Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Juventus and captains the Portugal national team. Cristiano Ronaldo widely famous playing aside Manchester United and Real Madrid. He is considered as one of the best players of all-time among a few in the world. Ronaldo has won five Ballons d'Or and four European Golden Shoes, both of which are records for a European player. He has won 29 trophies in his career, including six league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA European Championship, and one UEFA Nations League. A prolific goalscorer, Ronaldo holds the records for the most goals scored in the UEFA Champions League (128) and the joint-most goals scored in the UEFA European Championship. He has scored over 700 senior career goals for club and country. As of January 2020, Ronaldo is also the most followed user on Instagram amassing over 204.3 million followers.
Cristiano Ronaldo is widely famous as a Portuguese professional footballer playing aside Manchester United and Real Madrid. He is currently playing as a forward for Serie A club Juventus and captains the Portugal national team. He is considered one of the best players of all-time among a few in the world.
Cristiano Ronaldo was born as Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro on 5 February 1985 at Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. His father's name is Jose Dinis Aveiro who was a municipal gardener and a part-time kit man. His mother's name is Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro. Ronaldo's father, José, died of an alcoholism-related liver condition at age 52 when Ronaldo was 20 in 2005. His mother, Dolores, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 but eventually recovered. He is the youngest child. He has one elder brother named Hugo and two elder sisters Elma and Liliana Catia, a singer.
Ronaldo grew up in a Catholic and impoverished home, sharing a room with all his siblings. His nationality is Portuguese and his ethnicity White. His zodiac is Sagittarius. As a child, he started playing football in 1992 for amateur team Andorinha. By the age of 14, Ronaldo was already starting playing semi-professionally, ceased his education in order to focus entirely on football. Regarding his education, He went to the club's football academy.
Ronaldo began his football career from a very early age joining amateur team, Andorinha from 1992 to 1995. He even spent two years with Nacional during the time. In 1997, aged 12, he went signed with Sporting CP. At age 15,, he had to almost quit football because of racing heart conditions. Ronaldo underwent heart surgery and resumed training a few days later. Ronaldo began his senior club career playing for Sporting CP in 2001, before signing with Manchester United in 2003, aged 18. After winning the FA Cup in his first season, he helped United win three successive Premier League titles, the UEFA Champions League, and the FIFA Club World Cup; at age 23, he won his first Ballon d'Or. In 2009, Ronaldo was the subject of the then-most expensive association football transfer when signed for Real Madrid in a transfer worth €94 million (£80 million). There, Ronaldo won 15 trophies, including two La Liga titles, two Copas del Rey, and four UEFA Champions League titles, and became the club's all-time top goalscorer. After joining Madrid, Ronaldo finished runner-up for the Ballon d'Or three times, behind Lionel Messi—his perceived career rival—before winning back-to-back Ballons d'Or from 2013–2014 and again from 2016–2017. After winning a third consecutive Champions League title in 2018, Ronaldo became the first player to win the trophy five times. In 2018, he signed for Juventus in a transfer worth an initial €100 million (£88 million), the highest ever paid by an Italian club and the highest ever paid for a player over 30 years old. With the Italian outfit, he has won one Serie A and one Supercoppa Italiana.
As for international, Ronaldo was named the best Portuguese player of all time by the Portuguese Football Federation in 2015. He made his senior debut in 2003 at age 18 and has since earned over 160 caps, including appearing and scoring in ten major tournaments, becoming Portugal's most capped player and his country's all-time top goalscorer. He led Portugal to their first-ever triumph in a major tournament by winning Euro 2016 and received the Silver Boot as the second-highest goalscorer of the tournament. He became the highest European international goalscorer of all-time in 2018.
Ronaldo is still not married. However, he is the father of four children. He first became a father to a son, Cristiano Jr., born on 17 June 2010 in the United States. He didn't reveal the identity of the child's mother as per agreement he made with her. In January 2015, Ronaldo announced his five-year relationship with Russian model Irina Shayk had ended. Ronaldo then became father to twins, daughter Eva and son Mateo, born on 8 June 2017 in the United States via surrogacy. He is currently in a relationship with Spanish model Georgina Rodríguez, who gave birth to their daughter Alana Martina, on 12 November 2017.
Cristiano Ronaldo‘s net worth is estimated at $420 Million and salary to be 21 Million Euro as of 2020. His earnings are mostly from his professional football career. He amassed this sum from huge contract deals with Manchester United, Real Madrid, and Italian club Juventus. Ronaldo was ranked the world's highest-paid athlete by Forbes in 2016 and 201Z. With earnings of €720 million (£615 million) from 2010 to 2019, he was ranked second in Forbes list of highest-paid athletes of the decade. As of January 2020, Ronaldo is also the most followed user on Instagram amassing over 204.3 million followers which also aids his net worth.
Moreover, he also earns overwhelming from multiple endorsements deals and commercials. Moving on to his properties, Ronaldo has a huge and expensive collection of cars that include, Maserati GranCabrio, BMW M6, Bentley Continental GTC, Mercedes-Benz C-Class Sports Coupé, Porsche Cayenne, Porsche 911 Carrera 2S Cabriolet, Porsche Cayenne Turbo, Audi Q7, Audi RS6, and a Mercedes-Benz C220 CDI. Ronaldo also owns real estate worth $ 14 million in 2017 located in the settlement of Pozuelo de Alarcón, which is connected to the Madrid city of Spain.
The world's most famous athlete by ESPN from 2016 to 2019, Ronaldo has a tall height of 1.85 m. He has a slim muscular healthy body that constitutes a pure mass of 84 kg. He has a very attractive body complemented by his black hair and hazel eyes. Moreover, he has overall body measurements as 43-33-14 inches(Chest-waist-bicep). Similarly, he runs wearing a shoe size of 9(US). He has a straight sexual orientation.