Ronaldo

Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima , ordinarily called Ronaldo is a Brazilian retired skilled athlete who competes as a striker. Popularly dubbed O Fenômeno (“The Phenomenon”), he’s widely thought of one amongst the best soccer players of all time. In his prime, he was illustrious for his propulsion at speed, feints, and clinical finishing. At his best within the Nineteen Nineties, Ronaldo marked at club level for Cruzeiro, PSV, Barcelona, and Inter Milan. His moves to Spain and Italy created him only the second player, once Diego Maradona, to interrupt the globe transfer record double, all before his twenty-first birthday. By 23, he had scored over two hundred goals for club and country. once virtually 3 years of inactivity thanks to serious knee injuries and healing, Ronaldo joined Real Madrid in 2002, that was followed by spells at A.C. Milan and Corinthians.

Ronaldo won the FIFA World Player of the Year in 1996, 1997 and 2002, the Ballon d’Or in 1997 and 2002, and also the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year in 1998. He was La Liga Best Foreign Player in 1997, once he additionally won the EU Golden Boot once grading thirty-four goals in La Liga, and he was named Serie A athlete of the Year in 1998. one amongst the foremost marketable sportsmen within the world, the primary Nike Mercurial boots–R9–were commissioned for Ronaldo in 1998. He was named within the FIFA a hundred list of the best living players compiled in 2004 by Pelé and was inducted into the Brazilian soccer repository Hall of Fame and the Italian soccer Hall of Fame.

Ronaldo competes for Brazil in 98 matches, grading 62 goals, and is that the second-highest goalscorer for his national team, trailing solely Pelé. At age 17, Ronaldo was the youngest member of the Brazilian squad that won the 1994 FIFA World Cup. At the 1998 FIFA World Cup, he received the Golden Ball for the player of the tournament, serving to Brazil reach the ultimate wherever he suffered a convulsive work hours before the defeat to France. He won a second World Cup in 2002 wherever he marked during a front 3 with Ronaldinho and Rivaldo. Ronaldo scored double within the final and received the Golden Boot because of the tournament’s prime goalscorer. At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo scored his 15th World Cup goal, that was a World Cup record at the time. He additionally won the Copa América in 1997, wherever he was player of the tournament, and 1999, wherever he was prime goalscorer.

Having suffered additional injuries, Ronaldo retired from the football game in 2011. As a multi-functional striker who brought a new dimension to the position, he has been the outstanding influence for a generation of strikers that have followed. Post-retirement, Ronaldo has continued his work as a UN Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador, a grip to that he was appointed in 2000. He served as an envoy for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Ronaldo became the bulk owner of La Liga club Real Valladolid in Sep 2018 once buying 51 of the club’s shares