The biggest brand of football: Who is Cristiano Ronaldo?

His hairstyle, the underwear brand he founded, the perfumes bearing his name, the crampons he uses, and many more… This is not just practicing sports, it's an extremely successful career management. For this, he works as hard as anyone else. He is very attentive to what he eats, drinks and lives.

So much so that he recently became the first person to reach 500 million followers on Instagram. Every single post, every item he traffics on Instagram is gold.

Although his body age is 19, he is actually 35 years old and according to other football players, this is called his age before retirement.

Who is Cristiano Ronaldo?

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born on February 5, 1985, in Madeira, Portugal.

Ronaldo, who started playing football at a very young age, gave the name "Ronaldo" because his father was a Ronald Reagan fan. Ronaldo has a total of 3 siblings, 1 of which is male, named Hugo, Elma, and Liliana Caita. Ronaldo's origins date back to Cape de Verde, off the coast of Portugal.

Born into a dark Catholic family, Ronaldo is a very emotional and religious personality. Ronaldo, who was discovered by his mother when he was 8 years old, started playing football at a young age. Ronaldo, who started playing in Andorinha as an amateur when he was 8 years old, signed for the Nacional team in 1995 when he was 10 years old.

Due to his performance here, Ronaldo, who was sent to the Sporting Lisbon infrastructure for three days to try, took advantage of this opportunity and thus signed Sporting Lisbon. While struggling with Ronalda Sporting Lisbon's infrastructure, he had a heart problem and even stopped playing football due to his heartbeat being too fast. However, thanks to the positive report given by Sporting Lisbon doctors, it was determined that he did not have any obstacles to playing football.

Joining the infrastructure of Sporting Lisbon, Ronaldo has worked at many levels here. Cristiano Ronaldo, who was promoted to the first team in 2002, proved to the whole of Portugal that he is a promising football player by shaking Moreirense nets twice in his first match. Ronaldo, who started to wear the jersey of the Portugal U17 national team during this period, was included in the watch list by the observers of Barcelona and Manchester United.

Wenger rejected Ronaldo, who was proposed to Arsene Wenger in 2002, saying, "We don't need that position." Ronaldo, whose name was also mentioned with Liverpool and Barcelona in this period, could not be transferred due to the depletion of the necessary cash as a result of Quaresma's transfer to Barcelona. After finding the offer of 15 million euros in Liverpool excessive, Ronaldo remained at Sporting Lisbon.

Ronaldo, whose name was mentioned by many clubs in 2002, could not be transferred to any club for various reasons and continued to play in Sporting Lisbon for another year. In July 2003, Sporting Lisbon and Manchester United faced each other for the opening of Estadio Jose Alvalade Stadium and Sporting left the match with a 3-1 victory. Cristiano Ronaldo, who managed to impress Alex Ferguson with the football he played in this match, transferred to Manchester United for 12.24 million pounds that month. Manchester United, who sent Beckham to Real Madrid, gave Cristiano Ronaldo the number 7 jersey to motivate him better, even though he said he wanted to wear the number 28 jersey.

In his first season, Ronaldo appeared in 29 Premier League games and scored 4 goals. The next season, Cristiano Ronaldo, who took part in 33 league games, was able to score 5 goals. Developing his game with the 2005/06 season, Ronalda has shown success in airing the nets 9 times this season. In the next 3 seasons, Cristiano Ronaldo, who attracted the attention of the whole world by scoring 66 goals, won the UEFA Champions League championship with Manchester United in 2008. The next year, the final played in Rome with Barcelona was lost 2-0 and Ronaldo could not remain indifferent to the offer of 94 million euros from Real Madrid.

Ronaldo, who was officially transferred to Real Madrid in the summer of 2009, wore the number 9 jersey in his first season here. Ronaldo played 29 league games and scored 26 goals. Ronaldo, who turned into another football talent after Jose Mourinho became the head of Real Madrid in the 2010/11 season, scored 40 in total in La Liga and became the football player who scored the most goals after Messi, who reached 50 goals that season. Cristiano Ronaldo, who played a total of 197 La Liga games under the Real Madrid jersey, scored 219 goals and achieved an extraordinary goal average.

In addition, Ronaldo, who played 60 European Cup matches during this period, scored 60 goals in total in Europe, becoming one of the two football players who scored the most goals in the UEFA Champions League of all time. Ronaldo, who won the league championship only once during his time in Real Madrid, has been successful in winning the UEFA Champions League once. At the same time, he continued the fierce competition with his biggest rival, Messi, by adding this award two more times to the Europe's best football player award he won in 2008.

On 10 July 2018, he officially transferred from Real Madrid to Juventus for a transfer fee of € 100 million.

On 27 August 2021, Juventus coach Allegri stated that Ronaldo had told him that he "doesn't want to play for this team anymore and wants to leave the club immediately".

He transferred to Manchester United on 27 August 2021 and signed a 2+1 year contract.

He made his second Manchester United debut against Newcastle United on 11 September 2021. Ronaldo scored the first 2 goals of Manchester United, who won the match 4-1.

Expressing that he wanted to leave Manchester United in the middle of 2022, Ronaldo could not be transferred to a team that would compete in the UEFA Champions League during the transfer period and had to play in the UEFA Europa League for the first time after 2002.

National team career

Cristiano Ronaldo has managed to go down in Portuguese football history. However, he did not win any trophies with the Portuguese national team.

Being the captain of the Portugal national team since 2008, Ronaldo played his first international match against Kazakhstan in August 2003, the match ended with Portugal's victory 1-0.

Personal life

Ronaldo wrote his autobiography, Moments, in 2007. Released on December 15, 2007. In addition, in the same year, his DVD titled The Boy Who Had A Dream, in which he talked about his rise in Manchester United club, as well as his friends and family, and his life and career on October 27, 2008, and compared him with famous football players who wore the number 7 jersey in Manchester United. The DVD titled The Story has been released.