Presentation
Cristiano
Ronaldo
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Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro,
Childhood and family:
Beginning steps of his
career:
Personality and Engagement:
Private stuff:
Actual Career, records and
important facts:
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro,
he was born on February 5th, 1985 and is commonly known
as Cristiano Ronaldo or CR7 in the social
media. Cristiano is a Portuguese football player who plays as a
forward for the Spanish football club Real Madrid and serves as captain of the
Portuguese national football team. Ronaldo currently holds the record of being
the most expensive player in football history after having transferred to Real
Madrid from Manchester United in a deal worth £80 million (€94m, US$132m). He
played in the youth for Portuguese football clubs like Andorinha, Nacional and
Sporting Lissabon before he moved to Manchester United. His contract now with
Real Madrid is believed to have made him the highest-paid football player in
the world with £21million a year. He renewed his contract til 2018 and is now
worth £100 million but you have to pay a billion euro to buy him before his
contract ends.
Childhood and family:
Cristiano Ronaldo's family was really poor, so they didn't had a
lot of money. And he even hadn't a great childhood with his father as alcoholic
which brought problems into the family. He didn't liked school so much but he
loved football, his mother told in a interview with Portuguese magazines that
everyday even if he was tired, when he got back home from school that he always
went playing football and didn't liked it much to do homework. She also told
that Ronaldo was popular with other students at school, but he was expelled at
the age of 14 after he threw a chair at his teacher. Ronaldo once said the
reason he did it was because the teacher disrespected him. Despite it being a
negative thing, it turned into a great turning point in his life. His mother
then encouraged him to focus all his attention on football which he did and
turned him into an international sensation. Ronaldo has an older brother and
two older sisters. His father passed away in 2005 when Ronaldo was just 20
years old. In 2007 his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer so he had to
face a lot of personal challenges. Now he lives in Madrid and has a girlfriend,
he's in a relationship with the Russian model Irina Shayk since 2010 and he has
a son who goes by the name Cristiano Ronaldo Junior.
Beginning steps of his career:
Ronaldo began his career as a youth player for Andorinha, a little
club in Portugal near Lissabon, where he played for two years, then he moved to
Nacional which is also in Portugal and near to Lissabon. In 1997, he made a
move to Portuguese giants Sporting Lissabon CP. In 2000 when he was 15 years
old he was diagnosed with with a racing heart, a condition that might have
forced him to give up playing football. 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. He is a
very motivated sportsman and that also showed his love to football. The heart
disease might had ended Ronaldos career. But he fought against it and also
worked hard in the gym, he used weights on his foots to exercise which made him
very fast. After getting better Ronaldo's precocious talent caught the
attention of many football managers and also from Manchester United manager Alex
Ferguson which signed the 18-year-old for £12.24 million in 2003.The following
season, Cristiano won his first club honor, the FA Cup, and reached the Euro
2004 final with Portugal, in which tournament he scored his first international
goal. This was
a great way to expand his career
Personality and Engagement:
After
the tournament he started to get more famous and he built himself up a
reputation which brought him a lot of fans and also a lot of haters. Ronaldo is
called “cry-baby” because he's always dissatisfied when he passes the ball and
his teammate doesn't score. But only because he want his team to succeed.
Ronaldo is also called arrogant and bad hearted because he doesn't like to
lose. He said in an interview with the mirror that it makes him sad that people
call him arrogant and hate him but it even makes him stronger and motivates him
to be a better person. There are a lot of people that hate him but I really
can't understand why. Cristiano does not drink any alcohol because of it reminds
him of his father and simply because he lives healthy. He also does not smoke
or takes drugs and he hasn't any tattoos on his skin. Cristiano donates a lot
of money to charities and he also regulary donates blood. He also works with
foundations like UNICEF, World Vision, Save the Children, Cahonas Scotland and
Aid Still Required. But Ronaldo also donates money without telling it to the
media. Just a couple months ago he payed a operation of a brain diseased 10
months old baby. In November 2012, Ronaldo sold the golden boot he had won in 2011
for €1.5 million and gave the money to fund school's for children in Gaza. In
December 2012, Ronaldo joined FIFA's '11 for Health' programm to raise
awareness amongst kids of how to steer clear of conditions including drug
addiction, HIV, malaria and obesity. If you don't believe me that he's a very nice and
kindhearted person, read this story where Cristiano admits that he owes his
succesful career to one of his closest friends, Albert Fantrau.
"I have to thank my friend Albert for my success. We played
together for a youth club. When people from Sporting Lissabon arrived, they
told us that whoever scored more goals would be accepted to their Academy. We
won that game 3-0, I scored the first goal, Albert scored the second, and the
third was a goal that impressed everyone. Albert went to one on one with the
goalkeeper. I was running next to him, he went round the keeper, all he needed
to do was just to get the ball into the empty net. But, he passed it to me and
I scored. I was accepted to the Academy. After the match, I approached him and
asked him "why" and he answered; "You're better than me".
Several weeks later, the journalist went to Albert's house and asked whether
the story was true. He confirmed. He also said that his career as a football
player finished after that match and he is now unemployed. "But where did
you get such a gorgeous house, a car? You seemed to be a rich person. You also
maintain your family ... .. Where is all this from?" asked the journalist.
Albert proudly replied; it's from Cristiano.
Private stuff:
He is a devout Roman Catholic. Ronaldo opened a fashion boutique
under the name "CR7" (his initials and shirt number) on the island of
Madeira in Portugal. Cristiano expanded his business with a second clothes
boutique in Lisbon in 2008. The stores include diamond-studded belts, jeans
with leather pockets, patented Underwear and Shirts. He is also collaborating
with the sports label Nike and with companies like Pepsi. Ronaldo has published
an autobiography which is called “titled moments” in 2007 and there is also a
Museum which is named Museu CR7 in his hometown Funchal in Portugal. Cristiano
is in a relationship with the Russian model Irina Shayk since 2010 and he
became father few months later. Ronaldo is modeling for Armani and works with Coca-Cola,
Castrol, Konami, Banco Espirito Santo, Motorola, Jacob & Co., Herbalife,
KFC, Tag Heuer and Fly Emirates. This year he was awarded as the best player of the world
for the second time, the award is also called Ballon d'or.
Actual Career, records and
important facts:
Cristiano Ronaldo is widely regarded as one of the two best
players in the world within his generation (the other being Lionel Messi),
Cristiano Ronaldo plays an attacking role, most often he is playing as either a
striker or as a winger, and is known for his finishing, pace, dribbling,
positioning, crossing and free kick ability. When Ronaldo jumps, he generates a
strong take-off power which is five timesmore than the power of a cheetah in
full flight. This enables him to reach heights of 44cm in the air from a
standing start and 78cm with a run-up - 7cm more than the average NBA player. Cristiano
Ronaldo's body fat is about 10 percent which makes him the perfect machine for
fast sprinting and athletic courses.
The body fat from a fitness model is about 12 percent.
Cristiano
actually plays for Real Madrid, a spanish football club which is in the first
division of the spanish football association. His latest important final was on
May 25th he won the Champions League with his team in a dramatic
120 minute final, where they were losing 1-0 against the club rival Athletic
Madrid.The game was already lost but they equalized in the 94 minute and won
4-1 at the end. In his career he has won 16 club trophy's and 16 personal
trophy's.
In
this chart you can see which trophy's he has won.
Personal trophy's
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With Manchester United
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With Real Madrid
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National (Portugal)
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8x topscorer
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3x english champion
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2x spanish cup champion
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1x 2nd placed in the
european cup 2004
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3x golden boot winner
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2x english club champion
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1x spanish supercup
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2x football player of england
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2x english supercup
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1x european cup champion
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2x football player of the world
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1x fifa club champion
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1x champions league winner
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1x best player of europe
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1x champions league winner
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1x spanish champion
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1x league cup winner
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Games played (goals scored) :
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290 (170)
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258 (271)
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121 (51)
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Quellen:
Website from Cristiano Ronaldo, Transfermarkt Germany, the Mirror (Englische
Zeitung)