Ronaldo was named after former US
President, Ronald Reagan, who was greatly
admired by Ronaldo's father. His full name
is Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro.
2. Ronaldo's father, Jose Dinis Aveiro,
passed away at the age of 52 due to
alcoholism. As a result, Ronaldo does not
drink alcohol because drinking it reminds
him of the death of his father.
3. Ronaldo played his first game for Sporting
Lisbon in the Portugese Super League when
he was just 17 years old and soon became
one of the most admired young football
players in the world. It was a pre-season
game between Sporting and United that
Ronaldo caught the eye of Manchester
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who was
quick to sign him and offer him the No.7
shirt.
4. As a teenager, he would be in the gym
training using weights on either foot, and
then dribbling with the ball. Ronaldo thought
training with weights would improve his
game techniques because without weights,
he would be even faster.
5. Ronaldo recently signed a lucrative
contract with Real Madrid, making him the
highest paid footballer in the world. But
there's a generous side to the Portugese
that very few people know about. Ronaldo
paid for the cancer treatment of a nine-year-
old boy, and regularly donates blood, which
is the reason he does not have tattoos.
6. Ronaldo's freekick speed is around 130
kilometers an hour, which means 31.1
meters per second, more than four times of
Apollo 11 rocket's launching speed which
was
7.3 meters per second. Mind-blowing right?
7. Ronaldo is slim but do you know his body
has only 10% fat?? Normal catwalk models
are known to have 13.8% fat. Amazing.
8. Ronaldo lifts around 23,055 kg of weight
during a training session, which is a total of
16 Toyota Prius cars. The guy just
continues to amaze us.
9. According to Castrol's analysis, when
Cristiano Ronaldo jumps, he generates five
times more power than a Cheetah jumps in
a full flight. United fans, remember that
towering header at the Bernabeu in February
this year?
10. Back to his early days, when Cristiano
Ronaldo was a kid, he once hit a teacher
with a chair because she made fun of his
Madeiran accent. Quite the naughty kid
right?
11. Cristiano Ronaldo had gone through a
heart operation when he was just 15 years
old. Doctors diagnosed and found a heart
problem which threatened his football
career. However, he went through laser
surgery which went through successfully
and cured his problem.
12. This is undoubtedly the most amazing
story of Cristiano Ronaldo and gives us an
insight on how he is really like as a person.
Cristiano Ronaldo : "I have to thank my
friend Albert Fantrau for my success. We
played together for a youth club. When
people from Sporting (Lisbon) arrived, they
told us that whoever scored more goals
would be accepted to their Academy." "We
won that game 3-0, I scored the first goal,
the Albert scored a header, and the third
was a goal that impressed everyone. Albert
went to one on one with the goalkeeper. I
was running next to him, he went round the
keeper, all he needed to do was just to get
the ball into the empty net. But, he passed it
to me and I scored. I was accepted to the
Academy. After the match, I approached him
and asked him "why" and he answered;
"You're better than me". Several years later,
the journalist went to Albert's house and
asked whether the story was true. He
confirmed. He also said that his career as a
football player finished after that match and
he is now unemployed. "But where did you
get such a gorgeous house, a car? You
seemed to be a rich person. You also
maintain your family ... .. Where is all this
from?." Albert proudly replied; it's from
Cristiano. source WWW.2batista.wapka. mobi