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 Cristiano Ronaldo is a football player from Portugal. He is a player who plays as a winger or center forward. He currently plays in the Spanish league with Real Madrid and Portugal national team as a player and captain.

 

Ronaldo was born on February 5^th, 1985, in Madeira, Portugal. His father is Jose Dinis Aveiro and his mother is Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro. Ronaldo has an elder brother named Hugo, and two elder sisters named Elma and Liliana Catia. So, he was the youngest child in the family.

Ronaldo’s career began at the age of 8 years where he joined Andorinha for 2 years (1993-1995) and then moved to Nacional de Madeira (1995-1997), and Sporting Lisbon (2001-2003) during the junior. Since he was the 14^th, he agreed with his mother to focus on football.

Sporting Lisbon in 2001 to 2003 he wore number 28. He played 25 times and scored 3 goals. In 2003, Manchester United and Sporting hold a friendly match. Surprisingly MU who was more superior, defeated (3-1) by Sporting. The victory couldn’t be separated by the brilliant performances of Ronaldo at that time.

In 2003, Ronaldo was transferred from Sporting Lisbon to Manchester United as the most talented young player. Sir Alex Ferguson gave Ronaldo jersey number 7. Since joining Manchester, Ronaldo suffered a very significant body transformation, from slender to muscular. His height of 187 cm certainly made him a very dangerous player.

After seven years of grazing with the ‘Red Devils’, Ronaldo finally made a sensation in the world by breaking the record transfer fee of 80 million pounds, or around 1.3 trillion rupiahs, made him as the most expensive player in football history. (Update: After 1. Pogba and 2. Bale * in 2016)

Along with Real Madrid, Ronaldo became more powerful. He managed to record a variety of carvings football history. Such as; the first player who managed to score 40 goals in a single La Liga season. Even in 2016, he won the title with the national team of Portugal as European champions in 2015/2016.

With his achievements, no doubt that he will be remembered as one of the best football players in the world.