Subject: English Form 3 Topic: Famous Personalities Prepared by: Tun Ainul Yaqin bin Azmel

1. CRISTIANO RONALDO
FOOTBALL PLAYER

3. CRISTIANO RONALDO
• Cristiano Ronaldo born in 5 February 1985,known as Cristiano Ronaldo,is aPortuguese
professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Portugal national
team. He is a forward and serves as captain for Portugal. By the age of 22, Ronaldo had
received Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations. The following year,
in 2008, he won his first Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards. He
followed this up by winning the FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2013 and 2014. In September 2015,
Ronaldo scored his 500th senior career goal for club and country. Often ranked as the
best player in the world and rated by some in the sport as the greatest of all time, Ronaldo
is the first Portuguese footballer to win three FIFA/Ballons d'Or, and the first player to
win four European Golden Shoe awards.

4. Early Life
• Ronaldo was born in Santo António, a neighbourhood of Funchal, Madeira,
the youngest child of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro, a cook, and José
Dinis Aveiro, a municipal gardener.His second given name, "Ronaldo", was
chosen after then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who was his father's
favourite actor.He has one older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma
and Liliana Cátia.His great-grandmother Isabel da Piedade was from Cape
Verde.

5. Club Career
• 1) Sporting CP
• 2) Manchester United
• 3) Real Madrid

6. Manchester United
• 2003-04: Adapting to England
• 2004-06: Developing years
• 2006-07: First Premier League title
• 2007-08: Champions League success
• 2008-09: World Player of the Year and final season

7. Real Madrid
• 2009-10: Ariiving in Spain
• 2010-11: Breaks La Liga seasons goalscoring record
• 2011-12: First La Liga title
• 2012-13: Fastest to reach 200 goals for Madrid
• 2013-14: Champions League season goalscoring record

8. International Career
• Cristiano started his international youth career in 2001 being part of the
under-15 Portugal team, amassing 34 youth caps and scoring 18 goals
overall.Apart from the under-15 team, Ronaldo also represented the under-
17, under-20, under-21, and the under-23 national sides, scoring for each
team.Ronaldo earned his first senior cap for Portugal in a 1–0 victory against
Kazakhstan on 20 August 2003.

9. 2004-05: Early success
• Ronaldo was called up for Euro 2004, scoring his first international goal in a 2–1
group stage loss to eventual champions Greece and scoring again in a 2–1 semi-
final win over the Netherlands.He was featured in the UEFA Euro All-Star Team
of this competition, providing two assists, and scoring two goals.
Ronaldo also represented Portugal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, scoring a goal
in the tournament, although the Portuguese Olympic football squad was eliminated
in the first round, finishing bottom of their group with three points after 4–2
defeats to eventual semi-finalists Iraq and quarter-finalists Costa Rica.

10. 2006-07: World Cup and first captaincy stint
• Ronaldo was the second-highest scorer in the 2006 FIFA World Cup
qualification in the European zone with seven goals,and scored his first
World Cup goal against Iran (2–0) with a penalty kick in Portugal's second
match in the group stage.

11. 2008–10: Permanent captaincy
• Ronaldo scored eight goals in Portugal's UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying
campaign,behind Poland's Ebi Smolarek, but finished with only one goal in
the tournament. When Portugal's squad for the tournament was announced,
Ronaldo was given the number 7 shirt for the first time in a major
tournament.He was named man of the match in the group match against the
Czech Republic, in which Portugal won 3–1.Portugal were eliminated in the
quarter-finals with a 3–2 loss against eventual finalists Germany.

12. 2011–13: Individual and Euro success
• Ronaldo scored seven goals in Portugal's UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying campaign,
including two strikes against Bosnia in the play-offs for the tournament, and
finished behind Germany's Miroslav Klose and the Netherlands' Klaas-Jan
Huntelaar (not including the play-offs round). Portugal were drawn in Group B
with Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, which was widely referred to as the
"group of death" of the tournament.In an interview with Kicker Magazine,
Ronaldo stated that: "I will only be fully content with my career when I have
lifted a trophy with Portugal.

13. 2014: World Cup and Portugal's record
goalscorer
• On 17 October 2012, Ronaldo won his 100th cap for the Portugal national team in
a World Cup qualification match against Northern Ireland (1–1) at Porto's Estádio
do Dragão. He became the third youngest European ever to reach that figure in the
process, after Germany's Lukas Podolski and Estonia's Kristen Viikmäe. On 14
August 2013, Ronaldo scored his 40th goal for Portugal in a 1–1 friendly draw
against the Netherlands.On 6 September 2013, Ronaldo netted his first international
hat-trick in a 15-minute spell in the second half at Windsor Park against Northern
Ireland (4–2) in a World Cup qualification match to become Portugal's second-
highest scorer ahead of Eusébio. With his goals against Northern Ireland, Ronaldo
also established a personal record, since it was the first time that he scored in three
consecutive matches with Portugal.