Cristiano Ronaldo Fun Facts

Cristiano Ronaldo Fun Facts:

• NAME: Cristiano Ronaldo

• Ronaldo’s full name is “Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro”, he was named after former american president Ronald Reagen. Ronaldo name was choosen by his father who was admired of the american president.

• OCCUPATION: Soccer Player

• BIRTH DATE: February 05, 1985 (Age: 28)

• PLACE OF BIRTH: Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

•  ZODIAC SIGN: Aquarius

• Ronaldo was nicknamed "cry-baby" as a child. His mother Dolores Aveiro said: "When he got home from school I'd tell him to do homework but he'd say he didn't have any. I'd be making dinner and he would jump out of the window and run off until late. He used to cry when he passed and his friends didn't score. People called him 'cry-baby' and 'little bee' because nobody could catch him."

• He was an amazing player even at 11 years old. Paulo Cardoso, his first coach at Sporting Lisbon, said: "When he got the ball he went past two or three players. At the end of the game the players gathered around him, they knew he was a special kid."

• Jose Mourinho likened Ronaldo to Marco van Basten, the former Holland striker. Mourinho said: "I remember the first time I saw him play. It was for Sporting youth. I told my assistant, 'There goes Van Basten's son.' He had great technique. He stood out."

• As a teenager Ronaldo would train in the gym using weights on either foot and then dribbling with the ball. He thought it would improve his technique because without weights he would be even faster.

• Liverpool decided Ronaldo wasn't good enough a year before he signed for United for £12.2 m from Sporting in 2003. After the winger played against United in a friendly Sir Alex Ferguson said: "At half-time I knew I had to sign this boy. He was sensational."

• There is only one Cristiano Ronaldo but there are two Ronaldos. As coach of Brazil, Luiz Felipe Scolari, who worked with the other Ronaldo, said: "I hoped Cristiano would be as good one day. He just doesn't stop, no matter how much you demand of him."

• 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.

• It would take Cristiano Ronaldo just 6 days, 9 hours, 17 minutes and 5 seconds to earn what Barack Obama earns in one year! This is the most powerful man on the planet! he is currently earning £274,000/$452,182 in a week. It would take Cristiano Ronaldo 3 days, 19 hours, 40 minutes and 16 seconds to earn enough money to buy a 911 Turbo S Cabriolet. Ronaldo is the Highest Paid Footballer in the World.

• Ronaldo grew up in a largely working class neighborhood, his home a small tin roofed shack that overlooked the ocean. His early life was shaped by hardship; his father, a gardener, often drank too much, and eventually died from kidney problems in 2005. To help keep the children fed, and maintain some financial stability, Ronaldo's mother worked as a cook and cleaning person.

• It was through his dad's work as an equipment manager at a boy's club that Ronaldo was first introduced to the game of soccer. By the time he was 10 years old, he was already recognized as a phenomenon—a kid who ate, slept and drank the game. "All he wanted to do as a boy was play football,"

• If you have seen Ronaldo often in football games you would know that he has this amazing ability of jumping head and shoulders higher than the other footballers. Which gives him many headed goals. He can easily out jump an average NBA player.

• Ronaldo's freekick speed is around 130 kilometres an hour, which means 31.1 metres per second more than four times of Apollo 11 rocket's launching speed which was 7.3 metres per second.