Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro GOIH ComM (
footballer who plays as a
forward for Italian club
Juventus and the
Portuguese national team. Often considered the best player in the world and regarded by many as one of the
greatest players of all time,
[4][5][6][7] Ronaldo has a record-tying five
Ballon d'Or awards,
[note 1] the most for a European player, and is the first player to win four
European Golden Shoes. He has won
26 trophies in his career, including five league titles, five
UEFA Champions League titles and one
UEFA European Championship. A prolific goalscorer, Ronaldo holds the records for most official goals scored in Europe's top-five leagues (395), the UEFA Champions League (120), the UEFA European Championship (9), as well as those for most assists in the UEFA Champions League (34) and the UEFA European Championship (6). He has scored over
670 senior career goals for club and country.

born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional
Born and raised on the Portuguese island of
Madeira, Ronaldo was diagnosed with a
racing heart at age 15. He underwent an operation to treat his condition, and began his senior club career playing for
Sporting CP, before signing with
Manchester United at age 18 in 2003. After winning his first trophy, the
FA Cup, during his first season in England, he helped United win three successive
Premier League titles, a UEFA Champions League title, and a
FIFA Club World Cup. By age 22, he had received Ballon d'Or and
FIFA World Player of the Year nominations and at age 23, he won his first Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2009, Ronaldo was the subject of the
most expensive association football transfer[note 2] when he moved from Manchester United to
Real Madrid in a
transfer worth €94 million (£80 million).

In Madrid, Ronaldo won 15 trophies, including two
La Liga titles, two
Copas del Rey, four UEFA Champions League titles, two
UEFA Super Cups, and three FIFA Club World Cups.
Real Madrid's all-time top goalscorer, Ronaldo scored
a record 34 La Liga hat-tricks, including a record-tying eight hat-tricks in the
2014–15 season
[note 3] and is the only player to reach 30 goals in six consecutive La Liga seasons. 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 in
2013 and
2014. After winning the
2016 and
2017 Champions Leagues, Ronaldo secured back-to-back Ballons d'Or again in
2016 and
2017. A historic
third consecutive Champions League followed, making Ronaldo the first player to win the trophy five times.
[8] In 2018, he signed for Juventus in a transfer worth €100 million, the highest fee ever paid for a player over 30 years old, and the highest ever paid by an Italian club.
A Portuguese international, Ronaldo was named the best Portuguese player of all time by the
Portuguese Football Federation in 2015. He made his senior debut for Portugal in 2003 at age 18, and has since had
over 150 caps, including appearing and scoring in eight major tournaments, becoming
Portugal's most capped player and
his country's all-time top goalscorer. He scored his first international goal at
Euro 2004 and helped Portugal reach
the final. He
took over full captaincy in July 2008, leading Portugal to their first-ever triumph in a major tournament by winning
Euro 2016, and received the
Silver Boot as the second-highest goalscorer of the tournament, before becoming the highest European
international goalscorer of all-time.
[9] One of the most marketable athletes in the world, he was ranked the
world's highest-paid athlete by
Forbes in 2016 and 2017, as well as the world's most famous athlete by
ESPN in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
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