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This is a look at the life of professional soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo.
Personal information
Date of birth:
February 5, 1985
Place of birth:
Funchal, Portugal
Birth name:
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
Father:
Jose Dinis Aveiro, gardener
Mother:
Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro, cook
Children:
with Georgina Rodríguez: Alana, 2017 (mother's name not publicly available);
Eva and Mateo (twins), 2017 (mother's name not publicly available);
Christian Jr., 2010
Other facts about Cristiano Ronaldo
Portugal's all-time top international goalscorer.
Winner of the Golden Ball for best footballer of the year five times (2008, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017), and the European Golden Shoe four times (2007-08, 2010-11, 2013-14 and 2014-15).
One of his acts of charity was to pay for brain surgery on a 10-month-old boy.
Other acts include raising funds for survivors of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami and paying for the treatment of a 9-year-old cancer patient.
His father named him after United States President Ronald Reagan.
Chronology
Early 1990s:
Joins the local Andorinha amateur team.
Late 1990s –
Joins Clube Desportivo Nacional da Madeira, one of Portugal's leading professional football clubs.
Early 2000s –
Signs with Sporting Clube de Portugal.
August 12, 2003 –
Signs with Manchester United for £12.24 million (US$19.7 million).
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August 20, 2003:
Debuts with the Portuguese national team.
June-July 2004:
Represents Portugal in the UEFA European Championship and scores a goal in the first tournament.
This is his first major international tournament.
July 2004:
Plays for Portugal during the Olympic Games.
Portugal is eliminated in the group stage.
2005:
Wins the FIFPro Special Young Player of the Year award.
October 2005: He
is investigated for an alleged sexual assault, but no charges are brought against him.
June 17, 2006 –
Scores his first World Cup goal against Iran.
Portugal wins 2-0.
2008:
Wins the FIFA World Player of the Year award.
2009:
Transfer to Real Madrid.
The deal includes a transfer fee of £80 million (over $130 million).
December 15, 2013 –
Opens a museum dedicated to his football career in his hometown of Funchal, Portugal.
January 6, 2014 –
Scores his 400th career goal.
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January 20, 2014 –
Appointed a Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry.
17 October 2015:
Officially becomes Real Madrid's all-time leading goalscorer in the club's 3-0 win over Levante at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium.
November 9, 2015:
The documentary "Ronaldo" premieres in London.
November 8, 2016:
Signs a "lifetime" endorsement deal with Nike.
January 2017 –
Named the first FIFA Best Men's Player in 2016.
June 13, 2017:
He is accused of defrauding Spanish authorities of US$16.4 million in taxes between 2011 and 2014.
August 14, 2017:
According to the Spanish Football Federation, Ronaldo was banned for five matches following his red card in Real Madrid's 3-1 win over rival Barcelona.
In addition to a one-game red card ban, he missed four more games for pushing referee Ricardo De Burgos Bengoetxea as he was leaving the field.
Oct. 23, 2017 –
Wins FIFA's Best Men's Player award for the second year in a row.
December 7, 2017:
Claims his fifth Ballon d'Or, equaling the record set by arch rival Lionel Messi.
July 10, 2018 -
Leaves Real Madrid to join reigning Serie A champions Juventus, based in Turin, Italy, on a four-year contract and $117 million transfer fee.
September 27, 2018:
Kathryn Mayorga files a lawsuit in Clark County, Nevada, accusing Ronaldo of raping her in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009. She seeks to void a settlement and nondisclosure agreement that says Ronaldo and her companions forced her to sign.
Ronaldo's legal team denied the allegations.
January 10, 2019:
Las Vegas Police spokeswoman Officer Laura Meltzer confirms that in the course of investigating a rape allegation against Ronaldo, they sent a warrant to authorities in Italy requesting a sample of his DNA .
January 22, 2019:
Ronaldo agrees to settle his tax fraud case with Spanish authorities by paying a $21.6 million fine and accepting a 23-month suspended prison sentence.
Under Spanish law, first-time offenders can avoid prison time if the sentence is less than two years.
April 20, 2019: Juventus defeat Fiorentina 2-1 to claim the Italian Serie A championship title. Ronaldo becomes the first player to win titles in the Premier League (with Manchester United), La Liga (with Real Madrid) and Serie A (with Juventus).
May 8, 2019:
Mayorga voluntarily dismisses the lawsuit filed in Clark County, Nevada, accusing Ronaldo of rape.
Mayorga's attorney, Larissa Drohobyczer, told CNN that "the state case was dismissed by us because we filed the same claims in federal court because of the federal court's rules on the care of aliens, basically we just switched places, but the claims remain."
July 22, 2019 -
The Clark County District Attorney's office says Cristiano Ronaldo will not face sexual assault charges in Las Vegas.
The office says the allegations, which were first made in 2009, cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
August 16, 2019 -
Federal court documents reveal that following Mayorga's 2009 rape allegation, Ronaldo paid Mayorga $375,000 in a settlement and confidentiality agreement.
Mayorga is asking the court to invalidate the agreement on the grounds that Ronaldo and his legal team took advantage of his fragile emotional state to force her to sign it.
May 2020 –
Ranked #2 on Forbes' annual list of the world's highest-paid athletes, with estimated earnings of $105 million.
September 8, 2020 –
Scores his 100th international goal in Portugal's Nations League match against Sweden, becoming only the second man in history to reach the milestone.
October 13, 2020:
Tested positive for coronavirus, according to a statement from the Portuguese Football Federation.
1 September 2021 –
Breaks the all-time record for men's international goalscorers after scoring twice against Ireland in World Cup Group A qualifier in Almancil, Portugal.
Oct. 6, 2021:
A federal judge recommends that the rape case against Cristiano Ronaldo be dismissed because Mayorga's attorneys improperly obtained and used information from leaked documents.
12 March 2022 –
Scores 806th career goal against Tottenham, breaking FIFA's all-time record for most goals in competitive matches in men's football history.
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