
He is the highest paid footballer in the world and in the history of football.
Biography of ronaldo football player. Cristiano ronaldo dos santos aveiro goih comm european portuguese. June 2009 donated his entire 600 000 euro champions league bonus after real madrid won the 2015 16 uefa champions league june 2016. Cristiano ronaldo is a portuguese professional footballer who has played for manchester united real madrid juventus and portugal. Manchester united accepts an unconditional offer of 131 million for ronaldo from real madrid a record fee for one player.
Cristiano ronaldo is a professional football player and captain of portugal national team ronaldo was born on 5 february 1985 in funchal madeira portugal. Cristiano ronaldo portuguese football soccer forward who was one of the greatest players of his generation. In addition as of july 2017 his net worth reached 400 million cristiano has a height of 6 feet 1 4 inches and a weight of 83 kg. Cristiano ronaldo s teams manchester united.
Born 5 february 1985 is a portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for serie a club juventus and captains the portugal national team often considered the best player in the world and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time ronaldo has won five ballons d or. Learn more about ronaldo s life and career. Cristiano ronaldo led portugal at the football world cup in south africa in 2010 but he had a quiet tournament scoring only one goal as the team was knocked out by spain in the round of 16. Early life of cristiano ronaldo.
He led portugal to the 2016 european championship the first major international title in the country s history. Ronaldo was born on february 5 1985 and was named ronaldo after the then us president ronald reagan. Along with lionel messi he is regularly considered to be one of the top two players in the world he became the world s most expensive player when real madrid signed him for 94 million euros in 2009 from manchester united. He was the youngest child to maria dolores dos santos aveiro and josé dinis aveiro.
During his career he also received three player of the year awards 1996 97 and 2002 from fifa. Ronaldo brazilian football soccer player who led brazil to a world cup title in 2002 and received the golden shoe award as the tournament s top scorer. Ronaldinho began playing organized youth soccer at the age of 7 and it was as a youth soccer player that he first received the nickname ronaldinho the diminutive form of his birth name ronaldo. He also starred for the domestic clubs manchester united real madrid and juventus.