Cristiano Ronaldo Bio, Wiki & Facts

# Cristiano Ronaldo one of the Most Valued Player of the Soccer World.

# Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro is popular as Cristiano Ronaldo, was a born on 5^th February 1985  in Santo António, a neighbourhood of Funchal, Madeira.

# He is the youngest child of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro, a cook, and José Dinis Aveiro, a municipal gardener.

# He has one older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Liliana Cátia.

# Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Portugal national team.

# He is a forward and serves as captain for Portugal. His jersey number is 7.

# Ronalado won his first Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards in the year 2008 and then in the year 2013 and 2014.

# In 2015, Ronaldo scored his 500th senior career goal for club and country.

# In 2015, Ronaldo was named the best Portuguese player of all time by the Portuguese Football Federation, during its 100th anniversary celebrations.

# He is the only player to win four European Golden Shoe awards.

# In 2016 Forbes named Ronaldo the world’s best paid athlete.

# In June 2016, ESPN ranked him the world’s most famous athlete.

# Ronaldo started his football career by playing for amateur team Andorinha, where his father was the kit man, and later spent two years with local club Nacional.

# Ronaldo began his club career playing for Sporting CP, before signing with Manchester United at age 18 in 2003.

# At the age of 14, Ronaldo stopped his education in order to focus entirely on football as believed he had the ability to play semi-professionally.

# After winning his first trophy, the FA Cup, during his first season in England, he helped Manchester United win three successive Premier League titles, a UEFA Champions League title, and a FIFA Club World Cup.

# By age 23, he had received Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations.

# Ronaldo holds the record for most goals scored in a single UEFA Champions League season, having scored 17 goals in the 2013–14 season.

# He is Portugal’s most capped player of all time with over 130 caps, and has participated in seven major tournaments: four UEFA European Championships (2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016) and three FIFA World Cups (2006, 2010 and 2014).

# He is the first Portuguese player to reach 50 international goals, making him Portugal’s all-time top goal scorer.

# As his reputation rapidly grew from his time at Manchester United, Ronaldo signed many sponsorship deals, including with the U.S. sportswear company Nike.

# Ronaldo is known as the most popular sportsperson on social media, he counted 158 million total followers across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by June 2015.

# His autobiography, titled Moments, was published in December 2007. His sponsor Castro produced the television film ‘Ronaldo: Tested to the Limit’, in which he is physically and mentally tested in several fields; his physical performance was consequently subject to scrutiny by world media upon the film’s release in September 2011.

# ‘Cristiano Ronaldo: The World at his Feet’, a documentary narrated by the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, was released via Vimeo and Vision Films in June 2014.

# A documentary film about his life and career, titled ‘Ronaldo’, was released worldwide on 9 November 2015.

# In December 2013, Ronaldo opened a museum, Museu CR7, in his hometown of Funchal, Madeira, to house trophies and memorabilia of his life and playing career.

# Ronaldo became the fourth footballer – after Steven Gerrard, Pelé and David Beckham – to be represented as a waxwork at Madame Tussauds London in June 2010.

# Ronaldo became a father on 17 June 2010 to a son.

# The child is named Cristiano, and nicknamed by the family ‘Cristianinho’, was born in the United States, and Ronaldo announced that he had full custody of his son.

# Ronaldo has never publicly revealed the identity of his son’s mother.

# As he is a regular blood donor, Ronaldo does not have any tattoos.

# As a philanthropist, Ronaldo became Save the Children’s new Global Artist Ambassador, in which he hopes to help fight child hunger and obesity in January 2013.

# In March, Ronaldo agreed to be the ambassador for The Mangrove Care Forum in Indonesia, an organisation aiming to raise awareness of mangrove conservation.