How Cristiano Ronaldo Became One of the World's Top Footballers

Prior to winning two FIFA World Cups and amassing over 500 goals in his career, even before agreeing to a 64 million dollar contract with Nike, Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the top paid soccer players and here is a description of Ronaldo's life and career before he became well-known.

Cristiano Ronaldo was born on the Portuguese island of Madeira. At the age of eight, he started participating in the league. At 14, he stopped attending school after throwing a chair at a teacher. Then, his parents agreed that he should only concentrate on his football.

On February 5th, 1985, Cristiano Ronaldo Dos Santos Aviero was born. Ronaldo was his given name in honor of his father's favorite actor, Ronald Reagan. His father was a gardener and his mother a cook, so he was raised in a low-income family. 

Ronaldo, the youngest of four children, lived with his siblings in a small bedroom and shared everything with them. At eight, he started playing soccer at the neighborhood boys club known as Andorina, and from that point on, well, soccer basically absorbed him.

He didn't care about school or girlfriends; football was all he was interested in. All he wanted to do was kick the ball around outside. Ronaldo attracted Sporting's notice after only a few seasons of playing for Nacional, the Portuguese soccer academy. 

When he was 12 years old, he had to leave his friends and family behind and move to their native country after being signed by sporting. He suffered from severe homesickness for a while, but gradually, he pushed past it and turned his attention to football.He then began to completely blow everyone's minds.

Ronaldo's mother called him for a pretty serious talk when he was around 14 years old as the school had been complaining about how much trouble he was getting into. 

Recall the instance I mentioned where he hurled a chair at a teacher. He had actually done that because he thought she had treated him disrespectfully.He was expelled and forced to transfer to another school, but he wasn't turning in his assignments there either, in actual facts, he just didn't care about school. 

As a talented soccer player, his mother encouraged him to concentrate on the sport and leave school. Ronaldo succeeded in sports over the following three years, becoming the only player to participate in five divisions in a single season. 

Even a heart operation wouldn't be able to stop this youngster. He was diagnosed with racing heart syndrome when he was 15 years old, and at that time, he required surgery. He underwent surgery, and a few days later, a laser was used to cauterize the troublesome area. He was then released and able to resume pitch training.

At the age of 17, teams including Liverpool, Arsenal, Barcelona, and Manchester United were interested in signing Cristiano Ronaldo.

Ronaldo made a significant impression in a match between Sporting and United, defeating them three to one. The team was extremely impressed by this young boy's talent, charisma, charm, and football talents. After the game, they began begging their manager Alex Ferguson to look at him.

Cristiano Ronaldo was hence the first Portuguese footballer to play for Manchester United after a deal of more than $12 million was arranged.

When he initially started playing for Manchester United in 2003, he requested to wear the number 28 but Alex Ferguson refused, telling him that he would have to wear the number seven like the greats, such as David Beckham and Eric Cantona. 

Then, Ronaldo claimed that one of the factors contributing to his excellence was being compelled to wear the number 7. In essence, he claims that having the opportunity to stand in for some of history's greatest figures provided him added drive.

He immediately rose to the top of the squad within his first two years of playing professionally, earning him a reputation as one of the greatest. Alex Ferguson, his manager, continued by saying that he might even be among the all-time greats.

By 2007, he had established himself as a global sensation, taking home four of the PFA's top honors, including player of the year. After winning the silver ball at the FIFA World Cup, being voted FIFA World Player of the Year, and having multiple disagreements with the club, he stopped playing for Manchester United in 2009.

He next joined Real Madrid FC, where he inked a record-breaking six-year, 93 million euro contract, making him the second highest paid footballer after David Beckham. In 2013, he overtook Beckham in terms of salary.

The guy is a legend and has sat at the top as the best footballer in the world for over a decade.

I'd stop here as this article is about Ronaldo before he became famous.