Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro commonly known as Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Juventus and captains the Portugal national team. He was born in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
Cristiano Ronaldo played for amateur team Andorinha from 1992 to 1995, where his father was the kit man, and later spent two years with Nacional. At age 16, Ronaldo was promoted from Sporting’s youth team by first-team manager László Bölöni, who was impressed with his dribbling. Ronaldo became Manchester United’s first Portuguese player when he signed before the 2003–04 season.
Then ahead of the 2009–10 season, Ronaldo joined Real Madrid for a world record transfer fee at the time, of £80 million (€94 million). His contract, which ran until 2015, was worth €11 million per year and contained a €1 billion buy-out clause. After that despite months of negotiation to sign a new Real Madrid contract, on 10 July 2018, Ronaldo signed a four-year contract with Italian club Juventus after completing a €100 million transfer, which included an additional €12 million in other fees, and solidarity contributions to Ronaldo’s youth clubs.
Cristiano Ronaldo is quite popular on Social Media Platforms. He has around 249M followers on Instagram. Besides Instagram he is also very popular on Facebook. He has around 143M followers on Facebook.
