Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro GOIH ComM (European Portuguese: birthed 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese expert footballer who plays as an ahead for Serie A club Juventus and captains the Portugal national group. Often thought about the best player worldwide and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Ronaldo has actually won five FIFA Ballon d’or/ Finest FIFA Men’s Gamer honors, the most for a European gamer, and also four European Golden Shoes. He has won 29 prizes in his career, including 6 organization titles, five UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA European Champion, and also one UEFA Nations Organization. A respected goalscorer, Ronaldo holds the records for a lot of objectives racked up in the UEFA Champions League (127) and the UEFA European Champion (9 ). He has actually scored over 700 elderly job goals for club and country.

Born as well as increased on the Portuguese island of Madeira, Ronaldo was detected with an auto racing heart at age 15. He went through a procedure to treat his condition, and started his senior club job playing for Sporting CP, before signing with Manchester United at age 18 in 2003. After winning his initial trophy in England, the FA Mug, throughout his initial season there, he assisted United win three successive Premier League titles, a UEFA Champions League title, as well as a FIFA Club World Cup. By age 22, he had actually obtained Ballon d’Or as well as FIFA World Player of the Year nominations and also at age 23, he won his initial Ballon d’Or as well as FIFA Globe Gamer of the Year honors. In 2009, Ronaldo was the topic of one of the most costly association football transfer at the time when he moved from Manchester United to Genuine Madrid in a transfer worth EUR94 million (₤ 80 million).

With Real Madrid, Ronaldo won 15 prizes, consisting of 2 La Liga titles, 2 Copas del Rey as well as four UEFA Champions League titles. Real Madrid’s all-time top goalscorer, Ronaldo scored a record 34 La Liga hat-tricks, consisting of a record-tying eight hat-tricks in the 2014– 15 period and is the only player to reach 30 objectives in 6 consecutive La Liga seasons. After signing up with Madrid, Ronaldo finished runner-up for the Ballon d’Or 3 times, behind Lionel Messi, his viewed career opponent, before winning back-to-back Ballons d’Or in 2013 and 2014. After winning consecutive Champions League titles, Ronaldo safeguarded back-to-back Ballons d’Or once again in 2016 as well as 2017. A historical 3rd successive Champions Organization complied with, making Ronaldo the very first player to win the prize five times. In 2018, he signed for Juventus in a transfer worth a preliminary EUR100 million; the greatest ever before paid by an Italian club and the highest possible charge ever before spent for a gamer over three decades old. In his initial season he won Serie An as well as the Supercoppa Italiana, as well as was likewise called Serie A Most Prized Possession Player.

Ronaldo was called the best Portuguese player of perpetuity by the Portuguese Football Federation in 2015. He made his elderly launching in 2003 at age 18, and has because made over 160 caps, showing up and scoring in ten major events, becoming Portugal’s most capped player and also his country’s all-time leading goalscorer. He scored his first worldwide objective at Euro 2004 and helped Portugal reach the UEFA Euro 2004 Final of the competitors. He ended up being captain in July 2008, leading Portugal to their first-ever victory in a significant event by winning Euro 2016, and got the Silver Boot. He came to be the greatest European global goalscorer of all-time in 2018.

Among the most marketable professional athletes on the planet, Ronaldo was ranked the globe’s highest-paid professional athlete by Forbes in 2016 as well as 2017 and as the globe’s most popular athlete by ESPN in 2016, 2017, 2018 and also 2019. Time included him on their listing of the 100 most prominent individuals on the planet in 2014. Since September 2019, Ronaldo is likewise the most adhered to user on Instagram.