Biography Portugal's best and Manchester United's darling midfielder, Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was brought into this world on February 5, 1985 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. His mother Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro and father Jose Dinis Aveiro had four children. His parents decided to name this future famous footballer after someone that you wouldn't think a Portuguese family would normally consider. He was named after the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. A passionate desire to play on the field and an undying love for football, Cristiano's interest in the great sport of football started when he was just three years old. When Cristiano was around ten or so, word of his spectacular skills on the field was …show more content…
To Cristiano's fortune Manchester United was in dire need of a midfielder after superstar David Beckhman left to play for Real Madrid. The void created by Beckham was huge and Manchester United had to fill it up with a superstar who could take them to the promised land. After a lot of speculation and drama surrounding the replacement, Manchester United finally signed Cristiano Ronaldo after his stint with Sporting CP ended in 2003.From the very day Cristiano signed with Manchester United, his football career took off and hasn't slowed since. In the same year he also made his debut for the national team of Portugal playing in a match against Kazakhstan. In the following year, Ronaldo put up one of his best performances. In the World Cup qualifying games the superstar midfielder scored 7 goals and made his presence felt in the Portuguese national team. Only a year later in 2005, Cristiano Ronaldo netted 11 goals for his country in 25 appearances. Although the up and coming superstar was making waves in the international football stage, controversy hit in the 2006 World Cup and it involved someone that was closely linked to him at his club Manchester United. Manchester United teammate of Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, striker for the English squad received a red card in a very important match, England versus Portugal in the World Cup
Tiger Woods was born with the name Eldrick Woods on December 30, 1975, in Orlando, Florida. Early on, Tiger’s parents, Earl and Kultilda Woods, introduced their only child to the sport he has come to dominate, giving him a sawed-off putter to practice with as soon as he could stand up on his own. At the age of 8, he won the first of six Optimist International Junior World Titles. After perhaps the most remarkable amateur career ever—he won the U.S. Junior Amateur Championships in 1991, 1992, and 1993, and the U.S. Amateur title in 1994, 1995, and 1996—and two years at Stanford University, where he won the NCAA title, Woods turned pro in the summer of 1996.
been well recorded, and it sometimes affects his game too much.” Ronaldo sometimes argues with players and the referee that he ends up getting sent off early with either two yellow cards or a straight red card affecting his team and teammates with one less player on the field against a full eleven man squad. I see how people create stereotypes about professional soccer players because i watch almost every soccer game of Cristiano Ronaldo's soccer team and Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s soccer team both Real madrid and Paris Saint Germain. When watching the soccer games of Real Madrid and Paris Saint Germain you could see where people create these stereotypes but most of the time professional players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic play
Cristiano Ronaldo scores far more goals with his head, not afraid to go in where it hurts. He manages to apply great power to his headers and undoubtly is always going to be more effective in the air than Messi. This is due to the fact that Ronaldo stands at 6'1" while Lionel Messi stands at 5'6 ½". Messi scored the memorable second goal against Manchester United, one of England's best teams, in the 2009 Champions league final with his head. But that was the exception to the rule. Most of "La Pulga Atomica’s" (The Atomic Flea) goals come from his left foot. Lionel Messi has become a lethal intruder in the goalkeeper's area. If someone were to tell you that they've seen him gently push in 40 goals with one-touch kicks inside the goalkeeper's area the past two years, they wouldn't be exaggerating. When the play needs collected finishing, Lionel is right there to lightly push it home every time.
I grew up watching and playing soccer. My favorite player was Andriy Shevchenko, and he came to my city to play champions league game
The match began with a classy offload from Farah catching out the defence and forcing an eventual penalty.
Cristiano Ronaldo is undoubtedly one of the greatest soccer players to ever step foot on a pitch. Throughout his career, he has managed to set records and win virtually every individual and team award possible with the exception of the World Cup. Ronaldo has won the FIFA Player of the Year Award (Ballon D’or) 3 times and is very likely to be on his way to a 4th come this January. What separates Cristiano from the rest of the world is his drive. He has always believed that he is the best and is never satisfied with what he has already accomplished. The main reason however, that I chose to write about Cristiano Ronaldo is because we have something in common. He was diagnosed with a heart problem at the age of 15 which threatened his
In 1958, Pele set a record by scoring 58 goals Brazilian championship. In other matches of the same year he scored 29 in other tournaments. To make his goals total by year impressive 87 goals at the age of seventeen. In 1959, he was also consistently scoring goals. Where he was again the world's top scorer in all games with 127 goals. This is an incredible number of goals of the player has not completed eighteen years of age. Fans Pele were growing dramatically and they were encouraging him constantly and were always boasted Pele. According to one of the Pele's fans said, "He takes off like a rocket, kicks like a cannon, dribbles like the devil, and scores like an angel" (Pele the king of soccer, p.40). Sometimes the players who were playing against Pele's team resort to illegitimate ways to stop Pele on the field of soccer or doing anything displease him and get it out of the atmosphere of the game. This is the only way to stop Pele and preventing him from scoring goals. Pele played his last match with Santos on October 2, 1974. Pele has played in his career in 1253 games and he had scored 1220 goals. It is the largest number of goals that have not been broken yet. In addition, Pele is the historical scorer for Brazil with 77 goals. This number of goals did not break yet
Edson Arantes de Nascimento (otherwise known as Pele), was born into a family in poverty in Brazil on September 23, 1940. The reason I chose to do Pele is because he is a great inspiration because of everything he has done in his life. His father was a soccer player. Pele’s first soccer ball was a sock full rags and he and his friends would boot it around all day. He dropped out of school in the 4th grade because the school master had caught him playing soccer during the school day.
Since 2008 Ronaldo has won 3 Ballon d’Ors to Messi’s 5. Messi and Ronaldo face each other twice a year in El Clasico which is one of the world's most viewed sporting
In 2003, Neymar was invested by Santos FC. In 2009, he played his first game with Santos, a soccer team. He finished his first season with them in 2010 with 14 goals in 28 games. In 2011, the manager
Lionel Messi’s childhood was very rough. He grew up in Argentina and was very poor. He also had a growth hormone deficiency. Messi and his family could not pay for the treatments that Messi needed. This is where Lionel Messi gets his motivation to help poor children. Messi focuses most of his charity work on poor children that grew up just like he did. He inspires the children to have hope and pux\sh through the tough times just like he did himself.
So when Messi became thirteen years old he was asked to join FC Barcelona's youth academy, La Masia and have his hormone treatment taken care of by the team. Messi's family decided it was a great oppertunity for him and the whole family. So moments after the offer, Messi's family picked up and moved across the Atlantic to settle down in Spain. Even though Messi was great from the start, months after he arrived at the academy the coaches and the staff faculty saw a vast improvement from Messi and he moved quickly through the junior system ranks. At the age of sixteen Messi made his first debut for Barcelona. And only only after one year into his professional career Messi put himself in the record books as the youngest player to ever score a goal for the franchise. And that same year Messi steered his national team (Argentina) to the title under-20 World Cup with two penalty goals for the win against Nigeria. Finally Messi grew up to be five foot and seven inches, wich is considered to be a normal height for a
On October 23 in Tres Coracoes Brazil, Edson Arantes do Nascimento known as “Pele” was born. Pele was living in the city of Bauru with his family when he was little but he grew up in poverty. His parents named him after Thomas Edison and was nicknamed “Dico”. Before he became a really good soccer player he started with a rolled up sock with rags stuffed in it. There is no origin with the name “pele”, his friends just started to call him that. Waldemar de Brito convinced his parents into letting him try out for the Santos professional soccer club when he was 15 years old.
Pelé made his debut for Santos in 1956, scoring one goal in a 7-1 friendly victory over Corinthians. When the 1957 season started, Pelé was given a starting place in the first team and, at the age of just 16, became the top scorer in the league. Just ten months after signing professionally, the teenager was called up to the Brazil national team. After the World Cup in 1962, wealthy European clubs offered massive fees to sign the young player, but the government of Brazil declared Pelé an "official national treasure" to prevent him from being transferred out of the country.[13]
In January 2013, Cristiano Ronaldo became Save the Children's new Global Artist Ambassador, in which he hopes to help fight child hunger and obesity. In March 2013, Ronaldo agreed to be the ambassador for The Mangrove Care Forum in Indonesia. Ronaldo became a United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador in 2000. Cristiano Ronaldo has donated €1.5 million to Palestinian children in Gaza, the Arabic version of the club’s Classico network reports, he also sold most of his sports shoes at a Real Madrid Foundation auction which was also dedicated to raising funds for schools in Gaza. Brazilian Ronaldo has also supported numerous Israeli and Palestinian children’s charities and conducted a tour of Israel and the West Bank. In support of the victims of the 2010 Madeira flood, Cristiano Ronaldo