Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born on 5 February 1985 in the São Pedro parish of Funchal, the capital of the Portuguese island of Madeira, and grow up in the closeby parish of Santo António. He is the youngest and fourth kid of Maria Dolores a cook and a municipal gardener and part-time kit man. His great-grandmother on his Papa side, Isabel da Piedade, was from São Vicente island, Cape Verde. He has one older brother, two older sisters and Hugo, Elma and Liliana Cátia “Katia”. His mother revealed that she needed to abort him due to poverty, his father’s alcoholism, and having too many kids already, but her doctor refused to perform the whole procedure. Ronaldo grew up in an poor Catholic Christian house, share a room with all his siblings.
Ronaldo’s daddy, José Aveiro, died of liver disease at age 52 in Sept. 2005. Ronaldo was 20 years old at that time. Ronaldo said that he did not like to drink alcohol, mostly as of his fathers death, but has on some very small occasions.
In 2006, Ronaldo had opened his first fashion boutique under the name “CR7” (his initials and shirt number) on the island he is born in, Madeira. He had opened a second boutique in Lisbon in 2008,[91] and a third one in 2009, situated in Madrid. In December 2013, Ronaldo had opened his museum called Museu CR7, which had all of his trophies and awards from its career.
As a kid, Ronaldo played for Andorinha from 1995 to 1992 where his papa was the kit man and later spent out two years with Nacional. In 1997, aged 12, he went on the three-day trial with Sporting CP, who sign up him for a fee of £1,500. He subsequently moved from Madeira to Alcochete, near Lisbon, to join the Sporting youth academy. By age 14, Ronaldo faith he had the potential to play semi-professionally and agreed with his mom to cease his education to aim entirely on soccer. With a troubled life journey as a student and living in Lisbon zone away from his Madeiran family, he didn’t completed schooling beyond a 6th grade.
Ronaldo has scored much more club goals than Messi, but only just and it should be noted that the Manchester United star profit from having played two more season than his Argentine nemesis thus far.
Each of them has remarkable netted over 690 club goals in their career so far, with a five seasons between 2009-10 and 2014-15 proved particularly golden as they forced each other to greater heights.
While Ronaldo presently has more goals overall, Messi has the pretty much edgy in the scoring department, with a high season average (37.9 to 35), having hit a higher of 73 goals in 2011-12, though his average drop after the disappointing maiden campaign at PSG in 2021-22.
Ronaldo’s highest season return was 61, which he attained in 2014-15, and he excel the 50-goal mark every seasoning for six years between 2010-11 and 2015-16.
Interestingly, while Ronaldo’s seasonal totals have declined somewhat in present years – he had failed to break the 30-goal mark in 2018-19 during his first seasoning at Juventus – Messi’s have remained compatible, though the Argentine’s rate slowed after joining PSG.
Ronaldo won his foremost trophy in England, the 2003-04 FA Cup, in june 2004, when Manchester United had beaten Millwall 3-0. Ronaldo had scored the initial goal of the match. Ronaldo had scored his foremost UEFA Champions League goals in a 7-1 victory against Roma in may 2007. He had scored two goals that day in its 30th Champions League match. That year, he had played in the FA Cup Final, but United had lost 1-0 to Chelsea. Even though he had lost the FA Cup final, he does not end the season without a title as he won his initial Premier League title.
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