Profile Cristiano Ronaldo

Personal information

Full name : Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
Date of birth : 5 February 1985
Place of birth : Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Height : 1.86 m
Playing position : Winger / Forward
Current club : Real Madrid
Number : 7
Youth career :
1993–1995 Andorinha
1995–1997 Nacional
1997–2001 Sporting CP
Senior career :
2001–2003 Sporting CP
2003–2009 Manchester United
2009– Real Madrid
National team :
2001–2002 Portugal U17
2003 Portugal U20
2002–2003 Portugal U21
2004 Portugal U23
2003 Portugal

Club career

Early career

At the age of eight, Ronaldo played for amateur team Andorinha, where his dad was the kit man. In 1995, Ronaldo gestured with regional club Nacional, and, afterwards a title-winning campaign, he went on a three-day experiment with Sporting CP, whoever subsequently gestured him for an undisclosed sum.

Sporting CP

Ronaldo stringed Sporting's other youth players whoever conditioned at the Academia Sporting, the club's football academy, in Alcochete. He became the merely actor ever to play for Sporting's U-16, U-17, U-18, B-team, and first team, all within one season.
He scored pair targets in his Sporting debut against Moreirense, whereas featuring for Portugal in the 2002 European Under-17 Championship.

When he was 15, Ronaldo was diagnosed with a speeding heart, a condition that might have coerced him to give upward playing football. The Sporting personnel were prepared aware of the condition and Ronaldo's mother gave her authorisation for him to go into hospital. While there, he had an mission in which a laser was accustomed to cauterise the field of his heart that was causing the problem. The medicine took position in the morning and Ronaldo was fired from hospital via the end of the afternoon; he resumed training merely a minority days later.

He was first spotted via then-Liverpool administrator Gérard Houllier at the age of 16, but Liverpool decreased to take him on because they decided he was too young and lacked several time to devise his skills. However, he attended the attention of Manchester United administrator Alex Ferguson in the summer of 2003, as shortly as Sporting defeated United 3–1 in the inauguration of the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon. Ronaldo's performance impressed the Manchester United players, whoever urged Ferguson to clue him.

Manchester United

Ronaldo with Manchester United in April 2006

Ronaldo became Manchester United's first-ever Portuguese actor as shortly as he gestured for €15 million (£12.24 million) afterwards the 2002–03 season. He commissioned the figure 28 (his figure at Sporting), as he did not want the pressure of alive upward to the outlook linked to the figure seven shirt, which had formerly been worn via players such as George Best, Bryan Robson, Eric Cantona, and David Beckham. "After I stringed, the administrator appealed me what figure I'd like. I said 28. But Ferguson said 'No, you're headed to have No. 7,' and the legendary shirt was an extra origin of motivation. I was coerced to exist upward to such an honour."

Ronaldo prepared his team debut as a 60th-minute substitute in a 4–0 home victory across Bolton Wanderers. He scored his first target for Manchester United with a adrift kick in a 3–0 win across Portsmouth on 1 November 2003. Ronaldo ended his first season in English football via scoring the opportunity target in United's 3-0 FA Cup final victory across Millwall

He scored United's 1000th Premier League target on 29 October 2005 in a 4–1 loss to Middlesbrough. He scored ten targets in all contests, and fans voted him to his first FIFPro Special Young Player of the Year award in 2005.

Ronaldo won his second trophy in English football in the 2005-06 season, scoring the third target in Manchester United's 4-0 Football League Cup final victory across Wigan Athletic.

2006–2009

Ronaldo with United during their 2006–2007 season.

The 2006-2007 season proved to be the breakout year for Ronaldo, as he snapped the twenty target fence for the first time and picked upward his first league name with Manchester United.

In November and December 2006, Ronaldo received consecutive Barclays Player of the Month honours, becoming merely the third actor in Premier League history to do so afterwards Dennis Bergkamp in 1997 and Robbie Fowler in 1996. He scored his 50th Manchester United target against city rivals Manchester City on 5 May 2007 as United asserted their first Premier League name in four years, and he was voted into his second consecutive FIFPro Special Young Player of the Year award at the end of the year.

Despite rumours distributing in March 2007 that Real Madrid were willing to reward an unheard of €80 million (£54 million) for Ronaldo, he gestured a five-year, £120,000-a-week (£31 million total) extension with United on 13 April, earning him the highest-paid actor in team history.

Ronaldo compiled a host of physical awards for the season. He won the PFA Players' Player of the Year and PFA Young Player of the Year awards, stringing Andy Gray (in 1977) as the merely players to receive this honour. In April, he ended the treble via winning the PFA Fans' Player of the Year. Ronaldo was also one of eight Manchester United players dubbed in the 2006–07 PFA Premier League Team of the Year.

Ronaldo (centre) and Rio Ferdinand celebrating a goal

Ronaldo's 2007–08 season originated with a red card for a headbutt on Portsmouth actor Richard Hughes during United's second suit of the season, for which he was sentenced with a three-match ban. Ronaldo said he had "learned a lot" from the experience and would not let players "provoke" him in the future. After scoring the merely target in a Champions League away suit against Sporting, Ronaldo also scored the injury-time winner in the return fixture as Manchester United topped their Champions League group.

He done as the runner-up to Kaká for the 2007 Ballon d'Or, and was third in the running for the FIFA World Player of the Year award, behind Kaká and Lionel Messi.

Ronaldo scored his first cap trap for Manchester United in a 6–0 win against Newcastle United at Old Trafford on 12 January 2008, bringing Manchester United upward to the lid of the Premier League table. He scored his twenty-third league target of the season in a 2–0 win against Reading, equalling his complete total for the 2006–07 season. During a 1–1 Champions League first knockout around draw against Lyon on twenty February, an unknown Lyon supporter continuously aimed a green laser at Ronaldo and United teammate Nani, prompting an analysis via UEFA .One month subsequent, Lyon were fined CHF5,000 (£2,427) for the incident.

On 19 March 2008, Ronaldo captained United for the first time in his career in a home win across Bolton, scoring both targets in the 2–0 victory. The second of the targets was his 33rd of the campaign, which set a fresh club single-season scoring record via a midfielder and therefore topped George Best's forty-year-old total of 32 targets in the 1967–68 season. Ronaldo scored another brace in a 4–0 win across Aston Villa on 29 March, which at the time gave him 35 targets in 37 servant and European suits as both a starter and substitute. Ronaldo's scoring streak was rewarded with his becoming the first winger to win the 2007–08 European Golden Shoe, finalising eight points forward of Mallorca's Dani Güiza.

In the 2007–08 Champions League final on 21 May against league rivals Chelsea, Ronaldo scored the opportunity target afterwards 26 minutes, which was negated via a Chelsea equaliser in the 45th tiny as the suit ended 1–1 afterwards extra time. His misfire in the punishment shoot-out placed Chelsea in location to win the trophy, but John Terry shot wide right afterwards slipping on the tone surface, and Manchester United appeared victorious 6–5 on penalties. Ronaldo was dubbed the UEFA Fans' Man of the Match,[39] and wrapped upward the campaign with a career-high 42 targets in all contests, declining four brief of Denis Law's team-record label of 46 in the 1963–64 season.

Ronaldo and Manchester United against Albert Riera and rivals Liverpool.
On 5 June 2008, Sky Sports reported that Ronaldo had conveyed an hobby in shifting to Real Madrid whether they presented him the same quantity of cash the team had reportedly pledged him sooner in the year. Manchester United filed a tampering ailment with FIFA on 9 June across Madrid's alleged pursuit of Ronaldo, but FIFA decreased to take any action. Speculation that a transfer would befall lasted until six August, as shortly as Ronaldo confirmed that he would remain at United for at least another year.

Ronaldo underwent ankle medicine at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam on seven July.[44] He returned to movement on 17 September in United's UEFA Champions League goalless group-stage draw with Villarreal as a substitute for Park Ji-Sung, and scored his first overall target of the season in a 3–1 League Cup third around win across Middlesbrough on 24 September.

In a 5–0 win across Stoke City on 15 November 2008, Ronaldo scored his 100th and 101st targets in all contests for Manchester United, both from adrift kicks. The targets also meant that Ronaldo had now scored against each of the other 19 teams in the Premier League at the time. On two December, Ronaldo became Manchester United's first Ballon d'Or recipient since George Best in 1968. He done with 446 points, 165 forward of runner-up Lionel Messi. He was awarded the Silver Ball afterwards finalising with pair targets as United won the Club World Cup on 19 December.

On eight January 2009, Ronaldo was uninjured in a single-car mishap in which he wrote off his Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano in a tunnel along the A538 near Manchester Airport. A breathalyzer trial he gave to police officers at the spectacle was negative, and he attended training subsequent that morning. Four days subsequent, he became the first Premier League actor ever to be dubbed the FIFA World Player of the Year, in attachment to being the first Portuguese actor to win the award since Luís Figo in 2001.

Ronaldo scored his first Champions League target of the season, and first since the final against Chelsea, in a 2–0 victory across Internazionale that sent United into the quarter-finals. In the second leg against Porto, Ronaldo scored a 40-yard game-winning target as United approached to the semi-finals. He subsequent paged it the best target he had ever scored. Ronaldo participated in his second consecutive Champions League final, but prepared small impact in United's 2–0 loss to Barcelona. He done with 53 arrivals in all contests, which was four higher than the earlier year, but scored sixteen fewer targets (26) than his career-best total of 42 from the earlier season.

On 11 June, Manchester United acknowledged an absolute offer of £80 million from Real Madrid for Ronaldo afterwards it was disclosed that he again had conveyed his thirst to retire the club. It was confirmed via a spokesman of the Glazer family that the sale was fully condoned via Ferguson. When Ronaldo had finally ended his transfer to Real, he conveyed his gratitude towards Ferguson for facilitating him devise as a actor, phrase, "He's been my dad in games, one of the majority significant factors and majority influential in my career."

Real Madrid

Ronaldo and Real Madrid against Diego Forlán and city rivals Atlético Madrid.
On 26 June 2009, Real Madrid confirmed that Ronaldo would attend the club on 1 July 2009 from Manchester United for £80 million, afterwards consenting terms and signing a six-year contract.Ronaldo's contract is value €11 million per year and it has a €1 billion buy-out clause. He was handed to the world media as a Real Madrid actor on six July, where he was handed the figure 9 jersey. The shirt was handed to him via Madrid legend Alfredo di Stéfano. Ronaldo was welcomed via 80,000 fans at his performance at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, surpassing Diego Maradona's record of 75,000 fans as shortly as he was handed in Italy, afterwards he was transferred from Barcelona to Napoli in 1984.

Ronaldo prepared his Madrid debut on 21 July in a 1–0 win across Shamrock Rovers. His first target came one week subsequent with a punishment in Madrid's 4–2 LDU Quito. On 29 August, Ronaldo capped his La Liga debut with a target, scoring Real's second from the punishment dot in a 3–2 home win against Deportivo La Coruña. On 15 September, Ronaldo scored his first Champions League targets for Real, both from adrift kicks, against Zürich in a 5–2 win. He snapped a Madrid club record as shortly as he scored in a league suit against Villarreal and therefore became the first ever actor to score in his first four La Liga appearances.

An ankle injury suffered on ten October, whereas Ronaldo was on global duty with Portugal against Hungary, retained him out until 25 November, which in turn caused him to miss both of Madrid's Champions League team degree suits against Milan. Ronaldo prepared his first post-injury begin in a 1–0 El Clásico defeat to Barcelona on 29 November. On six December, he was sent off for the first time in his Madrid career in Madrid's 4–2 victory against Almería, a suit which also saw him miss a penalty. He was carded first for withdrawing his shirt during a target anniversary, thereafter for kicking out at an opponent three minutes later.

With the withdrawal of Raúl in the summer of 2010, Ronaldo was handed the figure seven jersey.

On 23 October 2010, Ronaldo scored four targets against Racing Santander, the majority targets he has ever scored in a single match. It ended a goalscoring run of six consecutive suits (3 La Liga, 1 Champions League, two international) in which Ronaldo scored in each suit, totaling eleven targets which is the majority Ronaldo has scored in a single month.

International career

Ronaldo playing against Brazil

Ronaldo earned his first cap for Portugal in a 1–0 victory against Kazakhstan on twenty August 2003. He was paged upward for Euro 2004, scoring in a 2–1 team degree loss to eventual heroes Greece and in a 2–1 semi-final win across the Netherlands. He was dubbed in the team of the tournament regardless finalising with merely pair goals. He also represented Portugal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

2006 World Cup

Ronaldo was the second-highest scorer in FIFA World Cup qualification in the European zone with seven goals,[78] and scored his first World Cup target against Iran with a punishment kick.

During a quarter-final suit against England on 1 July 2006, Ronaldo's United teammate Wayne Rooney was sent off for stamping on Portugal defender Ricardo Carvalho. The English media speculated that Ronaldo had affected judge Horacio Elizondo's verdict via aggressively complaining, afterwards which he was perceived in replays winking at the Portuguese bench chasing Rooney's dismissal. After the suit, Ronaldo insisted that Rooney was a guy and that he was not pressing for Rooney to be sent off. On 4 July, Elizondo explained that the red card was due to Rooney's infraction and not the fracas between Rooney and Ronaldo that followed.

The furious reaction from the English press caused Ronaldo to assess retiring United,and he reportedly confided Spanish sports daily Marca that he wished to shift to Real Madrid.In answer to the speculation, Ferguson sent Portuguese attendant administrator Carlos Queiroz to pronounce to Ronaldo in bid to adjustment his brain, a sentiment that was shared via Rooney.[86][87] Ronaldo remained, and gestured his fresh five-year extension in April 2007.

Ronaldo was booed during Portugal's semi-final defeat to France, and missed out on the competition's Best Young Player award due to a negative e-mail campaign from England fans. Though the online vote merely impacted the nomination process, FIFA's Technical Study Group awarded the honour to Germany's Lukas Podolski, mentioning Ronaldo's behaviour as a factor in the decision.

Post-World Cup

One day afterwards his 22nd birthday, Ronaldo captained Portugal for the first time in a friendly against Brazil on six February 2007.This shift was in honour of Portuguese Football Federation president Carlos Silva, whoever had died pair days earlier. Portugal bus Luiz Felipe Scolari recounted, "Mr. Silva appealed me to produce [Ronaldo] captain as a gesture... [he] is too young to be captain, but Mr. Silva appealed me, and now he is no longer with us."
Euro 2008

Ronaldo scored eight targets in Portugal's UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying campaign, behind Poland's Ebi Smolarek, but done with merely one target in the tournament as Portugal were eliminated in the quarter-finals via Germany.[95][96] When Carlos Queiroz was dubbed Portugal's fresh bus in July 2008, he appointed Ronaldo as team captain.

2010 World Cup

On 15 June 2010, in Portugal's opportunity 2010 FIFA World Cup suit against Côte d'Ivoire, Ronaldo was tackled via right-back Guy Demel, which led to an controversy and both being booked. The following day, Portugal met FIFA to advise that Ronaldo's yellow card be rescinded since he was "pulled into" the conflict afterwards having already shifted away from the dot where he was tackled, but the attract was rejected.

Ronaldo malfunctioned to produce an impact in the World Cup; afterwards headed scoreless in the qualifiers, his merely target came in Portugal's 7-0 team degree thrashing of North Korea on 21 June, which labeled his first global target in sixteen months. Portugal were ultimately eliminated via Spain in the around of sixteen.