Decorated football player Santos Aveiro known to many as Cristiano Ronaldo is trending.
This was after it was announced that he was leaving Manchester United with immediate effect after a mutual agreement between him and the management.
Here are things you did not know about Ronaldo
- His real name is Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro.
- He is aged 37.
- Ronaldo is married to Georgina Rodriguez, the duo met in 2016 while the model was working at a Gucci store.
- The couple has 4 kids.
- The firstborn child is Cristianinho. He also has twins, Mateo and Eva Maria Dos Santos who he fathered with someone else.
- Ronaldo has two sisters named Elma Aveiroand Katia Aveiro. He also has a brother named Hugo.
- The decorated player is the youngest child of Maria Dolores Aveiro and Jose Dinis Aveiro. Ronaldo's father passed away in 2005 at the age of 53 as a result of liver failure.
He has played played for
Sporting CP 2002-2003 scored 5 goals.
- Manchester United 2003-2009 scored 118 goals.
- Real Madrid 2009-2018 scored 450 goals
- Juventus 2018-2021 scored 101 goals
- Manchester United 2021- 2022-he delivered a total of 145 goals.
- Ronaldo is also one of the highest-paid athletes on Instagram with over 500 million followers.
- He has over 105 million followers on Twitter and over 154 million followers on Facebook.
- Cristiano Ronaldo has won the Ballon d'Or on five occasions, which is second only to Lionel Messi picking it up seven times.
- The Portuguese international collected the honor in 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2017. He has also placed second six times (2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2018) and once in third (2019)
- In November 2016 he became the third person (after basketball superstars Michael Jordan and LeBron James) to earn a “lifetime” contract from the sportswear company Nike.
- Ronaldo and his wife lost a child in 2022, the couple was expectant with twins, a boy, and a girl. The boy passed away but the girl survived.
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