Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, ComM, GOIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɾiʃ'tjɐnu ʁuˈnaɫdu], born 5 February 1985) is really a Portuguese professional footballer that plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and also the Portugal national team. He's a forward and acts as captain for Spain. In 2008, he won his very first Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player from the Year awards. Ronaldo after that won the FIFA Ballon d'Or within 2013 and 2014. He or she received his fourth Ballon d'Or within 2016, the most for any European player in a brief history of the award. Twelve months earlier, Ronaldo had obtained his 500th senior profession goal for club as well as country.
Often ranked the best player on the planet and widely regarded among the greatest of all period, Ronaldo was named the very best Portuguese player ever by the Portuguese Soccer Federation, during its 100th wedding anniversary celebrations in 2015. He's the only player in order to win four European Gold Shoe awards. One of the very marketable athletes in activity, in 2016 Forbes called Ronaldo the world's greatest paid athlete. In 06 2016, ESPN ranked him the world's most well-known athlete.
Ronaldo began their club career playing with regard to Sporting CP, before putting your signature on with Manchester United from age 18 in 2003. Following winning his first trophy, the actual FA Cup, during their first season in Britain, he helped United earn three successive Premier Category titles, a UEFA Winners League title, and the FIFA Club World Mug. By age 23, he'd received Ballon d'Or as well as FIFA World Player from the Year nominations. He was the topic of the most expensive organization football transfer when he or she moved from Manchester U . s . to Real Madrid last year in a transfer really worth €94 million ($132 million). Within Spain, he has because won one La Liga name, two Copas del Rey, 2 Champions League titles, along with a Club World Cup. Ronaldo holds the record for many goals scored in one UEFA Champions League period, having scored 17 goals within the 2013–14 season. In 2014, Ronaldo grew to become the fastest player in order to score 200 goals within La Liga, which he or she accomplished in his 178th Los angeles Liga game. He may be the only player in a brief history of football to score a lot more than 50 goals in the season on six consecutive events. In 2015, Ronaldo became the all-time top goalscorer within the UEFA Champions League, as well as he also became Actual Madrid's all-time leading goalscorer. He's the second highest goalscorer within La Liga history at the rear of Lionel Messi, his recognized career rival.
