The Story of Cristiano Ronaldo's Life

The Story of Cristiano Ronaldo's Life

According to many Cristiano Ronaldo Biography books, he was born in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, which is a small island off the western coast of the country. It is known that Cristiano Ronaldo was born on February 5, 1985. Maria Dolores dos Santos and José Dinis Aveiro are Ronaldo's parents. He was the youngest among the four siblings, he was named after the actor Regan Ronaldo. Maria Dolores dos Santos was a cook, and José Dinis Aveiro was a gardener and part-time kit man. His mother was Maria Dolores dos Santos. He had a brother and two sisters who were all older than him. Elma and Liliana Cátia, his two older sisters, shared the name Hugo for their brother. Despite his fame as a footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo's early years were fraught with financial and economic hardship. He was born into a poor family, and his father's alcoholicism is prominently mentioned in numerous Cristiano Ronaldo biographies. He was raised as a Christian Catholic. Ronaldo grew up in a tin-roofed house with a view of the sea and shared a room with his siblings. Ronaldo was introduced to football by his father, he was a manager of a boy club during that time. During his childhood, he played for the club Andorinha from 1992 to 1995, his father served as a kitman for this club. He then played for almost years for the Nacional. When Ronaldo was just 12 years old, Sporting CP signed him for £1,500 after a three-day trial in 1997. Following this deal, he moved from Madeira to Alcochete, which is near Lisbon, to join the Sporting youth football academy.

At the age of 14, he was expelled from the school for throwing a chair at the teacher. According to many Ronaldo biography books, he did it because the teacher had disrespected him. By this Ronaldo was a semi-professional football player. Despite his local fame, Ronaldo's life was fraught with difficulties, and his expulsion from school only exacerbated those difficulties.

Christiano Ronaldo was expelled for a year when he was diagnosed with tachyarrhythmia, also known as racing heart, in which the normal heart rate is greater than 100 beats per minute. Due to this medical condition, he was on the brink of leaving football. He underwent heart surgery where he was subjected to laser cauterization to lower his resting heart rate. The surgery was successful a few days after the surgery he went on to rejoin the football club.

In 2003 at the age of 16 Ronaldo signed the deal with Manchester United for over fourteen million dollars. In 2005 while playing for Manchester United his father died due to prolonged alcoholism and some other fatal complications. This was particularly hard for the young Ronaldo as he was very close with his father. It is documented in many of the Christiano Ronaldo biography books that he persuaded his father to join rehab and address his drinking while his father never accepted the offer, he was very supportive of his family. It was after some year specifically in 2007 his mother Maria Dolores dos Santos, was diagnosed with breast cancer.