Cristiano Ronaldo

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[[born 5 February 1985 in Funchal, Madeira), is a Portuguese footballer who plays for English Premier League club Manchester United and the Portuguese national team. In addition to winning the 2007-08 UEFA Champions League, he is a winner of the 2007 English PFA Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year awards]

[font=Arial]Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro and José Dinis Aveiro. His second given name, "Ronaldo," was chosen after then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who was his father's favourite actor at the time. He has one older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Liliana Cátia.

Ronaldo's favourite boyhood team was SL Benfica. At the age of eight, he played for amateur team C.F. Andorinha, where his father was the kit man. In 1995, Ronaldo signed with local club CD Nacional after city rival CS Marítimo missed a crucial meeting with Rui Santos, Ronaldo's manager at Andorinha. After a title-winning campaign at Nacional, Ronaldo went on a three-day trial with Sporting Portugal, who
subsequently signed him for an undisclosed sum
Ronaldo became Manchester United's first-ever Portuguese player when he signed for £12.24 million after the 2002-03 season. He requested the number 28 (his number at Sporting), as he did not want the pressure of living up to the expectation linked to the number 7 shirt, which had previously been worn by team legends such as George Best, Bryan Robson, Eric Cantona, and David Beckham

.One day after his twenty-second birthday, Ronaldo captained Portugal for the first time in a friendly against Brazil on 6 February 2007. This move was in honour of Portuguese Football Federation president Carlos Silva