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Cristiano Ronaldo, in full Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, (born February 5,
1985, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal), Portuguese football (soccer) forward who was one
of the greatest players of his generation.
Early life and career
Ronaldo’s father, José Dinis Aveiro, was the equipment manager for the local club
Andorinha. (The name Ronaldo was added to Cristiano’s name in honour of his
father’s favourite movie actor, Ronald Reagan, who was U.S. president at the time
of Cristiano’s birth.) At age 15 Ronaldo was diagnosed with a heart condition that
necessitated surgery, but he was sidelined only briefly and made a full recovery. He
first played for 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 teams before making his debut on Sporting’s first team in 2002.
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A tall player at 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 metres), Ronaldo was a formidable athlete on the
pitch. Originally a right-winger, he developed into a forward with a free-reined
attacking style. He was able to mesmerize opponents with a sleight of foot that
made sufficient space for openings in opposing defenses.
Club play
After a successful season with Sporting that brought the young player to the
attention of Europe’s biggest football clubs, Ronaldo signed with English
powerhouse Manchester United in 2003. He was an instant sensation and soon
came to be regarded as one of the best forwards in the game. His finest season with
United came in 2007–08, when he scored 42 League and Cup goals and earned the
Golden Shoe award as Europe’s leading scorer, with 31 League goals. After helping
United to a Champions League title in May 2008, Ronaldo captured Fédération
Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Player of the Year honours for
his stellar 2007–08 season. He also led United to an appearance in the 2009
Champions League final, which they lost to FC Barcelona.
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Soon thereafter Ronaldo was sold to Spain’s Real Madrid—a club with which he had
long been rumoured to want to play—for a then record £80 million (about $131
million) transfer fee. His scoring prowess continued with his new team, and he
netted the most goals (40) in La Liga history during the 2010–11 season (his record
was broken the following season by his rival Lionel Messi of Barcelona). In 2011–12
Ronaldo helped Madrid capture a La Liga championship and scored a personal-best
46 goals during the League season. He scored a total of 66 goals in 56 appearances
with Madrid and the Portuguese national team in 2013 to earn his second world
player of the year award (the FIFA World Player of the Year was renamed the FIFA
Ballon d’Or in 2010). In 2014 he scored 52 goals in 43 games and led Madrid to a
Champions League title, which resulted in Ronaldo capturing another Ballon d’Or
award. In 2014–15 he netted 48 goals to lead La Liga in scoring. Ronaldo netted his
324th goal as a member of Real in October 2015 to become the club’s all-time
leading goal scorer. He scored 35 La Liga goals in 2015–16 and helped Real win its
record 11th Champions League title, and in December 2016 he won a fourth career
Ballon d’Or for his accomplishments. Ronaldo scored 42 goals for Real across all
competitions in 2016–17 and led his team to La Liga and Champions League titles
that season, which resulted in a fifth career Ballon d’Or award. In 2017–18 he
scored 44 goals in 44 games, and Real won a third straight Champions League title.
In July 2018 he reached a four-year contract worth €112 million (about $132
million) with the Italian powerhouse Juventus. He finished his Real career with 311
goals in 292 matches. He scored 28 goals in his first season with Juventus—his
lowest domestic goal total since his last season with Manchester United—as the
powerhouse club won its eighth straight Italian league title. In the 2019–20 season
Ronaldo helped the club capture another league title, and Juventus later won the
2020 Supercoppa Italiana and the 2021 Coppa Italia Final. Several months after the
latter match, he left Juventus and returned to Manchester United. His second stint
with the club proved disappointing, however. Both Ronaldo and Manchester
struggled, and he expressed growing dissatisfaction with the club. In November
2022 his contract was terminated by “mutual agreement.” The following month
Ronaldo signed with the Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr.
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On his home soil, after moving through the youth and under-21 ranks, Ronaldo had
made his first appearance for Portugal’s full national team against Kazakhstan in
August 2003 (four days after his debut for United). He was a key player in
Portugal’s fourth-place finish at the 2006 World Cup and became the full-time
captain of the national team in 2008. In 2012 his stellar play led Portugal to the
semifinals of the European Championship, where his team was eliminated by rival
Spain in a match that was decided by a penalty kick shoot-out. Ronaldo came into
the 2014 World Cup hot off of his second world player of the year win, but his play
at the tournament was spotty, and the entire Portugal team struggled during a
group-stage elimination. In 2016 he helped Portugal win the European
Championship, the country’s first major international tournament title, although he
only played sparingly in the final because of a knee injury that he
had sustained early in the match. Ronaldo played brilliantly at the 2018 World Cup,
scoring four goals in four games as Portugal advanced to the knockout round only to
lose its first match of that stage to a strong defensive Uruguay side. Four years later
Ronaldo became the first male player to score at five different World Cups.
However, he was not part of the starting lineup for several games, and Portugal’s
2022 World Cup ended with a loss in the quarterfinals.
Endorsements and legal issues
Ronaldo was one of the most well-
known sports stars off the field, and numerous
studies of athletes’ popularity showed that he was
the most-beloved athlete in the world during his
playing peak. His extreme popularity made
Ronaldo one of the highest-paid endorsers in
sports history, and in November 2016 he became
the third person (after basketball superstars Michael Jordan and LeBron James) to
earn a “lifetime” contract from the sportswear company Nike. Moreover, he
established his own successful “CR7” brand of products that included shoes,
underwear, and fragrances. Ronaldo’s immense marketability was at the centre of a
legal issue that arose in June 2017. That month prosecutors filed a lawsuit that
accused Ronaldo of defrauding the Spanish government of €14.7 million ($16.5
million) by hiding his image-rights income in Spain from 2011 to 2014. He was
accused of having underestimated the income he earned from the sale and licensing
of his image rights and the accompanying tax obligations, but Ronaldo denied all
allegations. However, in June 2018 he accepted a suspended two-year prison
sentence and agreed to pay €18.8 million ($21.8 million) to the Spanish
government to settle the case. check more updates
Juventus, in full Juventus Football Club, also called Juventus FC, bynames la
Vecchia Signora (Italian: “the Old Lady”) and Juve, Italian
professional football (soccer) team based in Turin. Juventus is one of Italy’s oldest
and most successful clubs, with more Italian league championships than any other
team.
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Juventus was founded in 1897 by a group of grammar school students. The team,
which did not play an official league match until 1900, started out wearing pink
shirts. Its current uniforms, featuring shirts with black and white vertical stripes,
were adopted in 1903. Two years later the club won its first Italian league
championship. The Agnelli family, owners of the Fiat automotive company, gained
control of the club in 1923, and in 1925–26 Juventus won its second Italian league
title. The 1930s were a golden period for “Juve,” as it won five Italian league
championships in that decade and provided nine members of the Italian
national squad that won the 1934 World Cup.
The financial support of the Agnelli family has enabled Juventus, on occasion, to
sign some of the world’s best footballers. Indeed, the club has broken the world
record for the highest football transfer fee a number of times and over the years has
obtained the talents of football luminaries such as Omar SÃvori, Michel
Platini, Roberto Baggio, Zinedine Zidane, and Gianluigi Buffon.
Juventus beat Liverpool FC to win the 1985 European Cup at the Heysel Stadium in
Brussels, but the victory was overshadowed by tragedy when surging Liverpool
supporters—who were charging Juventus fans—collapsed a wall, killing 39 fans.
Eleven years later Juve returned to the Champions League (as the European Cup is
now known) final, beating Ajax of the Netherlands in a penalty shoot-out to win its
second continental championship. Juventus has also won three Union of European
Football Associations (UEFA) Cups (1977, 1990, 1993), two UEFA Super Cups
(1984, 1996), and a European Cup Winners’ Cup (1984). Domestically, the club has
won a bevy of Italian Cups and Italian Super Cups.
Juventus has triumphed in the Italian league, known since 1929 as Serie A, a record
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35 times. In 2006 that total was reduced, as the club’s Serie A titles from 2004–05
and 2005–06 were removed as a result of club officials’ roles in a match-fixing
scandal that involved a number of Italian clubs. Juventus was relegated to Serie B
(the first relegation in club history) for the 2006–07 season as an additional
punishment, but it earned promotion back to Serie A the following season.
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born in Funchal, the capital of the Portuguese
island of Madeira. He has three older siblings and his childhood was tough. However,
the impoverished life could not deny his passion for football.
After a brief stint with youth clubs, he made his senior debut with Sporting Clube de
Portugal in Lisbon in 2002 at the age of 16, becoming the first player in the club’s history
to play in the under-16, under-17, under-18, B team and first team, all in a single
season.His life changed when the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson spotted his talent at playing
football. Ronaldo was quickly snapped up for around USD 19 million by Ferguson to play
for his Premier League club Manchester United, sometimes simply referred to as Man
United and famously known as Red Devils. For six seasons, from 2003 to 2009,
Ronaldo was one of the Red Devils and became an international superstar of the
beautiful game.
In 2009, he was bought by La Liga club Real Madrid for a then-record transfer fee of
USD 96 million. He continued his magnificent performance for the Spanish side, staying
with them for the longest continuous period of his career for nine seasons till 2018.
At age 33, he moved to Italy when Serie A club Juventus bought him for USD 100 million
— the most expensive for the club and the most expensive for a player above 30. After
three seasons, he was re-signed by Man United for an initial two-year contract in August
2021. The Premier League club paid Juventus a USD 17.7 million and an additional
USD 9.4 million in add-ons to get him.
Things went sour between Man United and Ronaldo when the latter criticised the club,
most of its players and its manager, Erik Ten Hag, in a tell-all, two-part interview with
Piers Morgan in November 2022.
On 22 November 2022, a week after the interview was aired, Man United announced
that the club and Ronaldo agreed on a mutual termination of the contract.
“Cristiano Ronaldo is to leave Manchester United by mutual agreement, with immediate
effect,” the club said in a statement.
In his statement, Ronaldo said, “Following conversations with Manchester United we
have mutually agreed to end our contract early. I love Manchester United and I love the
fans, that will never ever change. However, it feels like the right time for me to seek a
new challenge. I wish the team every success for the remainder of the season and for
the future.”
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