Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Juventus. He has won 30 major trophies in his career, including seven league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA European Championship, and one UEFA Nations League title. He holds the records for the most goals and assists in the history of the UEFA Champions League. Ronaldo has won five Ballon d’Or awards and four European Golden Shoes, both of which are records for a European player.
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Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (; born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Juventus. He has won 30 major trophies in his career, including seven league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA European Championship, and one UEFA Nations League title. Ronaldo holds the records for the most goals and assists in the history of the UEFA Champions League. He is one of the few recorded players to have made over 1,000 professional career appearances and has scored over 750 senior career goals for club and country. Ronaldo has won five Ballon d’Or awards and four European Golden Shoes, both of which are records for a European player. He was named the best Portuguese player of all time by the Portuguese Football Federation in 2015. Ronaldo is the first footballer, as well as only the third sportsman, to earn USD 1 billion in their career. His mother wanted to abort him due to poverty, his father’s alcoholism and having many many children already, but her doctor refused to perform the procedure. Ronaldo grew in a Catholic and impoverished home with all his siblings. As a child, Ronaldo played for amateur team Andorinha from 1992 to 1995. In 1997, aged 12, he went on a three-day trial with Sporting CP, who signed him for a fee of £1,500. He made his senior debut in 2003 at age 18, and has since earned over 170 caps, including appearing and scoring in ten major tournaments. He scored his first international goal at Euro 2004 where he helped Portugal reach the final.
He assumed full captaincy in July 2008, leading Portugal to their first triumph in a major tournament by winning Euro 2016, and received the Silver Boot as the second-highest goalscorer of the tournament. In 2018, he signed for Juventus in a transfer worth an initial €100 million, the highest ever paid by an Italian club and the highestever paid for a player over 30 years old. Ronaldo was ranked the world’s highest-paid athlete by Forbes in 2016 and 2017 and the most famous athlete by ESPN from 2016 to 2019. In 2014, Time included him on their list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014. He spent two years playing for Nacional before joining Sporting CP in 1997. He moved from Madeira to Alcochete, near Lisbon, to join Sporting CP’s youth academy in 1995. At age 14, Ronaldo agreed to play for the club’s semi-professionally and later later signed with NACional. In 2009, Ronaldo was the subject of the then-most expensive association football transfer when signed for Real Madrid in aTransfer worth €94 million. There, he won 15 trophies, including two La Liga titles, two Copas del Rey, and four UEFA ChampionsLeague titles, and became the club’s all-time top goalscorers. He became the first player to win the trophy five times. He also became the second player to score 100 international goals, and the first European to achieve the feat.
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