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Success Story of Cristiano Ronaldo
Any boy known to all the living humans on earth as Cristiano Ronaldo. Most of the times defined within the say: one of the best in the world. For it is a rags-to-riches story of an underprivileged background, born and bred on the island of Madeira, Portugal, becoming an international superstar creating an epic tale of sweat, discipline, and God-gifted talent.
Early Life and Early Start
Ronaldo was born on 5 February 1985 in Funchal, Madeira. His father worked as a municipal gardener. His mother was a cook. The boy was passionately fond of football and always played with the big boys in the neighborhood since the age of early childhood days.
At the age of 12 years, Ronaldo was transferred to the youth academy of the Lisbon Sporting CP. This was a time for him just to hone in on his skills day-to-day. Time in Sporting proved crucially important for the fact that it’s where he really played alongside a few of the finest talent in the business and there is where he learned many of the minute nuances this game played upon. And with magnificent talent, which he possessed, the scouts were too glad to look at and placed him quite fast onto the roster list of the senior team.
Rise to Stardom
Joining Manchester United in 2003, when he would be aged 18 by the time he joined, would mean that the manager during his time at United would be Sir Alex Ferguson, and he would win four premier league titles in those six years with United, but wait till 2008 to bag the…