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Soccer is the worlds most popular sport, and the greatest player of the current generation has been the other-worldly Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal. Overcoming a heart problem as a teenager, Ronaldo set scoring records while playing for powerhouses Manchester United in the British Premier League and Real Madrid in Spains La Liga, won numerous major titles, and was named the worlds best player two times. Off the field he has been cited for his generosity as the most charitable athlete, making him also a star in life. This biography will inspire young readers.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Doyle, Brian, author.
Title: Cristiano Ronaldo : World-Beater / Brian Doyle.
Description: New York : Cavendish Square Publishing, 2018. | Series: At the
Top of Their Game | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016057404 (print) | LCCN 2017000849 (ebook) | ISBN 9781502628343 (library bound) | ISBN 9781502628398 (E-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Ronaldo, Cristiano, 1985---Juvenile literature. | Soccer players--Portugal--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Classification: LCC GV942.7.R626 D69 2018 (print) | LCC GV942.7.R626 (ebook)
| DDC 796.334092 [B] --dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016057404
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At the Top of Their Game
Contents
Ronaldo scores his second goal against the Netherlands in the 2012 Euro Cup, a tournament he would go on to win four years later, marking perhaps his greatest achievement.
Introduction
Great and Good
S ince early in the twenty-first century, Cristiano Ronaldo has been a global soccer superstar. He is one of only twenty-seven players in soccer history to score more than five hundred career goals and is widely viewed as the greatest soccer player in the world at the start of 2017. Ronaldo, whose full name is Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, has won almost every award available in the game. He was given the name Ronaldo by his father in honor of his fathers favorite actor, Ronald Reagan.
Ronaldo plays for , the top soccer league in Spain. Real Madrid won a La Liga championship in 2012 and was on pace for another in 2017 at the time of this writing. Ronaldo has been the leagues top scorer three times. He signed an extension to his contract with Real Madrid in 2013 to remain with the team through 2020, and this contract made him the highest-paid athlete in the world to that point.
He previously won three championships in the from 2003 to 2009. The English Premier League is the best league in the United Kingdom, and Manchester United is one of the most recognizable teams in the league, largely due to its dominance during Ronaldos time there.
Ronaldo received the Ballon dOr in 2014, the award given out for the best player in the world. He has been given the honor four times.
In 2008, he received the and Antoine Griezmann in voting announced in January 2017. That award is voted on by members of the national teams of all 211 of FIFAs member nations.
, Real Madrids rival.
In 2016, Cristiano Ronaldos home country of Portugal won the , an event that happens every four years and consists of the top teams from Europe. Ronaldo scored the winning penalty kick after a quiet game against France.
UEFA runs the , which consists of the top teams from Europes best leagues, including La Liga and the English Premier League. Ronaldos own Real Madrid has won the Champions League twice in his time, in 2014 and in 2016. He also notched a victory with Manchester United in 2008 and was on the runner-up team in 2009.
More importantly, Ronaldo donated his $675,000 bonuses for winning the 2016 Champions league to charity. Ronaldo is known for being a very giving person and was in fact recognized in 2015 as the worlds most charitable athlete by Athletes Gone Good.
Cristiano Ronaldo has had an astounding career and life so far. He has proven himself one of the greatest to ever play the game in both league and international play. His passion for the sport is unmatched, and his love for people is shown through his actions off of the field.
Cristiano Ronaldo has come a long way since his days as a youth playing on the field on Madeira.
Chapter 1
Rough Start
C ristiano Ronaldo calls Portugal his home. Portugal is a small country. Its eastern and northern borders connect to Spain. The Atlantic Ocean lies to the west and the south. While today, Portugal is not particularly powerful or influential, it was one of the strongest and most important European countries for several hundred years dating back to the 1400s. A seafaring people, the Portuguese made their way around the world at the same time that countries like Spain, Italy, and England were doing the same. Portuguese native Ferdinand Magellan led the first voyage to sail around the globe, and Portugals influence is alive today in countries like Brazil, where people speak Portuguese as a native language. Magellan himself would not survive the voyage, but his crew did return home.
Naming conventions in Portuguese differs from those in English and other similar languages. As mentioned earlier, Ronaldos full name is Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro. In Portuguese, people have one or two first names, in this case, Cristiano and Ronaldo, and usually two or three last names that are family names. For Ronaldo, Santos and Aveiro are family names from his mother and his father. Think of it as someone you may know who has a hyphenated last name. The dos, in Ronaldos name is Portuguese for from, implying who he comes from (Santos and Aveiro). Many come to be known by only one or two of the names, and this is especially common in Brazilian Portuguese.
A view from above of the beautiful port city of Funchal on Madeira, where Ronaldo spent his youth.
A little over 500 miles (804 kilometers) off of the main coastline of Portugal is an archipelago, or a series of small islands, called . Madeira was found by Portuguese explorers in 1419 and settled shortly afterward. The island was considered to be the first discovery during what was known as the Portuguese Age of Discovery, which lasted from 1415 to 1542. The legend in Portugal at the time was that a shipwreck, carrying two famous lovers who were trying to escape England during the rule of a violent king, occurred on Madeira Island.
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