Cristiano Ronaldo:All Information,Early Life,Achievements,Personal Life,Goals,Records

The greatest footballer in world history.The legend for whom we see football,feel football and play football.The Protuguese forward striker.The man who reignited the glory of Real Madrid.The most expensive footballer.The two-time Ballon d'Or.The great CR7.

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro,was born on 5 February 1985,known as Cristiano Ronaldo and CR7,is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a forward for the Spanish giant club Real Madrid and is the captain of the Portugal national team.He became the most expensive footballer in history when he transferred from English club Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2009 in a transfer worth £80 million(€94 million/$ 132 million).Ronaldo’s contract with Real Madrid,under the terms of which he is paid €21 million a year(after taxes),makes him the highest paid footballer in the world,and his buyout clause is valued at €1 billion as per his contract.He is regarded to be currently the best player in the world.Ronaldo won the 2013 FIFA Ballon d’Or(World Player of the Year).There is  a curse over Ballon d’Or that any player who has won it has not been able to win the FIFA World Cup for his country.This has happened for the last 14 times.Will he be able to break the curse?

Ronaldo’s father,José Dinis Aveiro,died of an alcoholism-related liver condition at the age of 52 in September 2005 when Ronaldo was 20.In October 2005,a month after his father died,Ronaldo was arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in a London hotel and released on bail.Ronaldo denied the allegations and charges were dropped in Novemeber 2005 due to insufficient evidence.Ronaldo issued a statement saying:”I have always strongly maintained my innocence of any wrong doing and I am glad that this matter is at an end so that I can concentrate on playing for Manchester United.”Ronaldo announced that he had become a father on 3 July 2010.His official Facebook and Twitter pages refer to the birth of his son and request privacy.The child named Cristiano,was born in United States and is in full custody of Ronaldo.Ronaldo has previously dated English models Alice Goodwin and Gemma Atkinson,and since the start of 2010,he has been dating Russian model Irina Shayk.He is a practising Roman Catholic.

Ronaldo began his career as a youth player for Andorinha,where he played for 2 years,before moving to C.D. Nacional.In 1997,he made a move to Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal.Ronaldo caught the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson,who signed him for £12.2 million(€15 million) in 2003.In 2004,Ronaldo won his first club honour,the FA Cup.In 2007,Ronaldo was the first player in England to win all 4 main PFA(Professional Footballers’ Association) and FWA awards.In 2008 and 2013,he won the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for the best footballer in the world,the first Portuguese player to win the award twice.He was awarded the European Golden Shoe in 2008,2011 and 2014.In 2008,he won 3 of the 4 main PFA and FWA trophies and was named the FIFA World Player of the Year,FIFPro Player of the Year,World Soccer Player of the Year,and the Onze d’Or.In 2007 and 2008,Ronaldo was named FWA Footballer of the Year.He was the inaugural winner of the FIFA Puskás Award for the Goal of the Year in 2009.In a 2014 UEFA poll,Ronaldo was named the greatest goal scorer to play in the UEFA Champions League.He is the competition’s second top goal scrorer of all time with 68 goals,only trailing Raúl with three more.

Ronaldo is the first top European league player to reach 40 goals in a single season in two consecutive years,fastest Real Madrid player to reach 100 league goals,and the first player to score against every team in a single session in La Liga.He holds the record for most goals scored in a season for Real Madrid.In January 2014,Ronaldo scored 400^th career goal.After Playing for one year for Madrid wearing number 9 shirt,he began wearing number 7 again following the departure of long-serving striker Raúl.Ronaldo had previously worn the number 7 shirt at Manchester United.

Ronaldo as a Portuguese international player made his debut in August 2003.He has been capped over 100 times and is Portugal’s top goal scorer of all time.With Portugal he has participated in 5 major tournaments:UEFA Euro 2004,the 2006 FIFA World Cup,UEFA Euro 2008,the 2010 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2012.He scored his first international goal in the opening game of Euro 2004 against Greece.In addition to helping Portugal reach the final.He took over captaincy in Juluy 2008 and captained them to the Euro 2006 semi-finals finishing the competition as joint top scorer.