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Cristiano Ronaldo biography, photos, personal life
Name: Cristiano Ronaldo
Date of birth: February 5, 1985
Age: 31 years
Place of birth: Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Height: 186 cm
Weight: 73 kg
Activity: Football player
Marital status: not married
Biography of Cristiano Ronaldo
The life story, biography of Cristiano Ronaldo is a classic story about a poor rootless boy from the outskirts of civilization, who by the will of heaven became the master of the world.
Ronnie - as his parents called him as a child was born on February 5, 1985 in the working class neighborhoods of Santo António.
what is on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
His father Jose Dinisha Aveiro was a simple gardener, his mother Maria Dolores dos Cainyni Aveiro was a cook.
The baby was strongly loved from the cradle and was taken care of by the whole friendly family.
after all, he was the youngest: his brother Ugu and his sisters Elma and Lilian Katia were weather girls, ten years older than him.
For his parents, he was a special, late gift, and he received his long name - Cristiano Ronaldo dos Cainyni Aveiro in honor of his father's favorite actor Ronald Reagan, who, before becoming president, managed to appear in 52 films.
Cristiano Ronaldo - childhood years of life
A cheerful family lived in a small old shack with a tin roof, on a hill overlooking the road.
The house was so tiny that the washing machine was kept on the roof, and, oddly enough, for Santa Antonio This was a sign of wealth.
"My childhood was difficult, but I never had a shortage of something," Cristiano recalls his biography of that time.
- My parents worked a lot and generally did everything.
so that we, the children, do not need anything."
No one will be surprised now that the first gift of a father to his son was a football, which is still kept in the family as a relic.
At the age of two, the toddler Cristiano was already kicking a ball on a sunny patio, and by the age of six it turned into a passion: "When I was 5, 6, 7 years old, I always asked my mother to give me a soccer ball.
No bike, no computer, no Game Boy - I didnot need any of this," says Ronaldo.
His godfather, Fernau Souza, confirms: "As a child, he only wanted to play football.
Cristiano was so passionate about the game that he often forgot about lunches, dinners and remained hungry.
Instead of learning lessons, he was chasing a ball - he simply climbed out of the bedroom window and ran away."
Indeed, the boy studied extremely poorly, and the only moment during the school day when he really tried was the lunch break, because he and his friends arranged football matches instead of eating.
Maria dos Santos , the first school teacher, vividly remembers the distinctive characteristics in the biography of student number 587: "From that day.
as Cristiano entered the classroom door, he loved only football.
No, he took part in other events, learned songs and somehow did his homework, but all he really needed was free time for himself and his football.
If there was no real ball at hand - and this happened often - he made it out of a sock.
He always found a way to play.
I do not know how he managed it."
Now it is already difficult to break through the myths that the residents of Santo António have wrapped around the growing up of their national hero, and to get to the truth - did the boy get caught for such idleness?
Now it seems natural to everyone that their countryman has always played ball.
The new students from Ronaldo's school all dream of becoming football players and "wear T shirts with his name and number," Maria adds.
And all the inhabitants of Madeira are waiting for him, like Santa Claus, when he will look at his homeland.
Meanwhile, when his son was eight years old, Papa Jose took him by the hand to the children's football team "Andorinha", where he worked as an administrator.
Team president Rune Santos recalls: "The first time I saw him, he was already unusual, more developed than other players.
And still, no one could have thought that he would achieve so much and so quickly."
In the team, Cristiano was nicknamed Abelinha, which means "Bee" in Portuguese.
"Because I was small, I ran around the field a lot, zigzagging and taking small steps.
It's funny, but I still run like this, " the football player says.
Another nickname was Kluivert in honor of Ronaldo's favorite Dutch football player Patrick Kluivert, who scored his first goal at the age of 18, and then several more memorable and unique ones for Milan and Juventus.
"Patrick charmed me with his game for Ajax in the Champions League final with AC Milan.
I watched him the whole match and admired him - he is so young, and he plays on equal terms with strong and adult players, " recalls Cristiano.
In general, the young athlete's guidelines were correct, and in his first football team, Ronaldo already behaved as befits a future champion.
Once "Andorinha" competed in the youth championship of Madeira with "Camacha" for the title of the best team of the island.
After the first half, Andorinha lost 2-0.
and during the break, Cristiano sobbed out loud.
And in the second half, he sucked in snot and inspired the whole team, scoring one goal and passing the second.
As a result, the team won 3-2.
"Even when he was crying, he didnot look like a loser," says the team president.
- He has the will to win.
And a strong spirit.
And he always cried when he lost, there is nothing unusual in this."
Cristiano Ronaldo football career
Ronaldo was 10 years old when he became the object of the first transfer in his sports career: he was bought by one of the leading teams of the island - National.
The future football star Ronaldo then cost them almost for free - for a two year set of football uniforms and boots for Andorinha.
Cristiano spent one season in a black and white striped uniform and with the rank of captain.
His dad said: "I watched each of his matches, and these are the most cherished memories.
Every time he played away from home, I was given a seat on the bus or plane.
Now, when he leaves to play, we mostly talk on the phone, his career does not allow us to spend a lot of time together."
Even then, it was obvious that the young athlete was developing at an unheard of speed: a year later, at the Nacional, he got a three day viewing at one of the best clubs in Portugal - Sporting.
And they immediately bought a nimble baby.
This meant that Ronaldo, at the age of 11, was waiting for a move to the capital.
And in complete solitude.
"I was very frail and with crooked teeth, I appeared before the coaches at the Sporting Academy," says Cristiano.
- They said: "You're a good player, but so fat..."
A nightmare.
This is not true.
In the children's league, I was one of the smallest in the team.
Once, encouraged by my mother, I convinced myself that if I ate two plates of soup and all other dishes in double size, it would accelerate my growth.
And it worked.
I donot know what was in my soup, but in two years I have stretched out very decently.
When I started playing in the first team of Sporting, I was still skinny, but I was 178 cm tall."
In general, the new life of the young football player categorically did not get better.
Firstly, no one in the capital understood him, because on the island of Madeira there is a very peculiar pronunciation.
Secondly, he was terribly teased for it.
"The Portuguese language is very rich in accents and shades, you can immediately distinguish a person from Porto from an inhabitant of Lisbon, a visitor from the south from a northerner, a resident of the coast from people from the central regions.
But Madeira is something special, " the athlete recalls.
- My first day at school was truly terrible.
I mostly spent time with a guy from Monte Gordo.
who also had an accent.
I didnot understand much of what he was saying, and he probably didnot understand me either.
That's how we stuck together.
I remember once I happened to go to school alone.
I was a little late, and the teacher had already started the roll call.
She called my name, and when I answered, the children behind me started laughing loudly, mimicking my accent.
Of course, this reaction confused me very much."
Soon, "a cheerful, obedient and good friend," according to a teacher from a junior school, turned into a serious and angry boy.
He was very angry and even threw chairs at the offenders.
"It was very strange that absolutely no one understands me," says Ronaldo.
- Several times I had the feeling that I was speaking some other language.
As soon as I opened my mouth, people immediately started laughing and mimicking me.
I felt like a perfect clown.
And he roared with shame.
I called my mother and said that I wanted to go home."
It wasnot so much the phone calls that Cristiano was allowed to make two or three times a week that helped out.
and the fact that he was not the only one who was grieving and sobbing.
However, fights with scoffers occurred almost daily.
In addition, Ronaldo did not want to accept the rules of the team.
One day, he reacted to the usual duty for students to wash dishes after themselves with a yell: "I came here to play football, not to turn into a maid."
As a punishment, he was ordered to take out the garbage for a whole week, but Cristiano rebelled and as a result was not allowed to attend the international children's tournament.
This brought him to his senses a little.
In addition, soon the authorities of Sporting recognized that Cristiano really needed support and sent for his mother to live nearby.
As a result, Ronaldo humbled himself: "I cried every day, but I liked being there.
I have learned a lot, especially how to live under pressure."
And not only this.
After all, in fact, Cristiano got into the football factory.
The Sporting club has its own football academy in Alcochete, one of the largest in Europe.
This is the best place for young talents, where coaches, educators, psychologists and doctors work with each pupil, who monitor all aspects of his life, controlling and directing growth.
The head of the Sporting club, Marques de Freitas, explains: "In fact, Cristiano is a product of the laboratory, the result of scientific work.
For example, doctors conducted a study of the bone density of Ronaldo to find out how much he will grow.
Because it is important for tall players to limit the time of playing football, when the backbone is formed.
The analysis showed that it will grow to 187 cm."
By the way, now the height of Cristiano is 186.5 cm.
In general, for six years, professionals from Alcoholics drove Ronaldo and built his body before releasing him on the field.
When 17 year old Ronaldo was finally allowed to play, he rushed into battle and managed to pass all four stages of the football academy in one season: he played for teams under 16, under 17, under 18, then for the reserve team and finally got into the main one.
There were no more such students in the history of the Sporting Club.
He started working in the adult national team as a ball boy: "They paid me 5 euros per game, but I would do it for free.
Money didnot mean anything - it was important to be closer to the field," says Ronaldo.
That year, he became a player of the main squad.
In the first game of the club, Ronaldo quickly scored two goals, and Sporting won 3-0.
"At the age of 18, he was already an adult, a real personality, a unique person: football for him is life, passion and pleasure," concludes Marques de Freitas.
We must pay tribute to Cristiano: he really matured early and at the same time did not allow success to turn his head.
He spent his first serious money not for entertainment, but helped his brother Ugh, who had been trying to recover from drug addiction for many years.
Since then, Uh huh, an artist and decorator by profession, has finally overcome the bad habit.
Eighteen years have become the happiest time in the biography of Ronaldo.
It was that year that the English club Manchester United came to Portugal for training camps and held a friendly match with Sporting.
To their amazement, the Red Devils lost 3-1, and they were especially annoyed by the young Ronaldo, of course.
And if on the way to Lisbon, the captain of Manchester United, Roy Keane, mumbled gloomily about "damn foreign suckers", then on the way back he was the first to convince the coach to take Ronaldo "hot".
Which Alex Ferguson immediately did, paying 12.24 million pounds for the 18 year old Portuguese.
And thus he turned into Cristiano's "father" and mentor for the next six years.
A week later, Cristiano was already flying to England, where he was waiting for the same problems with the language: "When I moved to Manchester, I did not speak English at all.
But it turned out to be not so scary, because I already had a rich Lisbon experience in finding a common language with my teammates."
"When there were rumors that he was going to Manchester, we couldnot believe it," says Ronaldo's sister Liliana Katia.
- But everything happened very quickly.
He was on the front pages of newspapers, on television.
It was crazy.
At the same time, Cristiano himself was calm, as if he was used to being in the center of attention."
At Manchester United, Ronaldo first asked for the number 28, under which he played at Sporting.
But instead he received a "seven" - a number that belonged to the legends of the English club - George West.
Bryan Robson, Eric Cantona and David Beckham.
"This famous T shirt with the number 7 became an additional source of motivation for me," the athlete recalls.
"I was forced to meet expectations after the honor given to me."
And immediately acquitted.
His debut was very bright.
He came on the field in the second hour of a tense game, when Manchester was losing to Bolton with a score of 1: 0. He sent two goals into the opponent's goal and scored a penalty.
The audience gave him a standing ovation.
The next day, all the newspapers were already calling him one of the best players in the history of Manchester.
The potential of the young player was obvious to the specialists.
"He can achieve everything he wants as a football player," said his compatriot and a graduate of the same football academy, Luis Figo.
In the meantime, Ronaldo suddenly became the most expensive teenage footballer in Britain: Manchester United paid a truly huge fee to the young talent - 12 million pounds for two seasons of playing at the club.
Ronaldo spent money primarily on his family.
Boldly hired one of the best architects in the world - Eduardo Souto de Moura, who was awarded the Pritzker Prize, and commissioned a project for a house in Madeira, in which later, his parents settled down.
In Manchester, Cristiano bought another house, where he settled cousins Nuno and Jose, who help Ronaldo with administrative issues.
He arranged his sister Liliana Katia in a cabaret, where she sings under the stage name Ronalda, and Elma got her chain of boutiques with the trade name CR7 after her brother's initials and his number in the club.
The following years, Ronaldo was successful.
He played for the Portuguese national team at Euro 2004, and although the Portuguese lost to the Greeks, Cristiano himself received the title of the best young player of the European Championship.
Which, by the way, did not prevent him from sobbing with burning tears and refusing the silver medal that they tried to give him.
His father explained: "He was angry.
because I missed something that I shouldnot have missed.
It was a shock and the end of a dream.
But at the same time, it is also a useful experience.
In the end, he will continue to play for the national team, because he is still one of the best players."
A year later, Papa Jose died of cirrhosis of the liver.
How Cristiano survived his death is unknown, he never talked about it.
But his pedantically sober lifestyle became an eternal monument to his father.
"Cristiano saw what alcohol did to his father," says a family friend, " and that's why he doesnot even drink beer.
He may have the talent of Diego Maradona or George Best, but he is not going to repeat their mistakes."
Meanwhile, everything was not so smooth on the field for Ronaldo himself.
He always performed with the best results, but the harsh British guys booed him more than once for the way he played.
The Portuguese was accused of simulation, of provoking penalties, of "diving" (that is, intentional falls), of inappropriate "dancing" during the game and excessive narcissism.
They called him a" clown "and"a woman on the field".
This had its own truth: Ronaldo really mocks the opponent during the match, constantly uses dribbling (deceptive maneuvers) feints, grimaces and even indecent gestures, for which he has repeatedly earned disqualification.
And although his style of play annoys many, it works flawlessly.
"For me, whistling is already the norm.
If this does not happen, I start to wonder: "Why arenot they booing me?"
Maybe they think that if they express their disapproval, I will lose concentration?
But I even like it. "
- Ronaldo grins.
Nothing prevented him from remaining the best.
"He plays in a very diverse way, and that's great," says Ferguson.
- Grasps everything on the fly.
He scored 16 goals in 40 matches for the Portuguese national team.
And this is at the age of 21!
This is an amazing statistic, Ronaldo has no equal in speed, in attack and in defense."
In proportion to the praise, his fees also grew, reaching 120 thousand pounds a week, and Cristiano Ronaldo became the highest paid football player in the team.
A year later, he signed a new contract with Manchester United with a salary of 144 thousand pounds a week, which became a record for an English club.
Fabulous wealth did not prevent him from earning money on the side.
Ronaldo has signed a record breaking $ 10 million contract in the history of sports with the Portuguese publishing house Ideias e Rumos for the publication of his autobiography.
And he was regularly photographed for magazines - it's not for nothing that he worked so carefully on his body, visited the gym, pressed his abs 3,000 times daily, shaved his chest and legs, wore tons of gel on his hair and did a pedicure.
However.
Ronaldo always clarified: "I'm a football player, not a model.
You just need to use the favorable moment.
And it's not true that I'm obsessed with exercise machines.
When I was younger, yes.
But not now.
With our schedule of games, I donot have much time to go to the gym.
In addition, regular physical activity is important both for playing football and for self esteem.
I want to be happy with myself."
It goes without saying that Ronaldo spent his "relief wealth" to attract girls, who, however, were already hanging around him.
However, the boys did not lag behind: the Gay Times newspaper proclaimed the Portuguese "the most beautiful man on Earth and the ideal partner".
On the part of the athlete, a refutation of such a dubious characteristic and a demonstration of some promiscuity in relations with women immediately followed.
Ronaldo got involved in one high - profile affair after another and the partners were either starry, or completely unknown young ladies.
However, all the passions were one more beautiful than the other.
For example, the British actress Gemma Atkinson, with whom Cristiano met for six months, had not only luxurious forms, but also useful skills in the household.
"I studied to be a stripper for Hollyoaks (British television soap opera.), and I'm doing great," Atkinson once introduced herself.
"I've hidden a couple of vicious moves for Cristiano."
However, their relationship ended after a scandalous party that Ronaldo threw with colleagues Nani and Anderson, celebrating another victory of his club.
To do this, they discharged five girls of easy virtue from a well known agency of intimate services and arranged a drunken orgy at Ronaldo's villa.
The next day, the young ladies sold photos and videos from mobile phones to the newspapers.
As a result, the agency fired the girls, and the beautiful Gemma Ronaldo.
He was not at a loss and, so that fans around the world would not consider what happened to be his usual way of life, cheerfully reported to the newspapers: "I donot drink alcohol, I donot smoke and I'm not a spender at all.
And in general, I live in a rural part of the Cheshire county, and my closest neighbors are squirrels, birds and cows.
I spend a lot of time at home, with my friends and family, and I enjoy a peaceful life.
To relax, I often sit by candlelight, because peace is very important to me."
Despite the scandals and gossip, Ronaldo spent the next few years exclusively collecting awards and titles.
It began with the title of " footballer of the year "and" best young footballer of 2006", and by 2008 it was supplemented with the" Golden Ball"," Golden Boot", the title of the best football player in the world, the best striker in Europe and the best scorer of the Champions League.
All the trophies that a football player can get in the UK were on the shelves of Cristiano.
There are about 13 individual awards for the season in total.
Ronaldo did not offend his native club either: he helped Manchester City get the English Super Cup, the Premier League title and the title of champions of England, setting an incredible record for the midfielder of 42 goals per season.
The loving Portuguese celebrated his victories according to a good tradition by calling two girls to the house, which was noted by the ubiquitous paparazzi.
Cristiano Ronaldo personal life
However, his love for women did not prevent Ronaldo's relationship with another passion - he met Nereida Gallardo for eight months after he met her in one of the nightclubs.
All in piercings and tattoos.
a Catholic and a biker in one person, the girl worked in one of the state shelters, receiving a living wage.
Cristiano even introduced his flighty girlfriend to his mother, and Nereida introduced him to her parents, after which she announced the wedding on Facebook.
This was the unexpected end of their relationship.
Cristiano went to Amsterdam to operate on his leg injured at Euro 2008, and Nereida was never able to visit him, allegedly falling and also injuring her leg.
Which, however, did not prevent her from going to Ibipa with a friend.
Since then, the girl willingly shoots naked with a football uniform at the ready and gives interviews about her star romance.
"Besides football, Ronaldo has three other hobbies in his life: Sony PlayStation, nightclubs and girls, girls, girls!" she says.
Indeed, Ronnie considers the penthouse in Los Angeles to be his favorite home, where he regularly arranges his famous "holidays" with girls.
In addition to unnamed girlfriends, the press counted Cristiano's more than 150 mistresses, and 108 of them are English.
The list is diverse: models, actresses, singers, TV presenters, the younger sister of a former colleague from "Sporting", a primary school teacher who had sex only in complete darkness.
The football player's novels with blonde actress Anna Faris from the comedy "A Very Scary Movie", TV journalist Merche Romero and Italian model Legacia Filippi attracted special attention.
There is also an unbalanced 21 year old beauty Raffaella Fico, who not only starred in the Italian version of the reality show "Big Brother", but also became famous for selling her virginity at auction for a million euros.
However, she ignored the found buyer.
The list is really endless and quite far from reality.
The funny thing is that in all the photos taken by the paparazzi, Cristiano is doing the same thing with the girls: resting on the beach or on a yacht, so it's not so easy to distinguish between beauties in bikinis.
Meanwhile, Ronaldo did not forget to prepare for a great transfer to Real Madrid.
Rumors about the poaching of the best football player on the planet have been exaggerated for several years, Manchester even filed a complaint with the International Football Federation (FIFA) because their player is being pressured.
But all to no avail.
After the defeat of the English club in Euro 2008, Ronaldo became bolder to say that he was going to Real Madrid.
And after the defeat of Manchester and in the Champions League final in 2009, the British accepted the offer of Real Madrid to sell Ronaldo for 93.4 million euros.
Thus, the midfielder became the most expensive player in the history of world football, breaking the record of Zinedine Zidane, who moved from Juventus Turin to Real Madrid for 76 million euros.
In addition, the Portuguese himself became the most expensive futb the biggest player in the world in the history of football: he receives 13 million euros a year almost twice as much as the team captain Raul Gonzalez.
And Real Madrid also insured its "treasure" for a record amount of 100 million euros for football.
So Ronaldo outgrew Manchester ,and ran, feeling the dissonance of personal success and collective failures: "After we won the Champions League, I understood: there is nothing else I havenot won with Manchester United.
However, I stayed with the team for the next season, I enjoyed this time, but at the same time I understood that my dream is to play for Real Madrid.
Of course, I didnot switch because of the money.
It's just that my desire is to be the best player in the world.
I think you understand yourself: if you are the best player of Real Madrid, then you are one of the best players in the history of football."
Now Cristiano Ronaldo is really in the Premier League of life.
And first of all, this was reflected in his passions.
To celebrate, the football player threw a party at the Hollywood club My House, where he met Paris Hilton.
As a result, they sat side by side in the same chair all night.
Witnesses told me: "It looked like pornography.
Paris's black miniskirt rose higher and higher.
At a certain point, people at the next table started throwing silver confetti at them.
One of them stuck to Paris ' thigh, which she coquettishly wiped on Ronaldo's knee."
However, the novel turned out to be fleeting, even by Cristiano's standards: just one weekend.
After that, Ronaldo, with the words "it seems to me that Paris needs a mature, intelligent man who can take care of her with love," left for Europe.
Where he took comfort on the shoulder of the sexiest woman in Asia and the Bollywood star Bipasha Basu.
And some time later, he was seen kissing in a Miami restaurant with the star of the American show "Dancing with the Stars" and socialite Kim Kardashian.
It becomes boring to list Ronaldo's successes at some point, but the amazing thing is that there are no exaggerations, the Portuguese has really never made a mistake either in sports, money, or love.
And moving from cold England to hot Spain only added to his fire.
He sold his house in Cheshire with a profit for 6 million pounds - to a colleague, football player Kolo Toure from Manchester City.
And I rented and then bought a new house with seven bedrooms and two swimming pools near Madrid.
The football player's irrepressible passion for buying and selling real estate even got its name in the press - "Ronopolia" by analogy with the game"Monopoly".
Now Ronaldo has four luxury houses, an apartment and a hotel worth 9 million euros in Portugal, houses in England, and now in Spain, not counting his sister's shops.
In addition to the CR7 brand, Ronaldo has now opened CR9.
according to his new number at Real Madrid.
Well, for small things: 238,820 euros went out of the pocket of a football player to the Real Madrid club for renting a VIP box at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, from where his relatives and friends can watch the matches.
Ronaldo continues to appear in ads for Jeans and Calvin Klein, Nike and Armani.
He does not disdain TV ads for engine oil, shampoo and a Portuguese bank and enjoys his photo shoots for Vanity Fair magazine.
And this does not affect his direct duties in any way: at Real Madrid, he has already set a record, scoring 50 goals in 51 league matches.
Now he has about fifty personal achievements and titles, most of which begin with "the best football player/scorer/player".
And for the fullness of happiness, the German magazine Spiegel conducted a study and found out that Ronaldo is the fastest football player in the world: he is able to reach a speed of 33.7 km/h, despite, for example, that the world record holder in the hundred meter race Usain Bol sp
