Ronaldo biography
Ronaldo, in full Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima, (born September 22, 1976, Itaguai, Brazil), Brazilian soccer (soccer) participant who led Brazil to a World Cup title in 2002 and who obtained three Player of the Year awards (1996–97 and 2002) from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).
Ronaldo grew up within the poor Rio de Janeiro suburb of Bento Ribeiro. He started enjoying soccer as a junior for the neighbourhood Social Ramos Club at age 12 and two years later joined São Cristóvão within the Carioca League. By 1992 he was enjoying within the Brazilian championship for Cruzeiro. He was a member of Brazil’s under-17 South American championship staff in 1991 earlier than becoming a member of the nationwide facet in 1994.
Ronaldo was transferred in 1994 from Cruzeiro to PSV Eindhoven of the Netherlands, the place he scored 55 targets in 56 video games and gained the 1995 league championship and the 1996 Dutch Cup. After switching to FC Barcelona of Spain for the 1996–97 season, he scored 34 targets in 37 appearances and helped his staff seize the Spanish Super Cup. Because of his success, Ronaldo was paid $27 million by Inter Milan to play for the Italian membership in 1997, a file on the time. At Inter his wonderful dribbling expertise and knack for scoring targets earned him the nickname “Il Fenomeno.” In 1997 Ronaldo turned the primary participant to win FIFA’s Player of the Year award two years in a row. In 1999, nonetheless, he suffered a critical knee harm that left him unable to play for nearly two years.
Dismissing issues that his profession was over, Ronaldo returned to aggressive play in 2001. At the 2002 World Cup he scored eight targets to earn the Golden Shoe award because the event’s high scorer and helped Brazil win its fifth World Cup championship. He then introduced that he was leaving Inter for Real Madrid of Spain. After a lot wrangling, Real agreed to pay a switch payment of about $46.3 million. In 2002 Ronaldo was named each FIFA Player of the Year and European Footballer of the Year (an award he additionally had obtained in 1997). At the 2006 World Cup he scored three targets to convey his profession whole on the event to a record-setting 15 (a mark that was damaged in 2014 by Germany’s Miroslav Klose).
While enjoying for the Italian powerhouse AC Milan in 2008, Ronaldo ruptured a tendon in his left knee—the identical sort of harm that had occurred in his proper knee in 1999—which some thought would put his profession in jeopardy. In December 2008 a completely recovered Ronaldo signed with the Corinthians in São Paulo. However, he continued to be tormented by quite a lot of different, much less important, leg accidents throughout his tenure with the Corinthians in addition to by a thyroid situation that made him achieve weight, and he abruptly retired from the game in February 2011.