Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Juventus and captains the Portugal national team. Often considered the best player in the world and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Ronaldo has a record-tying five Ballon d'Or awards, the most for a European player, and is the first player to win four European Golden Shoes. He has won 28 trophies in his career, including six league titles, five UEFA Champions League titles and one UEFA European Championship. A prolific goalscorer, Ronaldo holds the records for most official goals scored in the UEFA Champions League (126), the UEFA European Championship (9), as well as those for most assists in the UEFA Champions League (34) and the UEFA European Championship (6). He has scored over 700 senior career goals for club and country.
1) The name “Ronaldo” was inspired by the favorite actor of his father and American president Ronald Reagan. Ronaldo’s full name is Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro.
2) Ronaldo's father, Jose Dinis Aveiro, passed away at the age of 52 due to alcoholism. As a result, Ronaldo does not drink alcohol because drinking it reminds him so much of the death of his father.
3) Ronaldo played his first game for Sporting Lisbon in the Portuguese Super League when he was just 17 years old and soon became one of the most admired young football players in the world.
4) He is the first Portuguese player signed by Manchester United.
5) As a teenager, he would be in the gym training using weights on either foot, and then dribbling with the ball. Ronaldo thought training with weights would improve his game technique because without weights, he would be even faster.
6) He was an amazing player, already wowing crowds when he was at 11 years old.
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