Cristiano Ronaldo Sporting Lisbon

Over the course of his career portuguese footballer cristiano ronaldo has received five ballon d or awards the most for a european player.

Cristiano ronaldo sporting lisbon. He became known during his youth career at sporting lisbon where a friendly against manchester united in 2003 propelled him into the spotlight. The portuguese giants confirmed on monday afternoon. Sporting lisbon have renamed their academy after cristiano ronaldo to honour their most famous graduate and the best player in the world. Ronaldo burst onto the scene as a teenager for the portuguese club before securing his move to manchester united.

The forward played his first match for lisbon in 2002 then joined manchester united in 2003 real madrid in 2009 and juventus in 2018. The juventus forward started his career with sporting aged 12 before moving to. The rise of cristiano ronaldo is an incredible story. He is unquestionably the club s most famous academy product and they are thinking about honouring him when he hangs up his boots.

Sporting lisbon have renamed their academy after cristiano ronaldo to honour their most famous graduate and the best player in the world. It is with great honor that sporting clube de portugal announces that the club academy will be called the cristiano ronaldo academy academia cristiano ronaldo read a statement in portuguese on the club s website. Ronaldo joined clube desportivo nacional of madeira and then transferred to sporting clube de portugal known as sporting lisbon where he played for that club s various youth football soccer teams before making his debut on sporting s first team in 2002. Portuguese club sporting lisbon have announced they are renaming their academy to honor their most famous son cristiano ronaldo.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time ronaldo holds the record for most goals in the uefa champions league 130 the uefa european championship 9 its qualification stage 31 the fifa club world cup 7 and the uefa nations. Sporting lisbon are considering renaming their stadium after cristiano ronaldo when he retires. The portuguese giants confirmed on monday afternoon their youth set up would go by the name of academia cristiano ronaldo. Ronaldo came through sporting s youth ranks before joining the senior team where he played for one season.