Cristiano ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, more commonly known as Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese international footballer born in Funchal February 5, 1985. He currently plays as a striker for Real Madrid.
Born into a poor family, Cristiano Ronaldo joined his first football club to his 10 years at FC Andorinha in 1995. He then joined the club CD Nacional and SC Portugal. Sporting integrates it into the occupational group and was noticed by Manchester United, the club he joined in 2003. With Manchester, he won the English league and the Champions League. It is crowned Golden Ball in 2008 and finished second at the 2007 and 2009 and is also elected, 12 January 2009, the best FIFA footballer of the year 2008 and remains second in 2009 behind Argentina's Lionel Messi .
He is also the most expensive player in football history with a transfer of 94 million negotiated between Manchester United and Real Madrid. His qualities as a technician, his many strokes of genius, and its top speed (racing 33.6 km / h, making it the fastest player in the world according to a German study published in 2009) led to many observers to consider him one of the best players in the world [5].
A statue was raised by the representative in Madrid [6], not to the Santiago Bernabeu stadium but on the plaza Ramales of the Spanish capital. This sculpture gray over ten meters high the Portuguese player was erected by Nike, the sponsor of the star of the club merengue.