FOOTBALL LEGEND=CRISTIANO RONALD
Author : Aditya Mane
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro is a Portuguese professional footballerwho plays as aforwardforSerie AclubJuventusandcaptainsthePortugal national team. Often considered the best player in the world and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Ronaldo has won five Ballon d'Or awards and four European Golden Shoes, both of which are records for a European player. He has won 30 major trophies in his career, including seven league titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA European Championship title. Ronaldo holds the records for the most goals (134) and assists (41) in the history of the UEFA Champions League.He is one of the few recorded players to have made over1,000 professional career appearancesand has scored over750 senior career goalsfor club and country.He is also the second male athlete to score100 international goals, and the first European man to achieve the feat.
Born and raised in Madeira, Ronaldo began his senior club career playing for Sporting CP, before signing with Manchester United in 2003, aged 18. After winning the FA Cup in his first season, he helped United win three successive Premier League titles, the UEFA Champions League, and the FIFA Club World Cup; at age 23, he won his first Ballon d'Or. In 2009, Ronaldo was the subject of the then-most expensive association football transfer when signed for Real Madrid in a transfer worth €94million (£80million). There, he won 15 trophies, including twoLa Ligatitles, twoCopas del Rey, and four UEFA Champions League titles, and became the club's all-time top goal scorer. After joining Madrid, Ronaldo finished runner-up for the Ballon d'Or three times, behind Lionel Messi his perceived career rival—before winning back-to-back Ballons d'Or from2013–2014and again from2016–2017. After winning a third consecutive Champions League title in 2018, Ronaldo became the first player to win the trophy five times. In 2018, he signed for Juv entus in a transfer worth an initial €100 million (£88million), the highest fee ever paid by an Italian club and the highest ever paid for a player over 30 years old. He won theSerie Atitle in his first two seasons with the club.
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