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Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro,
OIH, (
Portuguese pronunciation: [kɾɨʃtiˈɐnu ʁuˈnaɫdu]; born 5 February 1985),
commonly known as
Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a right winger or striker for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and is the captain of the
Portuguese national team. Ronaldo is the most expensive player in football history after moving from Manchester United to
Real Madrid in a transfer deal worth £80 million (€94m, US$132m). In addition, his contract with Real Madrid, in which he is to be paid £11 million per year over the following six years, makes him the highest-paid football player in the world,
and values him at €1 billion as per his buyout clause.
Ronaldo began his career as a youth player for Andorinha, where he played for two years, then moved to Nacional. In 1997, he made a move to Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal. Ronaldo's precocious talent caught the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and signed the 18-year-old for £12.24 million in 2003. The following season, Ronaldo won his first club honour, the
FA Cup and played at Euro 2004 with Portugal. Ronaldo scored his first international goal in the opening game of the tournament against Greece, although Greece won 2–1. Portugal reached
the final, which they again lost to Greece.
Ronaldo was the first player to win all four main
PFA and
FWA awards, doing so in 2007. In 2008, Ronaldo won the
Champions League with United, was named best forward and
player of the tournament and was the competition's top goalscorer as well as winning the
European Golden Shoe, becoming the first winger to do so, and topping the
Premier League Golden Boot award. He won three of the four main PFA and FWA trophies and was named the FIFPro, World Soccer and Onze d'Or Footballer of the Year
and the
FIFA World Player of the Year, in addition to becoming Manchester United's first Ballon d'Or winner in 40 years.
Ronaldo holds the distinction of being the first player to win the
FIFA Puskás Award, an honour handed by
FIFA to the best goal of the year. He scored that goal from 40 yards out against FC Porto in a EFA Champions League quarter-final match, while playing for Manchester United.
Three-time Ballon d'Or winner Johan Cruyff said in an interview on 2 April 2008, "Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United."
On 15 May 2011, Ronaldo became the highest goal scorer in a season in the history of
Real Madrid with 51 goals, surpassing the club's previous high of 49 by
Ferenc Puskás. He is also the first
Real Madrid player to ever reach as well as surpass 50 goals in a season. In the same match, Ronaldo equalLed the record of most goals ever scored in a season in La Liga with 38, tying Telmo Zarra's mark established in 1951 and Hugo Sanchez's mark matched in 1990. The newspaper Marca, the official deliverer of the Pichichi Trophy (the top La Liga goalscorer award), claimed that Ronaldo scored 39 goals, meaning he outscored the other two players.
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