Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo

Birthday : 1985/02/06

Full name : Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos AveiroPlace of

Birth : Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

Height : 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

Position : Right/Left Winger, Forward

Nickname(s) : Ronaldo, CR7, Ronnie, Rocket Ronaldo

Club information
Current club: Real Madrid (2009- )
Previous clubs: Sporting CP (2003-2005), Manchester United (2005-2009)
National team: Portugal (2003- )
Youth clubs: CF Andorinha (2001–2003)CD NacionalSporting CP

Cristiano Ronaldo Plays for Manchester united, he has won tons of awards, the Portuguese player has won the premier league many times and has also won on the scoring table. he has speed and skill more than anyone. So why write this biography now, when the player is still young? I guess the reason beneath this decision is quite obvious, Cristiano Ronaldo being already a consecrated footballer and is already one of the biggest stars of the show, despite his young age...

Cristiano Ronaldo is the guy who charges the hopes of winning the Euro 2008 for the portugal National Football Team . With his awesome speed and powerful kick and with great skill, Ronaldo is one of the best players in the world, making a great forward line in Manchester United with Wayne Rooney. Early in his career he was considered a troublemaker, but recently he’s grown up and is becoming one of the most respected players in the world. In 2007, he was chosen third best player in the world by FIFA and second best by France Football.
Cristiano Ronaldo Biography
Cristiano Ronaldo is the guy who charges the hopes of winning the Euro 2008 for the Portugal National Football Team. With his awesome speed and powerful kick and with great skill, Ronaldo is one of the best players in the world, making a great forward line in Manchester United with Wayne Rooney. Early in his career he was considered a troublemaker, but recently he’s grown up and is becoming one of the most respected players in the world. In 2007, he was chosen third best player in the world by FIFA and second best by France Football.
Cristiano Ronaldo Background
Cristiano Ronaldo was born in Funchal, Madeira 5 February 1985. Cristiano Ronaldo is the last son of Jose Diniz Aveiro and he has two sisters and one brother. The young kid from Madeira never was a good student in his childhood. In school, Ronaldo (he received this name as a tribute for former US president, Ronald Reagan) didn’t like to study and the only time he really worked hard were during meals when he and his pals used to play football all the time.

Such passion for the ball led him to Clube Futebol Andorinha de Santo Antonio - where his father used to work. Later, he went to the amateur league of Nacional da Ilha da Madeira, in 1995. In his first year at Nacional, Ronaldo won the kid’s championship, going to Lisbon at only 11 years old.
In Lisbon, Cristiano Ronaldo played on Sportig Lisbon as a youth. In September of 2002, the kid from Madeira Island started his professional career on the Sporting Lisbon pro club team, when he was only 17 years.

Ronaldo to Join Real Madrid for Record Price

LONDON — Cristiano Ronaldo, world player of the year in soccer in 2008, is poised to join Ricardo Kaká at Real Madrid, completing a lavish outlay by the Spanish club of more than €159 million for two of the best players in the world.

On Thursday, Manchester United, the English Premier League champion, announced that it had accepted €94 million, or $131.5 million, to sell Ronaldo to Real Madrid — the highest transfer fee in soccer. The move comes three days after Real Madrid tied up its €65 million bid for the Brazilian star Kaká from A.C. Milan.
Real Madrid will now negotiate terms with Ronaldo, a 24-year-old Portuguese midfielder. The Real Madrid president, Florentino Pérez, said he expected to reach agreement in a few days, and Pérez is known as an executive who gets his man.
Ronaldo will command at least the salary of Kaká, €9.1 million a year. Both players will share with Real Madrid income the club gets in shirt and product sales using their images.
Once Ronaldo’s contract is written — by June 30, according to Manchester United — it will value one player more highly than the entire amount that Newcastle United, an English club, has been put on the market for.
Real Madrid could make it three in a week by concluding the purchase of David Villa, the Spanish striker who plays for Valencia and is likely to be the top goal scorer available. Madrid and Valencia are haggling over the fee, but it will not be less than €38 million.
The deals leave no doubt that Madrid is on a mission. It is prepared to spend €250 million on player transactions, defying the global financial squeeze. It clearly signals the flamboyant return of Pérez as the club’s president.
He was the man behind the showy acquisition of the so-called Galacticos — the superstars Zinédine Zidane, Luís Figo, David Beckham and Robinho. Pérez, a billionaire construction magnate, said there was no price too high for the finest players — and no price he could not recoup by marketing them.
“Real Madrid must dismiss all doubt to be considered the most prestigious sports institution in the world,” he declared on the day he was re-elected Madrid’s president on June 1.
Ronaldo epitomizes Pérez’s concept of a marketable superstar. He is sculpted and good-looking. He is an exciting attacking player, one whose audacity with the ball bewitches the audience.
Though Ronaldo is among the best several players in the world, Madrid’s offer clearly proved too tempting for Malcolm Glazer and his sons, the Florida family that owns Manchester United. The BBC reported on its Web site that a spokesman for the family said the decision to sell Ronaldo was taken solely by the manager, Alex Ferguson.
“It was purely a football decision and had nothing to do with the financial structure of the club,” the spokesman said.
Ronaldo had wanted to join Madrid last season, angering many Manchester United fans, but was persuaded to stay for one more year. Manchester’s announcement of the deal made blunt reference to Ronaldo’s desire to move on, saying: “At Cristiano’s request — he has again expressed his desire to leave — and after discussion with the player’s representatives, United have agreed to give Real Madrid permission to talk to the player. Matters are expected to be concluded by 30 June.”
There were news reports in Spain that if Real failed to sign him this month, it would have to pay the Portuguese player and his agent €30 million in compensation.
Manchester United has declined comment beyond its statement, but Ferguson is surely already casting around for replacements.

Ronaldo’s ego was growing at United. His detractors cited his tendency to act alone, and to brood when substituted, traits that became potentially divisive. Critics believe he played for himself rather than the club the night United lost its Champions League crown to Barcelona last month.
There lies the crux of the sale. Madrid, in a three-year downturn, wants him to help win Europe’s greatest tournament. It is competing with its rival, Barcelona, which has the other top star in the world, , as well as two top homegrown players, Andrés Iniesta and Xavi Hernández.
So with the money chasing too few match winning performers, Ferguson is expected to pursue the purchase of two or more players who, together, might help the team overcome the loss of Ronaldo. He would like the French winger Franck Ribery, but his club Bayern Munich will raise the asking price with the Ronaldo money in mind. United would find it easier to buy the Ecuadorean winger Antonio Valencia. Fast, tricky, as yet untested at the level of Champions League, Valencia currently plays for the English club Wigan. He would fetch up to €20 million on the market.

Pérez is not spending his own money. He is an elected president, installed by the 75,000 members who pay to belong to Real Madrid in all its sporting interests, from soccer to basketball. The bulk of the money comes from Real’s ability to negotiate its own separate television rights, from the membership subscription, from ticket sales, and marketing.

But Pérez, a former politician as well as businessman, has managed to persuade banks to make millions of euros in loans that back his judgment on players.
Ronaldo was born on the Portuguese island of Madeira and always claimed that his mother particularly dreamed of her son playing in the all-white uniform of Real Madrid.
It is a matchup of the most glamorous champion team in the European Cup — now the Champions League — and a winger who craves to be the best.
His physique is strong as well as lithe. His “step overs” — using one foot and then the other over the ball at full speed — are breathtaking. His ability to strike free kicks from 40 meters, about 125 feet, to induce power and bend on the ball, eclipses even that of Beckham.
During the 2007-2008 season, in which Manchester won the English Premier League and the European Champions League, Ronaldo scored 42 goals.
Beckham was also sold by Manchester United to Real Madrid — in 2003, for £24 million. But Beckham does not have the skills to compare to Ronaldo, no pace, no ability to constantly astound. No winger since George Best, at Manchester United in the 1960s and early ’70s, has had such scoring potential. Despite a serious ankle injury at the start of the 2009 season, he has proven his versatility as a center forward who could, among other things, leap high to score in the air.
The followers of Real Madrid will know that their president covets attacking players at all costs. His failure to acknowledge the importance of defenders, however, is legend, and the lack of balance undid the team he built, or bought, during his first term as president, from 2000 to 2006.
So far, Pérez has reverted to type and chased attacking performers. Kaká is the most complete playmaker in world soccer, a man who makes others play by his passes and his vision. Ronaldo is a performer on the flank, down the center, in attacks or in midfield. Villa, if Madrid closes that deal, too, is an out-and-out striker, a finisher.
These players, and whoever else Madrid fields with them, will be handed over to Manuel Pellegrini, who was coaching the provincial Spanish club Villarreal until Real’s president signed him a week ago. Pellegrini will be handed the ingredients, and sink or swim with a collection of players more gifted than any he has commanded before.