Ronaldo's Soccer Roots Exploring His Initial Club

* Played youth club football at Nacional before joining ... * In the 2022 World Cup in Qatar Ronaldo became the first and only male player ... Ronaldo, who began his career as a winger, failed to score in the first four games of his career — before finding the net twice for Sporting ... These are the debut games of Cristiano Ronaldo of Al-Nasr Riad. This site contains the matches in which the player made his debut in a competition. A couple years later, in 2002 he joined a better soccer club called the Sporting Clube de Portugal which means the Sporting Club of Portugal. At the club nobody ... Cristiano Ronaldo exhausted all superlatives during his first spell with Manchester United, while he matured from an inexperienced, young winger in 2003. At the age of 18, Ronaldo made his debut for Portugal as a substitute against Kazakhstan on 20 August 2003. At UEFA Euro 2004, he scored his first international ... Ronaldo became the first player in soccer history to score goals in 24 consecutive calendar years during his professional career. Since his ... Cristiano Ronaldo's first jersey number was No. 28, given to him after he broke into the Sporting Lisbon first team from the youth setup in 2002. Cristiano Ronaldo's first-ever club was Andorinha, a small football club based on the island of Madeira, Portugal. He joined the club at the ... Cristiano Ronaldo scored his first European Championship goal and first international goal for Portugal in a 2-1 group stage defeat to Greece at Euro 2004.