Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a striker for English Premier League club Manchester United and also captain for the Portugal national team. Often considered the best player in the world and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Ronaldo won five Ballon d'Or awards and four European Golden Boots. He has so far won 32 trophies in his career, including seven league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA European Championship and one UEFA Nations League. Ronaldo holds the record for most goals (134) and assists (42) in the Champions League, most goals in a UEFA European Championship (14), and most international goals by a male player (111). He is one of the few players recorded to have made more than 1,100 appearances throughout his professional career, and scored more than 780 official goals for both club and country.

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    Born and raised in Madeira, Ronaldo began his senior club career at Sporting CP, before signing for Manchester United in 2003 aged 18, winning the FA Cup in his first season. He went on to win three consecutive Premier League titles, the Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup. 

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    At the age of 23, he won his first Ballon d'Or. Ronaldo became the most expensive footballer at the time when he signed for Real Madrid in 2009 for a transfer fee of €94 million (£80 million), where he won 15 trophies, including two La Liga titles, two Copa del Rey and four Champions League titles, as well as being Real Madrid's all-time leading goalscorer. He has also been runner-up for the Ballon d'Or award three times, behind Lionel Messi, and won back-to-back Ballon d'Or in 2013 and 2014, and again in 2016 and 2017. In 2018.

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    Ronaldo signed a contract with Juventus for an initial transfer value of €100 million (£88 million), the most expensive transfer made by an Italian club and the most expensive transfer for a player over the age of 30. He won two Serie A titles, two Italian Super Cups and one Italian Cup, before returning to Manchester United in 2021.

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    One of the most famous athletes in the world, Ronaldo was ranked the first highest-paid athlete in the world according to Forbes magazine in 2016 and 2017 and the most famous athlete in the world according to ESPN from 2016 to 2019. Time magazine included him in the list of the 100 most influential people in the world. world in 2014. He is the first footballer and third sportsman to earn US$1 billion in his career.

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    Ronaldo is a prodigy for his family, because since he was in the womb, his mother had intended to abort the pregnancy due to economic shortages. At that time, Jose's father was a heavy alcoholic.
    but after her mother consulted a doctor, she was forbidden to abort her womb. finally ronaldo was born and raised in a catholic house where he had to share a narrow room with his siblings.

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    Since childhood Ronaldo could not be separated from the ball, even as a teenager he played with Andorinha a small club in Portugal for 3 years (1992-1995), because his father is a kitman in the andorinha.
    After that, he joined the nacional club with a period of 2 years, because of his good performance in football, he continued to a bigger club, namely Sporting CP for a fee of £ 1,500 (1964 us dollars).
    At the age of 14, Ronaldo believed he had the ability to play semi-professionally and agreed with his mother to stop his education in order to focus entirely on football. But instead he was kicked out first by his teacher for throwing a chair at him.

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    Unfortunately for Ronaldo, when his career was about to go up, he actually suffered from tachycardia, where there was a blockage in the path of his heart. After that, Ronaldo underwent surgery with a laser that burned several of his heart pathways and turned them into one so that he could regulate his rhythm at rest.
but that didn't stop him, he also after resting for a few days and then immediately returned to soccer practice.

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    At the age of 16, Ronaldo was promoted from the Sporting youth team to the first team by manager László Bölöni who was impressed with his dribbling. He went on to become the first player to play for the Under-16, Under-17 and Under-18, B team as well as the club's first team in a single season. A year later, on 29 September 2002, Ronaldo made his Primeira Liga debut against Braga and on 7 October, he scored twice as Sporting won 3–0 over Moreirense. During the 2002–03 season, Liverpool manager Gérard Houllier missed the opportunity to sign Ronaldo, while manager Arsène Wenger, who was interested in signing Ronaldo, met with him at Arsenal headquarters in November to discuss a possible transfer.

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    Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson was very determined to immediately sign Ronaldo on a permanent basis, after Sporting beat United 3–1 in the match marking the inauguration of the José Alvalade Stadium in August 2003. Initially, United planned to sign Ronaldo and then loan him back to Sporting for a period of time. a year.

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  Impressed by him, United's players urged Ferguson to sign him. After the match, Ferguson agreed to pay Sporting £12.24 million in order to buy Ronaldo who he considered "one of the most interesting young players" he had ever seen. A decade after his departure from Sporting, in April 2013, Sporting paid tribute to Ronaldo by choosing him to be the club's 100,000th member.
    And from there he started to become the most successful football player competing with lionel messi during his career.
    And in 2021 yesterday, ronaldo returned to Manchester United from the transfer of Juventus for £ 12.85 million with a contract for 2 years plus an optional contract extension for 1 year.
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