Luis Nazario De Lima or simply Ronaldo is a famous Brazilian footballer who played in the attack of various clubs and the Brazilian national team. What is interesting about his biography and main sporting achievements?
Luis Ronaldo occupies an important place in modern football history. He played at the turn of the century for many European clubs and achieved certain victories with them. He also became world champion in 2002 along with the Brazilian national team.
Childhood and adolescence of Ronaldo
Like many Brazilian footballers, Ronaldo was born in a poor area of Rio de Janeiro on September 22, 1976. Since childhood, he fell in love with a soccer ball and disappeared all day with his friends on football pitches. The mother of the future football player did not support his hobbies for sports, but his father, on the contrary, pushed him to this. Only thanks to my dad did I end up with such a wonderful footballer.
At first, Ronaldo went to the futsal section. Probably mini-football helped him develop good coordination and technique. But over time, Louis still moved to the big field.
Ronaldo signed his first contract at the age of 17 and literally immediately became a megastar in Brazilian football.
Ronaldo's sports career
Cruzeiro became the first team of the striker. During the first season, he scored 20 goals and led the championship scorers' race. Such achievements could not be ignored. And the best clubs from all over the world began to chase him. In total, Luis played 50 matches for Cruzeiro and scored 45 goals.
In 1994, Ronaldo moved for $ 5 million to the Dutch PSV. During the first season in Holland, the Brazilian scored 30 times and became the best sniper in the championship. He also started the next season phenomenally and scored 19 goals in 20 matches. But a terrible knee injury followed, and Ronaldo was eliminated before the end of the year.
But despite the injury, he is bought by Spanish Barcelona, which paid PSV $ 20 million. In Spain, he continued to score a large number of goals. In the first season, Luis hammered 34 goals into the opponent's goal and became the top scorer. He also helped Barça win the Cup Winners' Cup in 1996.
Ronaldo then moves to Inter Italian and becomes the best footballer in the world for the first time. He is awarded the UEFA Golden Ball at the end of 1997. Moreover, Inter paid Barcelona $ 25 million. For this club, he spent five seasons, but really played only in the first. Then Ronaldo helped the club win the UEFA Cup, and for the remaining four years he was mainly engaged in the treatment of his injured knee. The whole football world wished Louis a speedy recovery, but the miracle happened only in 2002.
After a successful performance at the 2002 World Cup, Ronaldo moved to Spanish Real. It all started well at first. He became the champion of Spain for the first time and scored many goals. But gradually his personal statistics began to deteriorate, and Real was constantly left without trophies.
In 2007, Ronaldo moved to the Italian Milan, but he failed to play for this club. He was constantly tormented by injuries. At the end of 2008, Luis had already begun to think about ending his career, but an offer came from his homeland from the Corinthians club. Luis played for the team for two seasons and scored 35 goals. This helped him win the Brazilian Cup and the São Paulo State Championship.
In 2011, a special press conference was held at which Ronaldo announced the end of his football career.
For the Brazilian national team, Ronaldo played many matches and twice became the world champion. True, for the first time in 1994 he was only in the application and never appeared on the field.
Life after football
After completing his career, Ronaldo became an international football ambassador and attends major football tournaments every year.
In his personal life, he also has complete diversity. For all the time, Ronaldo had romances with various actresses and models, who gave birth to many children. But Louis was officially married only twice. First it was the Brazilian football player Milena Dominguez, and then the model Maria Antoni. From these girls he had three children.
