Cristiano Ronaldo Wiki Biography, Age, Wife, Family, Net Worth, Career & more

Cristiano Ronaldo Wiki Biography:- Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro particular known with the name Cristiano Ronaldo is a well-known Portuguese professional footballer who captains the Portugal national team and also plays as a forward player for Italy based Serie A club Juventus. He was born in Funchal City in Madeira Island, Portugal.

Ronaldo initially used to play for the amateur Portuguese team Andorinha and played for them from 1992 to 1995, where his father was the kit man. He then later spent two years with Portuguese football club Nacional. At a mere age of 16, he was promoted from Sporting’s youth team by first-team manager and a Romanian former footballer László Bölöni, who was very much impressed with his dribbling. Subsequently he became Manchester United’s first Portuguese player when he signed before the 2003–04 FA Premier league season.

Then ahead of the 2009–10 season, Ronaldo joined the Spanish professional football club “Real Madrid” for a world record transfer fee of £80 million (€94 million) at the time. His contract was worth €11 million per year and contained a €1 billion buy-out clause which ran until 2015. Then Ronaldo signed a four-year contract with Italian club Juventus after months of negotiation to sign a new Real Madrid contract. He signed for Juventus on 10 July 2018 after completing a €100 million transfer, which included an additional €12 million in other fees and also the solidarity contributions to Ronaldo’s youth clubs.

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Cristiano Ronaldo Career

• He initially played for amateur Portuguese team Andorinha from 1992 to 1995 where his father used to work as a Kitman.
• Then he was promoted from Sporting’s youth team by first-team manager László Bölöni at age 16.
• Then before the 2003–04 FA Premier league season, Ronaldo was signed by Manchester United Football Club and subsequently became first Portuguese player to play for Manchester United.
• Later ahead of the 2009–10 season, Ronaldo signed a deal with Real Madrid Football Club based in Madrid, Spain.
• After the termination of his contract with Real Madrid, Ronaldo signed a four-year contract with Italian club Juventus on 10 July 2018.
• Ronaldo then made his official debut for Juventus on 18 August in their opening Serie A match against Chievo.
• He won his first trophy the 2018 Supercoppa Italiana with Juventus in January 2019 after he scored the game-winning and only goal from a header against A.C. Milan Football Club.

Cristiano Ronaldo Age, Height, Weight

Cristiano Ronaldo’s age is 36 years. He is 6 feet 1 inches tall and his weight is 83 kgs. Ronaldo’s eye and hair colour are Dark and Light Brown respectively.

Cristiano Ronaldo Family

He was born on February 5, 1985 in Funchal City of Madeira Island in Portugal. His father’s name is José Dinis Aveiro (1953–2005) who was a municipal gardener and a part-time kit man for amateur Portuguese team Andorinha. Name of Ronaldo’s mother is Maria Dolores dos Santos Viveiros da Aveiro who was a cook. He also has 3 siblings, an Elder brother named Hugo and two Elder sisters named Elma and Liliana Cátia “Katia”.

Married Life & Girlfriend

As per internet sources he is Married to Spanish Fashion Model Georgina Rodriguez. They both were dating since 2016 but there marriage date is still unknown. Before their marriage Ronaldo was also in relationship with few other women and had affairs with Portuguese model and TV Presenter Merche Romero (2005), English Actress Gemma Atkinson (2007) and also with Russian model Irina Shayk (2010–2015).

Some Interesting Facts About Cristiano Ronaldo

• As per reports Cristiano’s mother revealed that she wanted to abort him because of poverty and also because of his father’s alcoholism. She further added she also wanted to abort him because she already had too many children, but her doctor completely refused to perform the abortion.
• As a child, Ronaldo played for amateur Portuguese team Andorinha from 1992 to 1995, where his father used to work as a kit man and then later spent two years with Nacional.
• Ronaldo was first Portuguese player to sign for Manchester United. He signed for the club before the 2003–04 season.
• He requested the number 28 which was his number at Sporting but received the number 7 shirt which had previously been worn by United players such as George Best, Eric Cantona and David Beckham. So, wearing the number 7 shirt became an extra source of motivation for Ronaldo.
• Ronaldo has a total of four children out of which three have been born with the process of surrogacy to surrogate mothers. He first became a father when his son named Cristiano Jr. was born via surrogacy on 17 June 2010. Then on 8 June 2017, the couple was blessed with twins through surrogacy and Ronaldo named this twin child Eva and Matteo.
• He was also given a two-year suspended jail sentence and fined €18.8 million for Tax Evasion in June 2018.

Favourite Things

• Cristiano’s all-time favourite footballers are Mario Jardel and Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima.
• One of his favourite actor is Luis Figo.
• He loves eating Portuguese Cuisines and Bacalhau a Braz.
• His favourite movie is 1999 film The Sixth Sense.

Social Media

Cristiano is very popular on Social Media Platforms. He has around 285M followers on Instagram. Besides Instagram Ronaldo is also very popular on Facebook. He has around 148M followers on Facebook.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s Net Worth

He has a net worth of around $450 Million USD and major source of his income is football and the brands he sponsors. He endorses brands like Herbalife Nutrition, KFC, American Tourister, and Tag Heuer.

Hobbies, Interests

Cristiano is very fond of doing Workout. Two of his favourite foods are Bacalhau a Braz and Portuguese Cuisines. Ronaldo also likes Swimming.