Portuguese footballer

He was born on February 5, 1985 in Santo António, a neighborhood of Funchal, Madeira Island (Portugal).
Younger son of María Dolores dos Santos and municipal gardener José Dinis Aveiro, who baptized him with the name of Ronaldo in honor of the American politician and actor Ronald Reagan.
He has an older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Liliana Cátia. His great-grandmother Isabel da Piedade was from Cape Verde.
His family has firmly Catholic roots and Ronaldo declared that they lived in poverty, having to share a room with his brother and sisters.

Very popular among his schoolmates, but was expelled from school after throwing a chair to a teacher for disrespect.

At fourteen, he agreed with his mother to dedicate himself exclusively to football. He grew up in a working class neighborhood and when he counts ten years ago, Sporting de Lisboa discovers him, Cristiano Ronaldo played by then in the modest Andorinha, club of his native Funchal and in which his father worked as a utillero. After Ronaldo went to the National and six months later he makes the assignment of Christian rights. In 2001, first-team coach Laszlo Boloni, a Romanian coach, wanted him to debut that year, but a test advised him not to work hard enough. A year later he made his debut in the Champions League preview against Inter.

With the selection of Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo was part of the attack with Quaresma, Helder Postiga and Hugo Viana in the U-21 team and defeated England. In June he was the star of the U-20 team that won the prestigious Touloun tournament beating Italy 3-1. Felipe Scolari made him debut with the national team on August 20, 2003 against Kazakhstan, with eighteen years he replaced Luis Figo, one of his idols.

Barça and Juve wanted it, although they finally went to the Machester in the summer of 2003 after paying 17.5 million euros for the transfer. Cristiano remained in the club for 6 seasons where he won trophies: 3 Premier Leagues, 1 European Cup and 1 Club World Cup. He is considered one of the best footballers in the world and one of the most mediatic athletes. Ronaldo was distinguished with the award for Best Player of the Premier League in 2007 and 2008, as well as Portuguese Athlete of the Year. In the 2007-08 season he won the Golden Boot, the Golden Ball, and the FIFA World Player in 2008.

On June 11, 2009 Manchester United accepted the offer of 93.9 million euros from Real Madrid C.F. The transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo is confirmed on June 26 and becomes the most expensive transfer in the history of football. On July 6 was presented at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium before 80,000 people. He debuted on the field on July 21 with a 1-0 victory over Shamrock Rovers. His first goal came a week after a penalty in Madrid's 4-2 victory over LDU Quito. On August 29, it debuted in the league with a goal against Deportivo La Coruña to which they won 3-2; On September 15, he scored two free throws in a 5-2 victory against Zürich, his first goals in the Champions League for Real. After scoring another goal in a league game against Villarreal, he became the first club player to score in his first four appearances.

With Real Madrid, he won a Copa del Rey in 2011, the 2011-12 League and the Super Cup of Spain 2012. With the Portugal national football team he achieved the runner-up in the 2004 European Championship in Portugal, and a fourth place in the 2006 World Cup. in Germany. In his fourth consecutive season with Real Madrid he won the Cup of His Majesty the King; the Champions League; a Super Cup and laFIFA Club World Cup. In the Champions League final against Atlético de Madrid, he became the first player in history to score in two European Cup finals for two different winning teams. The Real won his tenth European Cup.

Cristiano won his second Golden Ball on January 13, 2014, ahead of Messi and Ribéry after a spectacular 2013 with 69 goals and a great re-play for the World Cup with Portugal. On January 12, 2015, he achieved his third Golden Ball, reaching 37.66% of the votes, more than twice the amount of support Messi received (15.76%). On October 13, he received his fourth Golden Boot becoming the player who got the most times, the last three with Real Madrid.

He won the eleventh European Cup of Real Madrid, after defeating Atlético de Madrid penalty kicks in the final of the 2015-16 Champions League, scoring the final goal of the shoot. With the Portuguese team he won the 2016 European Championship after beating France in the final in Paris. He had to retire in the first part of the injured match, but ended up raising the trophy as captain of the team, in addition to proclaiming Silver Bota of the tournament after scoring three goals and giving three assists.

On December 12, 2016, he won his fourth Golden Ball. The Portuguese, with 31 years, won among others, Leo Messi and Antoine Griezmann. On Monday, January 9, 2017, he was awarded The Best Award granted by FIFA to the best player in the world in 2016, at a gala held at the TPC Studios (Technology and Production Center) in Zurich.

On May 21, 2017, five years after getting the last one, Real Madrid was proclaimed champion getting his thirty-third league and the first Zinedine Zidane as coach, putting the pin with goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema in La Rosaleda, against a Málaga who never speculated (0-2).

On June 3, 2017, Real Madrid won their twelfth Champions League cup after defeating Juventus 4-1 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, with two goals from Cristiano Ronaldo, one from Casemiro and another from Marco Asensio. Mario Mandžukic scored the goal for Juve.

On October 23, 2017, Cristiano Ronaldo won the The Best 2017 prize, winning for the second year in a row, Messi and Neymar. The coach of Real Madrid, Zidane, got the award for best coach.

Cristiano Ronaldo was awarded a new Golden Ball on December 7, 2017. The Portuguese forward won the prestigious award of the magazine France Football for the fifth time in his career, in a ceremony held in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, thus equaling Leo Messi, both being the two players in history who most times achieved this trophy to date, in addition to being the second consecutive year that Ronaldo won the trophy, after having also achieved it in the years 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2016.

His father died in September 2005 of a liver disorder related to alcoholism, at fifty-two, when Ronaldo was twenty. In October 2005, a month after the death of his father, he was arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in a London hotel and released on bail. Ronaldo denied the allegations and the charges were dropped by Scotland Yard in November 2005 due to "insufficient evidence".

He became a father on June 17, 2010, after the birth of a child, called Cristiano, and whom the family nicknamed 'Cristianinho'. Born in the United States, the footballer declared that he had custody without revealing the identity of the mother. It was related to the English models Alice Goodwin and Gemma Atkinson. In 2010, he started dating Russian model Irina Shayk, who he supposedly met through his Armani Exchange campaigns. The couple ended their relationship in January 2015. Ronaldo also interacted with Spanish television journalist Lucia Villalón. As he did seven years before to announce the arrival of his first child to the world, Cristiano used social networks to confirm his paternity of a boy and a girl (Eva and Mateo) through surrogate motherhood, who would have been born on the 8th. June 2017 in the United States. Georgina Rodríguez gave birth at the Quirón Clinic in Pozuelo to her first daughter with Cristiano Ronaldo in a delivery scheduled on November 12, 2017. The delivery was very good and as announced by the player through social networks.

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Cristiano Ronaldo's biography

CRISTIANO RONALDO'S BIOGRAPHY

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born on February 5, 1985, in Madeira, Portugal to Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro and José Diniz Aveiro. Cristiano has an elder brother, Hugo and two elder sisters, Elma and Liliana Cátia. His name was inspired by the former US-president, Ronald Reagan, whom his father was influenced by.

The island of Madeira was also the place where Cristiano first learned to master his skills as a footballer. He spent his early years playing for his local team, Nacional, and by the time he turned 12 years old, he already made his name for himself as one of Madeira's top footballers . It wasn't long before he started to catch the attention of other big Portuguese clubs. Among Sporting was Benfica, a team Cristiano and his father followed as a young boy. However he eventually chose to play for Sporting which was a team his mother loved and followed as she was growing up, to play with the likes of Figo was the dream for her son.

He was then spotted by former Liverpool manager, Gerard Houllier at the age of sixteen but Liverpool had no intentions to sign him at that time because they thought he was too young and he needed more time to develop his skills. However, in the summer of 2003, when Sporting played against Manchester United and defeated them, Cristiano caught the attention of Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson.

Ronaldo became Manchester United's first-ever Portuguese player. Initially, he requested for the number 28 as his jersey number because he didn't feel that he could live up to the pressure of previous players such as George Best and David Beckham who wore the number 7 jersey.

The year 2006 to 2008 proved to be a rather controversial year for the star. In the 2006 World Cup, Cristiano faced accusations regarding his sportsmanship. In a quarter-final match against England, he was heavily criticized for sending of his club team mate, Wayne Rooney who was playing for the England team. It wasn't too long until fans started accepting Cristiano again. In 2007, he won PFA Young Player of the Year, PFA Player of the Year, PFA Fans' Player of the Year, Portuguese Footballer of the Year, FWA Footballer of the Year, Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year and Manchester United's Players' Player of the Year. The year 2008 also saw him taking back the PFA Player Of The Year Award for the second time running. That same year, Rona

ldo also had to deal with controversies regarding his club transfer to Spanish giants, Real Madrid. He eventually chose to stay with Manchester United and stressed to the public that he had no intentions of leaving the club.

Cristiano now lives with his cousin, Nuno and his brother in law Ze. When he is not on the field, he is a very family oriented person. Growing up, when he was about to choose football as his career, he said that it was very difficult for him as that would mean lesser time with his family, especially his mother, whom he says play a major role in his life.

During his free time, Cristiano enjoys cooking. He mentioned in an interview that he usually cooks before he leaves for his soccer practice. Because he is constantly training, Cristiano rarely has time to watch TV. If he does get the time to watch, he says he loves watching one of the local Portuguese game show which is mostly about trivia questions. Cristiano is an avid learner and he takes interest in learning new things everyday. Among Cristiano's biggest pet peeves are smoking, people who don't make an effort and dishonesty.

When the tsunami hit South East Asia, Cristiano flew to Indonesia to help those in need. He auctioned off a few stuff to help raise funds for charity. He hopes to get involved in more charity projects in the future because he believes his star status will help him reach out to others for help.