Ronaldo's First Club The Foundation of a Phenomenal Journey

Ronaldo is the first male player to reach 200 international appearances, Portugal's most capped player and was voted by the Portuguese Football Federation as ... The five-time Ballon d'Or winner made his debut at the age of 17 and spent just a year in the first team set-up before joining Manchester United ... It was Ronaldo's mother Dolores Aveiro who raised the boy. But nothing about the lady who gave birth was ever made public. Cristiano Jr, who is 14 years old, has followed his father wherever he has played, featuring for both Juventus' and Manchester United's ... Aged just seven, he began playing for his local club - Club Futebol Andorinha, before he tried his luck with Club Desportivo National. This is the shirt number history of Cristiano Ronaldo from Al-Nasr Riad. This statistic shows which shirt numbers the palyer has already ... Ronaldo's first professional football team was Sporting Clube de Portugal, where he made his debut in 2002. Despite facing a heart condition ... At 16 years old, Ronaldo's talent was spotted in Sporting's youth team as he was then promoted to the first team. He made his debut for the club ... Cristiano began to play for Andorinha, his first club, from the age of around eight, and even then, his talent was evident. "We were eight, nine years old," ... Ronaldo would go on to be a sparkling success at Sporting, playing just a single season for the first team before making his move to one of the biggest clubs in ...