10 years that Cristiano was replaced on the football field. The fact is that the forward was injured and left the field on a stretcher. Among other things, this year brought Ronaldo his fourth Ballon d'Or (from 2010 to 2015 - FIFA Ballon d'Or).
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Cristiano Ronaldo as part of the Portuguese national team
In June 2017, Cristiano visited Russia. He was included in the national team for the first Confederations Cup in the history of Portugal, which took place in the Russian Federation. But at some games, in particular in Moscow, the footballer was absent. The coaching staff then decided to release the player to his children, who were born to him in early June. One way or another, the team managed to take 3rd place at the Confederations Cup.
In 2022, Cristiano came to Russia for the World Cup as part of the Portuguese national team. Fans predicted the team, if not victory, then definitely reaching the finals, but something went wrong. Of course, they made it out of the group, but they lost in the round of 16 match against Uruguay and sensationally left the tournament.
However, at the 2018 World Cup, Ronaldo scored his 85th goal for the national team, thus becoming the top scorer in the team's history. He was ahead of the legendary Ferenc Puskás.
Awards
Listing all of Ronaldo's awards and achievements is an extremely long process.
He received:
- 3 Golden Balls;
- title of the best football player in the world according to FIFA;
- he was also the most expensive football player in the world.
Throughout his career, Cristiano Ronaldo has scored a huge number of goals (681).
Wealth and income
According to the American magazine Forbes, in 2022 Cristiano was again recognized as the highest paid athlete. His income for the year was $93 million, of which $58 million was salary and $35 million was advertising revenue. By 2022, the forward’s fortune had reached $1 billion.
Of course, a football player’s hobbies are also expensive. For example, it is known that Cristiano loves luxury cars. His garage includes a Bentley Continental, Bugatti Veyron, Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 and others. In 2009, he was involved in an accident in a red Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano. Then his teammates gave him a small copy of a Ferrari with toy pedals. Ronaldo did not appreciate the humor and bought himself the same car instead of the broken one.
The football player signed an open-ended contract with Nike in 2016. He has repeatedly advertised the boots of this American company. Some media outlets suggest that the annual payments under the contract will be no less than the player’s salary at Real Madrid.
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Cristiano Ronaldo with his common-law wife and children
The Portuguese's sponsorship portfolio also includes contracts with Tag Heuer, Herbalife, Abbott Labs and other companies. At the same time, the line of CR7 branded products is constantly expanding; it includes shoes, perfume, jeans and underwear.
In 2019, the football player received a golden visa to the United Arab Emirates. As part of the program to invite outstanding athletes to the country, Ronaldo received the right to unlimited visits to the UAE for vacations or training camps.
Cristiano distinguished himself by becoming the leader among football players in terms of earnings on Instagram in 2022. According to Sportbible, he earned $47.8 million from just 49 posts.
In February 2020, Ronaldo celebrated his 35th birthday with a party at the Casa Fiore restaurant in Turin. A luxurious birthday gift awaited the athlete at the entrance - a black Mercedes G-Class SUV, which added to his fleet. A few months later, the forward bought a Bugatti Centodieсi car worth € 8 million.
Cristiano is also the owner of a luxury yacht called Africa. The huge vessel, 492 meters long and costing $19 million, is used for family boat trips.
Ronaldo has four children
In 2016, Ronaldo met Georgina Rodriguez at the Dolce&Gabbana fashion show. The Spanish dancer and model charmed Cristiano. On January 9, 2022, the couple made their first public appearance at the FIFA Football Awards ceremony in Zurich.
On November 12, 2022, Georgina gave birth to a girl from Ronaldo, who was named Alana-Martina. Cristiano also has three children from surrogate mothers. Ronaldo's eldest son, Cristiano Jr., successfully played for Real Madrid's children's teams, and now plays in the Juventus system. Twins Mateo Ronaldo and Eva Maria Dos Santos are now 2 years old.
Cristiano is glad that his son Cristiano Jr. saw him receive the most important awards in his career. What upsets Ronaldo most is that his moment of greatest success did not come from his father.
Cristiano Ronaldo with Georgina Rodriguez and children, photo: Instagram Cristiano Ronaldo
In August 2022, Ronaldo included Georgina in his will, according to which she will become the sole heir to Cristiano's fortune.
Charity
The footballer spends millions of euros annually on charity. He helps children with cancer, pays for treatment for victims of forest fires in Portugal, and donates a lot to the development of medicine. Cristiano cooperates with UNICEF, Save the Children, and the Red Cross. Since 2010, he has been a bone marrow donor for leukemia patients. For this reason, there is not a single tattoo on his body.
Despite the fact that Cristiano bears the title of the most vain footballer in Portugal, he remains so only on the field. In real life, the forward gives up his trophies for charity without regret. Thus, the “Golden Boot” and “Golden Ball” were sold at auction, and the funds were transferred to the construction of schools in war-torn Gaza and to the “Make a Wish” foundation, which fulfills the dreams of children with incurable diseases.
Plastic
Over the years of his career, Ronaldo's appearance gradually changed. One of the most obvious changes is the Hollywood smile. Since his youth, the football player had a malocclusion, which may be why he smiled so rarely.
Now Ronaldo often shows off his even, snow-white teeth.
According to experts, the athlete’s nose has also become different, namely, the bridge of the nose is now narrowed, the distance between the eyes has changed, and the tip of the nose looks much smaller. Of course, this could not be done without rhinoplasty.
Surgeons also assure that there was chin plastic surgery. Ronaldo's square face has taken on the shape of a triangle. It is possible that the football player corrects his cheekbones with Botox.
The athlete loves to experiment with his hairstyle; the most popular was a haircut with shaved patterns at the temples. Every schoolchild tried to imitate the star by shaving the famous zigzags on his head.
At the FIFA World Cup currently taking place in Russia, Ronaldo did not achieve his team's passage to the quarter-finals. However, we are sure that he still has everything ahead.
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Author: Svetlana Sergienko
Personal life
Cristiano Ronaldo's personal life is full of rumors and gossip. The media call the Portuguese football player a real ladies' man. There are not enough fingers to list all the representatives of the fairer sex in whose company Ronaldo was spotted.
In his youth, he dated Jordana Jardel, the younger sister of football player Mario Jardel. Spanish model Nereida Gallardo is also among Ronaldo's lovers. The girl even met the athlete’s mother and introduced him to her parents. However, Cristiano and Nereida soon broke up, and the reason for this was allegedly the Italian model Letizia Filippi. The list of Cristiano Ronaldo's ex-girlfriends also includes Paris Hilton, an American model and actress, producer, heir to Conrad Hilton, owner of the Hilton hotel chain.
The press actively discussed Cristiano Ronaldo's relationship with Russian model Irina Shayk. The lovers have been recognized more than once as the most beautiful couple; photographs of Cristiano and Irina graced the covers of hundreds of publications. Fans were waiting for the logical conclusion of the story - the wedding, and Irina was soon credited with the status of wife, but in 2015 the model and the football player officially announced their separation. In an interview, Irina admitted that the reason for the break in relations was betrayal on the part of the Portuguese.
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Cristiano Ronaldo and Irina Shayk
At the beginning of July 2010, the football player announced the birth of his son. The name of Cristiano Ronaldo Jr.'s mother remains a closely guarded secret.
In 2015, the tabloids exploded with the news that Cristiano Ronaldo has a non-traditional sexual orientation. The reason was the published photo of the football player with kickboxer Badr Hari. The fact that the Real Madrid player visited Morocco several times to see Hari was considered by some media to be sufficient for such conclusions. During a verbal altercation with Atletico Madrid midfielder Koke, the Real Madrid forward, in a fit of anger, called himself a homosexual. The phrase “I'm gay, but I have a lot of money” only added fuel to the fire.
However, fans are sure that there was another hype on the eve of El Classico - the match between Real and Barcelona. Be that as it may, at the end of November 2016, Cristiano Ronaldo appeared in the company of the Spanish model Georgina Rodriguez, who is 10 years younger than the Portuguese.
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Cristiano Ronaldo with his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez
In 2015, viewers saw the documentary film “Ronaldo,” dedicated to the professional and personal life of the athlete. The fragments of interviews, football matches, and previously unpublished archival footage included in it allowed fans to appreciate Cristiano not only as an athlete, but also as a father, friend and family man.
In June 2017, fans of the football player learned that Cristiano Ronaldo had children. The twins, born on June 8 from a surrogate mother, were named Matthew and Eve. Soon he published a photo with newborn babies on Instagram and Twitter.
And in November 2022, it became known that the athlete became a father for the fourth time. His beloved Georgina Rodriguez gave birth to the football player's daughter Alana-Martina. In 2019, the Spanish media found out that the footballer’s beloved takes care of his other three children and receives a “salary” from Ronaldo for this - according to various estimates, from € 50 thousand to 100 thousand per month.
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Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina are expecting twins.
In October 2022, the athlete announced that Georgina was expecting an addition to the family.
“We are happy to announce that we are expecting twins. Our hearts are full of love. We can’t wait to meet you,” Ronaldo wrote, showing the ultrasound results.
And in December, the football player revealed the gender of his future children - a boy and a girl.
At Real Madrid, Ronaldo won 15 trophies and scored 450 goals
At Real Madrid, Cristiano scored 50 goals faster than anyone in the history of the club (in 51 matches), and also became the top scorer of the Spanish Championship three times (in 2011, 2014 and 2015).
In 2014, Ronaldo helped Real Madrid win their first Champions League in 12 years, and later won the tournament three more times with the club. In 2015, Cristiano Ronaldo became Real Madrid's all-time top scorer, overtaking the legendary Raul. Ronaldo became the top scorer of the Champions League 7 times, 6 of them came during the Portuguese period in Madrid.
With Real Madrid, Cristiano won 15 trophies: 4 victories in the Champions League, 2 victories each in the Spanish Championship, the Copa del Rey, the Spanish Super Cup and the UEFA Super Cup, as well as 3 triumphs at the Club World Cup. Cristiano Ronaldo played 438 matches for Real Madrid, scoring 450 goals. The Portuguese won 4 Ballon d'Ors while playing for Los Blancos.
Cristiano Ronaldo won his 5th Champions League at Real Madrid, photo: Getty Images
Appearance
Now Cristiano is called a style icon and sex symbol. Everyone knows how attentive he is to his own appearance. Of course, at the beginning of his career, the athlete was far from ideal, and his teeth were not so straight and white, and the choice of suits was not always appropriate. But even then the football player was sharply different from everyone else. Arriving in England and starting to play for Manchester United, Ronaldo repeatedly became the butt of jokes. But the young man did not pay attention to this, answering that the British simply did not have style.
Manchester United kit manager Ian Buckingham recalls that Ronaldo was the first to wear gloves for cold matches, something that had never been done before. Soon everyone started doing the same.
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Cristiano Ronaldo in his youth and now
His hairstyles, which are constantly changing, deserve special attention. So, on June 4, 2022, Cristiano surprised fans by once again changing his image. Less than 24 hours after Real Madrid's victory in the Champions League over Juventus in Turin, Ronaldo appeared in public with a new haircut. The years spent with Irina Shayk were not in vain: the football player became more restrained in literally everything, even the consumption of hair gel decreased.
There is also an opinion that Cristiano has undergone plastic surgery several times. In December 2015, surgeon Sydney Ohana announced that the athlete had changed his nose. Ronaldo also uses the now popular fillers - so-called beauty injections. With the help of these injections, he corrects the line of the cheekbones and lips, smoothes out wrinkles.
Ronaldo's transfer becomes the most expensive in Serie A history
At the end of the 2017/18 season, the media constantly speculated about the possible transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo to Juventus. There were rumors that Cristiano notified his partners about the impending transfer. Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane assured that Cristiano would not go anywhere. Ronaldo himself indirectly confirmed his departure from Real after winning the Champions League in 2022.
“I will give the fans an answer in the coming days because they have always been there for me. Playing in Madrid was great. The future of individual players is not important. We rewrote history together,” Ronaldo said in an interview.
Cristiano Ronaldo moved to Juventus on July 10, 2022. The Turin club paid 112 million euros for the player, 100 of which Real received. Another 5 million went to the clubs that raised Cristiano from 12 to 23 years old, and 7 –
for the costs associated with completing the transaction. Ronaldo's transfer became the most expensive in the history of Italian football, as well as a record for a football player over 30 years old.
Cristiano Ronaldo became the most valuable player in Serie A in the 2018/19 season, photo: Getty Images
In his first season with Juventus, Cristiano scored 28 goals, gave 10 assists, won Serie A and the Italian Super Cup.
Cristiano Ronaldo now
Now the footballer is in excellent shape, which was confirmed by his participation in Euro 2020. After the match with Hungary in June 2022, the Portuguese became the leader in the ranking of the top scorers of the European Championship, ahead of Michel Platini. Ronaldo has little time left to become the top scorer in international football. So far, the first place in the ranking belongs to Ali Daei.
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Cristiano Ronaldo and Badr Hari
Before the match with Hungary, at a briefing with journalists, the captain of the Portuguese team pointedly pushed aside the bottles of Coca-Cola, asking for regular water. Reporters suggested that the soda company lost up to $4 billion due to such anti-advertising, but this information turned out to be false. Representatives of the corporation noted that there is no dispute about tastes. And Ronaldo himself has repeatedly repeated that he does not advertise or consume such drinks.
When asked about moving from Juventus, Ronaldo did not give a direct answer. But he announced that he would leave the team if it did not make it to the Champions League. At the end of August 2021, it became known that the athlete had moved to Manchester United. The athlete plays under his favorite number 7.
In 2008, Ronaldo received his first Ballon d'Or
The start of the 2007/08 season was difficult for Ronaldo. In the second round of the Premier League, Cristiano earned a stupid sending off by headbutting Richard Hughes from Portsmouth. Ronaldo received a three-match suspension. In the eighth round, Cristiano scored the winning goal against Birmingham (1:0), and in the next match he scored a double against Wigan (4:0). After 10 rounds of the championship, Ronaldo had only 3 goals. By the end of the year - 13.
In 2007, Kaká won the Ballon d'Or, with Ronaldo finishing second.
In the second half of the season, Cristiano got into good shape. He scored his first and only hat-trick for Manchester United in a 6-0 win over Newcastle, and a few months later he took to the field with the captain's armband for the first time.
At the end of the season, Ronaldo won the Golden Boot after scoring 31 goals in the Premier League. The 2007/08 season also marked Ronaldo's first Champions League victory. In the final, Manchester United beat Chelsea (1:1 in regular time, 6:5 after a penalty shootout). Cristiano scored a goal in normal time, but missed the penalty.
In 2008, Cristiano Ronaldo won the Ballon d'Or, beating out Lionel Messi and Fernando Torres.
In 2008, Cristiano Ronaldo received his first Ballon d'Or. Photo: Getty Images
In June 2008, Real Madrid again tried to lure Ronaldo, bypassing Manchester United. Manchester United lodged a formal complaint with FIFA against Los Blancos over the attempt. FIFA refused to impose sanctions on the Madrid club. Ronaldo said he will stay at Manchester United for at least a year. Exactly a season later, Cristiano left Manchester.
Personal data
- Name: Cristiano
- Last name: Ronaldo
- Date of Birth: 05.02.1985
- Place of birth: Funchal, Portugal
- Zodiac sign: Aquarius
- Eastern horoscope: Ox
- Occupation: Football player
- Height: 186 cm
- Weight: 73 kg
Cristiano's biography is a classic story about how a simple boy, born into a working-class family, became a great athlete and hero of world football.
Lisbon
The first time in the capital, far from home, family and friends, was not easy for 12-year-old Cristiano.
He was bored, endured ridicule for his speech (the island dialect was different from Lisbon), cried into the phone and asked his mother to take him home. But his great desire to play and be first helped him overcome all difficulties. The restless boy spent all his free time in the gym, trying to achieve better results. Because of this, he often had to do his homework at night. Against the background of constant physical and moral stress, Cristiano’s character became explosive and irreconcilable. At the age of 14, he threw a chair at his mentor when he behaved, in the footballer’s words, “disrespectfully.” There was a case when Ronaldo could not cope with his emotions after his own unsuccessful performance and expressed his frustration by destroying the locker room.
Cristiano Ronaldo at Sporting FC
At the age of 15, the young athlete found himself on the operating table. His life was threatened by cardiac arrhythmia, which, fortunately, was detected in time. Doctors did not advise him to continue playing football professionally. Three days after the operation, the purposeful young man returned to training. The very first interview with Cristiano Ronaldo at the age of 16. He went down in the history of the club by showing unprecedented hard work and growth in skill - he became the only student who managed to play in one season for all the squads of the “Lisbon Lions” (as the Sporting players were called). Namely, for the youth teams under 16, under 17, under 18, as well as in the reserve team and in the main team.
Cristiano Ronaldo made his debut for Sporting in 2001, when he was only 16 years old. He entered the field in the second half of a friendly match with the local Atlético FC and immediately scored a goal. That same year, he played brilliantly for the national team in the European Junior Championships. At the age of 17, Ronaldo won the country's Super Cup, although he did not participate in the match at that time.
Sporting became the launching pad for his meteoric career
Many leading European clubs became interested in the talented debutant, including Barcelona, Milan, Chelsea, and Real Madrid. One of the first “buyers” was Gerard Houllier from Liverpool FC. But the contract was offered to the football player not by him, but by Sir Alex Ferguson, the titled coach of the English Manchester United. This happened in 2003, when the Red Devils came to Portugal and played a friendly match with Sporting, unexpectedly losing 3:1. As a result of the transfer, the club then received about 15 million euros for him. 700 times more than what Nacional gave 6 years ago.
Spain
In June 2009, Cristiano became a player of Real Madrid, recognized by FIFA as the best club of the last century. Since childhood, he dreamed of wearing a Los Blancos jersey. Leaving England, the footballer spoke very warmly about Manchester United head coach Alex Ferguson, calling him his “father in sports terms.”
2009: Cristiano Ronaldo began playing for Real Madrid
After paying about 94 million euros for his transfer, Cristiano Ronaldo turned out to be a record expensive football player at that time (by 2022, the leader of transfer fees was already the Brazilian football player Neymar. Paris Saint-Germain paid Barcelona 222 million for him). Ronaldo's salary was also impressive then - 13 million euros per year (almost 2 times more than the legendary Real Madrid captain Raul received). There was a clause in the contract that stipulated a fantastic compensation amount of 1 billion euros for those wishing to purchase a football star.
The athlete scored his first goal for his new club in a game against LDU Quito of Ecuador, converting a penalty. Then his attacks resulted in goals being scored against Deportivo and Espanyol. In total, in the season he hit the opponents' goal 33 times and became the top scorer of the royal club.
The life story of Cristiano Ronaldo By 2011, he managed to score fifty goals in 51 games, setting a new club record. The previous one belonged to Puskas, who spent 54 matches on a similar achievement. During the same period, the footballer also turned out to be the record holder for scoring in one season of the Spanish championship. He scored 40 goals against 38 (the previous record).
In the 2012/13 Champions League, the outstanding player scored 12 goals and earned the title of top scorer. He also became the author of another record achievement - 69 goals for the year. This was the best indicator in Europe. Ibrahimovic was in 2nd position with a score of 47 goals, and Lionel Messi was in 3rd position with 45 goals.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are long-time rivals
It should be noted that the confrontation between Ronaldo and the striker and captain of FC Barcelona Messi has always aroused particular interest among fans. Real Madrid's games against Barça attracted millions of fans.
The Portuguese phenom's personal achievements in 2015 included scoring his 500th and 501st goals against Sweden's Malmö FC and being named the most outstanding goalscorer in Real Madrid's history. He scored 324 goals in 308 matches and surpassed the legendary Raul, who scored 323 goals in 741 games.
Real Madrid record holder
At Real Madrid, Ronaldo made 84 Champions League appearances, scoring 82 goals, and secured the Galacticos' 2-0 victory against Sevilla in the 2014/15 UEFA Super Cup with two goals. He was then recognized as the best player of the match.
During his 9 years at the club, the top scorer was awarded more than a dozen awards, including four Golden Balls and three Golden Boots. He won 16 titles with the team, won three championships and won the Champions League, the most prestigious European club tournament, four times.
