Ronaldo story
Full name
Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima
Jobs
Footballer
Date of Birth
1976 - 09-18 (44 years old)
Nationality
Brazilian
place of birth
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Ronaldo is a Brazilian soccer player who started his career in Brazil and then moved to Europe, he played with Eindhoven, then Barcelona, and then moved to Inter Milan, Italy, at a rate of goal-scoring goals per match. Won the title of the best player in the world three times.
About Ronaldo
Born in 1976 in Brazil, Ronaldo has made himself an unstoppable player in European teams since the mid-1990s, recovering from the disappointment that befell him at the 1998 World Cup Finals as well as a series of knee injuries to lead Brazil to the 2002 World Cup title. After a career full of achievements, transfers and injuries, Ronaldo retired in 2011 as one of the best soccer players in the world.
Ronaldo's beginnings
Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima was born in Itagua - Brazil on September 18, 1976, his parents Nilio Nazario de Lima and Sonia dos Santos Barrata separated at the age of eleven, and after a short period Ronaldo left school to pursue a football career >
Ronaldo joined Social Ramos at the age of twelve, then moved to São Cristóvão, where he was discovered by Reinaldo Pitta, who later became his agent alongside Alexander Martins, and the two helped arrange his sale to Cruzeiro. Cruzeiro is the professional club in Belo Horizonte.
Ronaldo's achievements
Ronaldo's remarkable goal-scoring abilities showed with Cruzeiro's team, and he helped the team win its first title in the Brazilian Cup in 1993. At the age of seventeen, he was selected in the Brazilian national team's first squad to participate in the 1994 World Cup in the United States, but he watched His country wins the World Cup while on the bench.
He moved to the Dutch club Eindhoven in 1994, and the rate of goal scoring with the Dutch club was close to the goal in every match in the matches that brought him together with the best European competitors. He spent two years with Eindhoven and then moved to the Spanish team Barcelona for one year and then moved to Inter Milan, Italy, where He played for four seasons, during the previous period with the three teams he won the title of best player in the world twice and helped the Barcelona teams win the Spanish Super Cup and PSV Eindhoven to win the Dutch Super Cup.
When Ronaldo was at the peak of his performance, he combined speed and strength that could not be matched and countered, in addition to that he had the ability to overtake the defenders with great agility by maneuvering and escaping from their attacks to take the ball and then launching very quickly away from them, in addition to the greatness and confidence that he was He felt that he hated hard exercises and exercises, which had a role in weakening his position.
In the 1998 World Cup in France, expectations were that Ronaldo and his teammates would give a lot, at a time when he was named the winner of the Ballon d'Or as the best player in the tournament, the tournament ended badly when he suffered a seizure before the final match, which caused his team to lose by a score of 3- 0 in favor of the owners of the land the French national team, and the biggest setback was when he suffered a torn tendon in the knee in November 1999 and injured again in the knee after five months, which made him stop playing for nearly two years.
Ronaldo returned strongly in the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, where he scored eight goals in the tournament, achieving with his country the fifth title in addition to the title of the Golden Boot as the best scorer in the tournament, Ronaldo moved to Real Madrid in the fall of the same year and won his third title as the best player in the world That year before he led his new team to the La Liga title (La Liga) and the Spanish Super Cup in 2003.
He returned to appear with the Brazil national team in the World Cup in 2006, and although Brazil went out in the quarter-finals of the tournament against France, Ronaldo scored three goals, bringing his total goals in the World Cup 15 and leading the scoring charts in the World Cup.
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Ronaldo moved to AC Milan in 2007, but he suffered a serious knee injury in 2008 and his contract with the club was not renewed after that season. The Brazilian star returned to his home country in 2009 to play with Corinthians, where he helped the team win the Campionato Paulista League title Campeonato Paulista and the Brazilian Cup that year before announcing his retirement and his retirement in February 2011.
Ronaldo is considered one of the best soccer players in the history of football, and in 2004 he was chosen by FIFA in the list of the 100 best players alive alongside the Brazilian legend Pele, and in 2010 Goals.Com considered him the player of the decade.
He was criticized for not training as a professional athlete and champion, Ronald chose for himself an active career after his retirement, the 9ine sports marketing agency, and he joined the organizing committee for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and the Olympic Games in 2016, thus ensuring that he will remain an influential figure in Brazilian and international football For years.
Ronaldo's personal life
During 1997 he was in a relationship with model Susanna Werner, they did not marry, but their relationship lasted until 1999. In April of 1999 Ronaldo married Brazilian footballer Milene Domingues, who was pregnant with their first son, and their marriage lasted for four years. As for Ronaldo's religion, beliefs and indigenous sect, he was born into a Catholic, Christian family
Fast facts on Ronaldo
Before reaching the age of 19, he won the Dutch Cup and the Johan Cruyff Cup with Eindhoven, where he scored 42 goals from 46 matches and then moved to Barcelona for one season, during which he scored 34 out of 37 games and during that period he had won the Golden Ball and the title of the best player in the world. Twice, this is what no player can do, so he was called the phenomenon.
He is the only player to top scorer and top scorer in the Spanish League, with both Barcelona in 1996 and Real Madrid in 2003.
Ronaldo is still the youngest player at the age of 18 to reach 30 goals in one season in the Dutch league.