– Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo is having a trying time this summer in France. Right from the shirt swapping incident with Iceland captain Aron Gunnarsson, the missed penalty vs Austria to chucking the reporters mic into a lake and the brace against Hungary, CR7 has been in the news. All this, and yet, tonight Cristiano Ronaldo leads Portugal into the quarter-final of Euro 2016 against Robert Lewandowski’s Poland. Here are 10 astonishing facts about Portugal’s main man – Cristiano Ronaldo.
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was named after U.S. President, Ronald Reagan who was his father’s favourite actor, and whom he greatly admired.
Unlike many sports stars today, Ronaldo has no tattoos and has no desire to get one anytime soon as he regularly donates blood.
Ronaldo also does not smoke or drink alcohol as his father died at the age of 52 from alcoholism and he also deems it will affect his playing.
At 15 years old Cristiano was diagnosed with a condition called racing heart. He had an operation that used a laser to cauterize the area of his heart that caused the problem. The operation enabled him to continue his training and love affair with football.
In his teen years, Ronaldo would train in the gym using weights on either of his feet and then dribble with the ball. He figured that training with the weights would improve his game to make him faster.
Cristiano Ronaldo can generate 5G of G-force on takace- off. The pace is the five times the power of a wild Cheetah. This amazing speed enables him to reach the heights of 44 cm in the air from a standing start and with a run-up it is 78 cm, which is more than the average NBA player.
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored a goal in every minute of a game over his career.
Cristiano Ronaldo is Real Madrid’s all-time leading goal scorer. Ronaldo, 30, needed a mere 310 matches across seven seasons to overtake Raul’s tally of 323 goals, amassed in 741 games over 16 years.
Cristiano Ronaldo has been scoring 50+ goals for 6 consecutive seasons.
As of 2015-16 season, Cristiano Ronaldo is UEFA Champions League’s all-time leading scorer.
… and still the question remains, who is better – Ronaldo or Messi? Leave a comment below.
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