ronaldo bio

Career statistics
Club Season League Cup League Cup Europe Other1 Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Sporting CP 2002–03 25 3 3 2 – 3 0 0 0 31 5
Total 25 3 3 2 – 3 0 0 0 31 5
Manchester United 2003–04 29 4 5 2 1 0 5 0 0 0 40 6
2004–05 33 5 7 4 2 0 8 0 0 0 50 9
2005–06 33 9 2 0 4 2 8 1 0 0 47 12
2006–07 34 17 7 3 1 0 11 3 0 0 53 23
2007–08 34 31 3 3 0 0 11 8 1 0 49 42
2008–09 33 18 2 1 4 2 12 4 2 1 53 26
Total 196 84 26 13 12 4 55 16 3 1 292 118
Real Madrid 2009–10 12 9 0 0 – 4 6 0 0 16 15
Total 12 9 0 0 – 4 6 0 0 16 15
Career total 233 96 29 15 12 4 62 22 3 1 339 138

Honours
Club
Manchester United
Premier League (3): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09
FA Cup (1): 2003–04
League Cup (2): 2005–06, 2008–09
FA Community Shield (1): 2007
UEFA Champions League (1): 2007–08
FIFA Club World Cup (1): 2008
Individual
UEFA Euro 2004 Team of the Tournament
FIFPro Special Young Player of the Year: 2004–05,
2005–06
Portuguese Footballer of the Year: 2006–07
UEFA Team of the Year: 2003–2004, 2006–07,
2007–08, 2008-09
FIFPro World XI: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09
PFA Young Player of the Year: 2006–07
PFA Players' Player of the Year: 2006–07, 2007–
08
PFA Fans' Player of the Year: 2006–07, 2007–08
PFA Premier League Team of the Year: 2005–06,
2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09
FWA Footballer of the Year: 2006–07, 2007–08
Premier League Player of the Season: 2006–07,
2007–08
Premier League Player of the Month: November
2006, December 2006, January 2008, March
2008
Premier League Golden Boot: 2007–08
Barclays Merit Award: 2007–08
European Golden Shoe: 2007–08
UEFA Club Forward of the Year: 2007–08
UEFA Club Footballer of the Year: 2007–08
FIFPro World Player of the Year: 2007–08
Ballon d'Or: 2008
FIFA World Player of the Year: 2008
FIFA Ferenc Puskás Award: 2009
Onze d'Or: 2008
Bravo Award: 2004
FIFA World Player of the Year: 2009 Runner-up
Ballon d'Or: 2009 Runner-up
World Soccer Player of the Year: 2008
Orders
Officer of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique
Medal of Merit, Order of the Immaculate
Conception of Vila Viçosa (House of Braganza)[92]

Ronaldo earned his first cap for Portugal in a 1-0
victory against Kazakhstan on 20 August 2003.
[66] He was called up for Euro 2004,[67] scoring
in a 2-1 group stage loss to eventual champions
Greece[68] and in a 2-1 semi-final win over the
Netherlands.[69] He was named in the team of
the tournament despite finishing with only two
goals.[70] That same year, he also represented
Portugal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[71][72]
2006 World Cup
Ronaldo was the second-highest scorer in FIFA
World Cup qualification in the European zone with
seven goals,[70] and scored his first and only
World Cup goal against Iran with a penalty kick.
[73]
During a quarter-final match against England on 1
July 2006, Ronaldo's United teammate Wayne
Rooney was sent off for stamping on Portugal
defender Ricardo Carvalho. The English media
speculated that Ronaldo had influenced referee
Horacio Elizondo's decision by aggressively
complaining, after which he was seen in replays
winking at the Portuguese bench following
Rooney's dismissal. After the match, Ronaldo
insisted that Rooney was a friend and that he was
not pushing for Rooney to be sent off.[74] On 4
July, Elizondo clarified that the red card was due
to Rooney's infraction and not the fracas between
Rooney and Ronaldo that followed.[75]
The angry reaction from the English press caused
Ronaldo to consider leaving United,[76] and he
allegedly told Spanish sports daily Marca that he
wished to move to Real Madrid.[77] In response
to the speculation, Ferguson sent Portuguese
assistant manager Carlos Queiroz to speak to
Ronaldo in attempt to change his mind, a
sentiment that was shared by Rooney.[78][79]
Ronaldo stayed, and signed his new five-year
extension in April 2007.[80]
Ronaldo was booed during Portugal's semifinal
defeat to France,[81] and missed out on the
competition's Best Young Player award due to a
negative e-mail campaign from England fans.[82]
Though the online vote only affected the
nomination process, FIFA's Technical Study
Group awarded the honour to Germany's Lukas
Podolski, citing Ronaldo's behaviour as a factor in
the decision.[83]
Post-World Cup
One day after his twenty-second birthday,
Ronaldo captained Portugal for the first time in a
friendly against Brazil on 6 February 2007.[84]
This move was in honour of Portuguese Football
Federation president Carlos Silva, who had died
two days earlier. Portugal coach Luiz Felipe
Scolari explained, "Mr. Silva asked me to make
[Ronaldo] captain as a gesture... [he] is too young
to be captain, but Mr. Silva asked me, and now
he is no longer with us."[85]
Ronaldo scored eight goals in Portugal's UEFA
Euro 2008 qualifying campaign,[86] behind
Poland's Ebi Smolarek, but finished with only one
goal in the tournament as Portugal were
eliminated in the quarter-finals by Germany.[87]
[88] Since the appointment of new Portuguese
coach Carlos Queiroz,[89] Ronaldo has been
named the new captain of the squad.[90]
On 10 September 2009, in a World Cup
qualification match against Hungary, Ronaldo
provided an assist for the first goal scored by
Simão and Portugal went to win the game 3–0.
Following the win against Malta by 4 - 0, and the
Sweden loss to Denmark, Portugal advanced to
the 2nd place which leads to the playoff. Ronaldo
was called-up for the play-offs with much
controversy and disagreement from the
Merengues, due to the injury he had aggravated
on the game against Hungary, and was
submitted to physicals by the Portuguese team
but was later announced his inability to play
against Bosnia and Herzegovina.
International goals
Cristiano Ronaldo: International goals
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 12 June 2004 Estádio do Dragão, Porto,
Portugal Greece 1–2 1–2 Euro 2004
2 30 June 2004 Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon,
Portugal Netherlands 2–0 2–1 Euro 2004
3 4 September
2004 Skonto stadions, Riga, Latvia Latvia 0–1 0–2 World Cup 2006
Qualifying
4 8 September
2004 Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa,
Leiria, Portugal Estonia 1–0 4–0 World Cup 2006
Qualifying
5 13 October
2004 Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon,
Portugal Russia 2–0 7–1 World Cup 2006
Qualifying
6 13 October
2004 Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon,
Portugal Russia 4–0 7–1 World Cup 2006
Qualifying
7 17 November
2004 Stade Josy Barthel, Luxemburg
City, Luxembourg Luxembourg 0–2 0–5 World Cup 2006
Qualifying
8 4 June 2005 Estádio da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal Slovakia 2–0 2–0 World Cup 2006
Qualifying
9 8 June 2005 A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn,
Estonia Estonia 0–1 0–1 World Cup 2006
Qualifying
10 1 March 2006 LTU Arena, Düsseldorf,
Germany Saudi Arabia 0–1 0–3 Friendly
11 1 March 2006 LTU Arena, Düsseldorf,
Germany Saudi Arabia 0–3 0–3 Friendly
12 17 June 2006 Waldstadion, Frankfurt,
Germany Iran 2–0 2–0 World Cup 2006
13 7 October
2006 Estádio do Bessa, Porto,
Portugal Azerbaijan 1–0 3–0 Euro 2008 Qualifying
14 7 October
2006 Estádio do Bessa, Porto,
Portugal Azerbaijan 3–0 3–0 Euro 2008 Qualifying
15 15 November
2006 Estádio Cidade de Coimbra,
Coimbra, Portugal Kazakhstan 2–0 3–0 Euro 2008 Qualifying
16 24 March 2007 Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon,
Portugal Belgium 2–0 4–0 Euro 2008 Qualifying
17 24 March 2007 Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon,
Portugal Belgium 4–0 4–0 Euro 2008 Qualifying
18 22 August
2007 Hanrapetakan Stadium,
Yerevan, Armenia Armenia 1–1 1–1 Euro 2008 Qualifying
19 8 September
2007 Estádio da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal Poland 2–1 2–2 Euro 2008 Qualifying
20 17 October
2007 Almaty Central Stadium,
Almaty, Kazakhstan Kazakhstan 0–2 1–2 Euro 2008 Qualifying
21 11 June 2008 Stade de Genève, Geneva,
Switzerland Czech
Republic 1–2 1–3 Euro 2008
22 11 February
2009 Estádio Algarve, Faro, Portugal Finland 1–0 1–0 Friendly

Early life
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born on
5 February 1985 in Santo António, a
neighbourhood of Funchal, Madeira, the youngest
child of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro, a cook,
and José Dinis Aveiro, a municipal gardener [6].
His second given name, "Ronaldo", was chosen
after then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who
was his father's favourite actor.[7] He has one
older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma
and Liliana Cátia.[1]
Club career
Early career
At the age of eight, Ronaldo played for amateur
team Andorinha, where his father was the kit
man. In 1995, Ronaldo signed with local club
Nacional, and, after a title-winning campaign, he
went on a three-day trial with Sporting Clube de
Portugal, who subsequently signed him for an
undisclosed sum.[8]
Sporting CP
Ronaldo joined Sporting's other youth players
who trained at the Alcochete, the club's football
academy. He became the only player ever to play
for Sporting's U-16, U-17, U-18, B-team, and first
team, all within one season.[9] He scored two
goals in his Sporting debut against Moreirense,
while featuring for Portugal in the UEFA Under 17
Championships.[10]
When he was 15, Ronaldo was diagnosed with a
racing heart, a condition that might have forced
him to give up playing football. The Sporting staff
were made aware of the condition and Ronaldo's
mother gave her authorisation for him to go into
hospital. While there, he had an operation in
which a laser was used to cauterise the area of
his heart that was causing the problem. The
surgery took place in the morning and Ronaldo
was discharged from hospital by the end of the
afternoon; he resumed training only a few days
later.[11]
He was first spotted by then-Liverpool manager
Gérard Houllier at 16, but Liverpool declined to
take him on because they decided he was too
young and needed some time to develop his
skills.[12] However, he came to the attention of
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson in the
summer of 2003, when Sporting defeated United
3 –1 in the inauguration of the Estádio José
Alvalade in Lisbon. Ronaldo's performance
impressed the Manchester United players, who
urged Ferguson to sign him.[13]
Manchester United
2003–2005
Ronaldo with Manchester
United
Ronaldo became Manchester United's first-ever
Portuguese player when he signed for
£12.24 million after the 2002–03 season.[14] He
requested the number 28 (his number at
Sporting), as he did not want the pressure of
living up to the expectation linked to the number
7 shirt, which had previously been worn by
players such as George Best, Bryan Robson, Eric
Cantona, and David Beckham. "After I joined, the
manager asked me what number I'd like. I said
28. But Ferguson said 'No, you're going to have
No. 7,' and the famous shirt was an extra source
of motivation. I was forced to live up to such an
honour."[15]
Ronaldo made his team debut as a 60th-minute
substitute in a 4-0 home victory over Bolton
Wanderers. He scored his first goal for
Manchester United with a free kick in a 3–0 win
over Portsmouth on 1 November 2003. He
scored United's 1000th Premier League goal on
29 October 2005 in a 4 –1 loss to Middlesbrough.
[16] He scored ten goals in all competitions, and
fans voted him to his first FIFPro Special Young
Player of the Year award in 2005.
2006–2007
Ronaldo with United during their
2006-2007 season.
In November and December 2006, Ronaldo
received consecutive Barclays Player of the Month
honours, becoming only the third player in
Premier League history to do so after Dennis
Bergkamp in 1997 and Robbie Fowler in 1996.[17]
[18] He scored his 50th Manchester United goal
against city rivals Manchester City on 5 May 2007
as United claimed their first Premier League title in
four years, and he was voted into his second
consecutive FIFPro Special Young Player of the
Year award at the end of the year.
Despite rumours circulating in March 2007 that
Real Madrid were willing to pay an unprecedented
€80 million (£54 million) for Ronaldo,[19] he
signed a five-year, £120,000-a-week (£31 million
total) extension with United on 13 April, making
him the highest-paid player in team history.[20]
[21]
Ronaldo amassed a host of personal awards for
the season. He won the PFA Players' Player of the
Year and PFA Young Player of the Year awards,
joining Andy Gray (in 1977) as the only players to
receive this honour.[22] In April, he completed the
treble by winning the PFA Fans' Player of the
Year. Ronaldo was also one of eight Manchester
United players named in the 2006–07 PFA
Premier League Team of the Year.
2007–2008
Ronaldo (centre) and Rio
Ferdinand celebrating a goal
Ronaldo's 2007–08 season began with a red card
for a headbutt on Portsmouth player Richard
Hughes during United's second match of the
season, for which he was punished with a three-
match ban.[23] Ronaldo said he had "learned a
lot" from the experience and would not let players
"provoke" him in the future.[24] After scoring the
only goal in a Champions League away match
against Sporting, Ronaldo also scored the injury-
time winner in the return fixture as Manchester
United topped their Champions League group.[25]
He finished as the runner-up to Kaká for the 2007
Ballon d'Or,[26] and was third in the running for
the FIFA World Player of the Year award, behind
Kaká and Lionel Messi.[27]
Ronaldo scored his first hat trick for Manchester
United in a 6–0 win against Newcastle United at
Old Trafford on 12 January 2008, bringing
Manchester United up to the top of the Premier
League table.[28] He scored his twenty-third
league goal of the season in a 2–0 win against
Reading, equalling his entire total for the 2006–07
season.[29] During a 1–1 Champions League first
knockout round draw against Lyon on 20
February, an unidentified Lyon supporter
continuously aimed a green laser at Ronaldo and
United teammate Nani, prompting an
investigation by UEFA.[30] One month later, Lyon
were fined CHF5,000 (£2,427) for the incident.[31]
On 19 March 2008, Ronaldo captained United for
the first time in his career in a home win over
Bolton, scoring both goals in the 2–0 victory.[32]
The second of the goals was his 33rd of the
campaign, which set a new club single-season
scoring record by a midfielder and thus topped
George Best's forty-year-old total of 32 goals in
the 1967–68 season.[33] Ronaldo scored another
brace in a 4–0 win over Aston Villa on 29 March,
which at the time gave him 35 goals in 37
domestic and European matches as both a starter
and substitute. Ronaldo's torrid scoring streak
was rewarded with his becoming the first winger
to win the 2007 –08 European Golden Shoe,
finishing eight points ahead of Mallorca's Dani
Güiza.[34]
In the 2007–08 Champions League final on 21
May against league rivals Chelsea, Ronaldo scored
the opening goal after 26 minutes, which was
negated by a Chelsea equaliser in the 45th minute
as the match ended 1 –1 after extra time. His
misfire in the penalty shoot-out put Chelsea in
position to win the trophy, but John Terry shot
wide right after slipping on the pitch surface, and
Manchester United emerged victorious 6 –5 on
penalties. Ronaldo was named the UEFA Fans'
Man of the Match,[35] and wrapped up the
campaign with a career-high 42 goals in all
competitions, falling just four short of Denis
Law's team-record mark of 46 in the 1963–64
season.
2008–2009
Ronaldo taking a free kick.
On 5 June 2008, Sky Sports reported that
Ronaldo had expressed an interest in moving to
Real Madrid if they offered him the same amount
of money the team had allegedly promised him
earlier in the year.[36] Manchester United filed a
tampering complaint with FIFA on 9 June over
Madrid's alleged pursuit of Ronaldo, but FIFA
declined to take any action.[37][38] Speculation
that a transfer would happen continued until 6
August, when Ronaldo confirmed that he would
stay at Manchester for at least another year.[39]
Ronaldo underwent ankle surgery at the
Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam on 7
July.[40] He returned to action on 17 September
in United's UEFA Champions League goalless
group-stage draw with Villarreal as a substitute
for Park Ji-Sung,[41] and scored his first overall
goal of the season in a 3–1 League Cup third
round win over Middlesbrough on 24 September.
In a 5–0 win over Stoke City on 15 November
2008, Ronaldo scored his 100th and 101st goals in
all competitions for Manchester United, both from
free kicks.[42] The goals also meant that Ronaldo
had now scored against each of the other 19
teams in the Premier League at the time.[43] On 2
December, Ronaldo became Manchester United's
first Ballon d'Or recipient since George Best in
1968. He finished with 446 points, 165 ahead of
runner-up Lionel Messi.[44] He was awarded the
Silver Ball after finishing with two goals as United
won the Club World Cup on 19 December.[45]
On 8 January 2009, Ronaldo was uninjured in a
single-car accident in which he wrote off his
Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano in a tunnel along the
A538 near Manchester Airport. A breathalyzer test
he gave to police officers at the scene was
negative, and he attended training later that
morning.[46] Four days later, he became the first
Premier League player ever to be named the FIFA
World Player of the Year, in addition to being the
first Portuguese player to win the award since
Luís Figo in 2001.[47]
Ronaldo scored his first Champions League goal
of the season, and first since the final against
Chelsea, in a 2 –0 victory over Internazionale that
sent United into the quarter-finals.[48] In the
second leg against Porto, Ronaldo scored a 40-
yard game-winning goal as United advanced to
the semi-finals. He later called it the best goal he
had ever scored.[49][50] Ronaldo participated in
his second consecutive Champions League final,
but made little impact in United's 2–0 loss to
Barcelona. He finished with 53 appearances in all
competitions, which was four higher than the
previous year, but scored sixteen fewer goals (26)
than his career-best total of 42 from the previous
season.
On 11 June, Manchester United accepted an
unconditional offer of £80 million from Real
Madrid for Ronaldo after it was revealed that he
again had expressed his desire to leave the club.
[51] It was confirmed by a representative of the
Glazer family that the sale was fully condoned by
Ferguson.[52] When Ronaldo had eventually
completed his transfer to Real, he expressed his
gratitude towards Ferguson for helping him
develop as a player, saying, "He's been my father
in sport, one of the most important factors and
most influential in my career."[53]
Real Madrid
Ronaldo with Real Madrid.
On 26 June 2009, Real Madrid confirmed that
Ronaldo would join the club on 1 July 2009, after
agreeing terms and signing a six-year contract.
[54] It is believed that Ronaldo's contract is worth
€13 million per season and it has a €1 billion buy-
out clause.[55] He was presented to the world
media as a Real Madrid player on 6 July,[56]
where he was handed the number 9 jersey.[57]
The shirt was presented to him by Madrid legend
Alfredo di Stéfano.[58] Ronaldo was welcomed
by 80,000 fans at his presentation at the Santiago
Bernabéu Stadium, surpassing Diego Maradona's
record of 75,000 fans when he was presented in
Italy, after he was transferred from Barcelona to
Napoli in 1984.[59]
Ronaldo made his Madrid debut on 21 July in a 1-0
win over Shamrock Rovers. His first goal came
one week later on a penalty in Madrid's 4-2 LDU
Quito.[60] On 29 August, Ronaldo capped his La
Liga debut with a goal, scoring Real's second
from the penalty spot in a 3–2 home win against
Deportivo La Coruña.[61] On 15 September,
Ronaldo scored his first Champions League goals,
both on free kicks, against FC Zürich in a 5-2 win.
[62] He broke a Madrid club record when he
scored in a league match against Villareal and
thus became the first ever player to score in his
first four La Liga appearances.[63]
An ankle injury suffered on 10 October, while
Ronaldo was on international duty with Portugal
against Hungary,[64] kept him out until 25
November, which in turn caused him to miss
both of Madrid's Champions League group stage
matches against A.C. Milan. Ronaldo made his
first post-injury start in a 1-0 El Clásico defeat to
Barcelona on 29 November. On 6 December, he
was sent off for the first time in his Madrid career
in Madrid's 4-2 victory against Almeria, a match
which also saw him miss a penalty. He was
carded first for removing his shirt during a goal
celebration, then for kicking out at an opponent
three minutes later.[65]

Cristiano Ronaldo
This is a Portuguese name; the first family name
is dos Santos and the second is Aveiro.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Personal information
Full name
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
Date of birth
5 February 1985 (age 25)
Place of birth
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Height
1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position
Winger
Forward
Club information
Current club
Real Madrid
Number
9
Youth career
1993–1995
Andorinha
1995–1997
Nacional
1997–2001
Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps†
(Gls)†
2001–2003
Sporting CP
25
(3)
2003–2009
Manchester United
196
(84)
2009–
Real Madrid
12
(9)
National team‡
2003–
Portugal
68
(22)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for
the domestic league only and correct as of 22:55,
24 January 2010 (UTC).
† Appearances (Goals).
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of
20:35, 10 October 2009 (UTC)