
He began playing football as a junior for the neighbourhood social ramos club at age 12 and two years later joined são cristóvão in the carioca league.
Ronaldo first football club. He was a member of brazil s under 17 south american championship team in 1991 before joining the. He subsequently became the first player to play for the club s under 16 under 17 and under 18 teams the b team and the first team all within a single season. He also starred for the domestic clubs manchester united real madrid and juventus. Ronaldo scored 247 career club goals over an 18 year period as well as 62 goals in 98 appearances for brazil earning him the nickname o fenomeno the phenomenon and is one of only four men.
Ronaldo luís nazário de lima brazilian portuguese. The juventus superstar 35 last week agreed to take a pay cut as part of his club s. Football statistics of cristiano ronaldo including club and national team history. Ronaldo grew up in the poor rio de janeiro suburb of bento ribeiro.
Cristiano ronaldo club career sporting cp 2002 2003 ronaldo earned his place in the youth team of sporting cp at the age of 16 after he was promoted by the first team manager. A year later on 7 october 2002 ronaldo made his debut in the primeira liga against moreirense. Cristiano ronaldo is fast closing in on soon being able to call himself the first billionaire footballer. He led portugal to the 2016 european championship the first major international title in the country s history.
By 1992 he was playing in the brazilian championship for cruzeiro. Born 18 september 1976 commonly known as ronaldo is a brazilian business owner president of la liga club real valladolid and a retired professional footballer who played as a striker popularly dubbed in portuguese o fenômeno the phenomenon he is widely considered one of the greatest. ʁoˈnawdu ˈlwis nɐˈzaɾju dʒi ˈɫĩmɐ. Cristiano ronaldo portuguese football soccer forward who was one of the greatest players of his generation.