Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, OIH (born 5 February 1985), known as Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Real Madrid and captains the Portugal national team. He became the when he moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2009 in a transfer worth £80 million (€94 million/$131.6 million). Ronaldo's contract with Real Madrid, under the terms of he is paid €21 million per year (after taxes), makes him the highest-paid footballer in the world, and his buyout clause is valued at €1 billion as per his contract.

Ronaldo began his career as a youth player for Andorinha, where he played for two years, before moving to C.D. Nacional. In 1997, he made a move to Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal. Ronaldo caught the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, who signed him for £12.24 million (€15 million) in 2003. In 2004, Ronaldo won his first club honour, the FA cup.

Ronaldo was the first player playing in England to win all four main PFA and FWA awards, doing so in 2007. In 2008 and 2013, Ronaldo won the FIFA/Ballon d'Or award for the best footballer on the planet, being the first ever Portuguese to win the award twice. He was awarded the European Golden Shoe in both 2008 and 2011. In 2008, he won three of the four main PFA and FWA trophies and was named the FIFA World Player of the year, FIFPRO Player of the year, World Soccer Player of the Year, and the Onze D'or. In 2007 and 2008, Ronaldo was named FWA Footballer of the Year. Ronaldo was the inaugural winner of the FIFA Puskàs Award for the Goal of the Year in 2009.

Ronaldo is the first top European league player to reach 40 goals in a single season in two consecutive years, fastest Real Madrid player to reach one hundred league goals, and the first player ever to score against every team in a single season in La Liga. He also holds the record for most goals scored in a season for Real Madrid. In January 2014, Ronaldo scored his 400th career goal. After spending his first year at Madrid wearing the number 9 shirt, he began wearing the number 7 again following the departure of long-serving striker Raùl. Ronaldo had previously worn the number 7 shirt at Manchester United.

Ronaldo is a Portuguese international and made his debut in August 2003. He has been capped over 100 times and is his country's joint-top goalscorer of all time. With Portugal he has participated in five major tournaments; UEFA Euro 2004, the 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2008, the 2010 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2012. He scored his first international goal in the opening game of Euro 2004 against Greece, in addition to helping Portugal reach the final. He took over the captaincy of the side in July 2008 and went on to captain Portugal to the semi-finals at Euro 2012 and finished the competition as the joint top scorer.

CR7 full/complete statistics and goals for Real Madrid, in 2010-2011:
Right Foot: 25 | Left Foot: 9 | Head: 5 | Free Kick: 6 | Penalty Kick: 9 | TOTAL: 54

CR7 full/complete statistics and goals for Real Madrid, in 2011-2012:
Right Foot: 26 | Left Foot: 9 | Head: 7 | Free Kick: 4 | Penalty Kick: 14 | TOTAL: 60

CR7 full/complete statistics and goals for Real Madrid, in 2012-2013:
Right Foot: 19 | Left Foot: 16 | Head: 9 | Free Kick: 4 | Penalty Kick: 7 | TOTAL: 55

CR7 full/complete statistics and goals for Real Madrid, in 2013-2014:
Right Foot: 15 | Left Foot: 4 | Head: 4 | Free Kick: 3 | Penalty Kick: 6 | TOTAL: 34

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Ronaldo joined Sporting's other youth players who trained at the Academia Sporting, the club's football academy, in Alcochete. He became the only player ever to play for Sporting's under-16, under-17, under-18, B-team, and the first team, all within one season. He scored two goals in his league debut on 7 October 2002, which Sporting CP won 3–0 against Moreirense , while featuring for Portugal in the 2002 European Under-17 Championship.

At the age of 15 Ronaldo was diagnosed with a racing heart, a condition that might have forced him to give up playing football. The Sporting staff were made aware of the condition and Ronaldo's mother gave her authorisation for him to go into hospital. While there, he had an operation in which a laser was used to cauterise the area of his heart that was causing the problem. The surgery took place in the morning and Ronaldo was discharged from hospital by the end of the afternoon; he resumed training only a few days later.

In November 2002, Ronaldo was invited to Arsenal's training ground, London Colney to meet manager Arséne Wenger and his coaching staff. Wenger, who was interested in signing the midfielder, had arranged to meet Ronaldo's representatives, Formation (who suggested the player originally to Gérard Houllier, then Liverpool's manager and Joan Laporta, then Barcelona's president) in the subsequent months to discuss a transfer arrangement. However he came to the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson in the summer of 2003, when Sporting defeated United 3–1 in the inauguration of the Estàdio José Alvalade in Lisbon. Ronaldo's performance impressed the Manchester United players, who urged Ferguson to sign him.

On April 2013, Ronaldo was honoured by Sporting as the club announced that the player had become their 100,000th member.            

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​Ronaldo became Manchester United's first-ever Portuguese player when he signed for €15 million (£12.24 million) after the 2002–03 season. He requested the number 28 (his number at Sporting), as he did not want the pressure of living up to the expectation linked to the number 7 shirt, which had previously been worn by players such as Johnny Berry, George Best, Steve Coppell, Bryan Robson, Eric Cantona and David Beckham, and subsequently worn by Michael Owen and Antonio Valencia. "After I joined, the manager asked me what number I'd like. I said 28. But Ferguson said 'No, you're going to have No. 7,' and the famous shirt was an extra source of motivation. I was forced to live up to such an honour."

Ronaldo made his team debut as a 60th-minute substitute in a 4–0 home victory over Bolton Wanderers. He scored his first goal for Manchester United with a free kick in a 3–0 win over Portsmouth on 1 November 2003. Ronaldo ended his first season in English football by scoring the opening goal in United's 3–0 FA Cup final victory over Millwall.

He scored United's 1000th Premier League goal on 29 October 2005 in a 4–1 loss to Middlesbrough. He scored ten goals in all competitions, and fans voted him to his first FIFPro Special Young Player of the Year award in 2005.

He was sent off in the Manchester derby at the City of Manchester Stadium on 14 January 2006 (a game which United lost 3–1) for kicking City's former United player Andrew Cole. Ronaldo won his second trophy in English football in the 2005–06 season, scoring the third goal in Manchester United's 4–0 Football League Cup final victory over Wigan Athletic.            

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​The 2006–2007 season proved to be the breakout year for Ronaldo, as he broke the 20 goal barrier for the first time and picked up his first league titlewith Manchester United. An important factor in this success was his one-to-one training by first team coach René Meulensteen. Meulensteen coached him in moves to make himself more unpredictable. He also helped him to work better with his team-mates, calling for the ball and scoring more 'ugly' goals instead of waiting for the special occasion when he could score the 'beautiful' goals for which he was already famous.

In November and December 2006, Ronaldo received consecutive Barclays Player of the Month honours, becoming only the third player in Premier League history to do so after Dennis Bergkamp in 1997 and Robbie Fowler in 1996. He scored his 50th Manchester United goal against city rivals Manchester City on 5 May 2007 as United claimed their first Premier League title in four years, and he was voted into his second consecutive FIFPro Special Young Player of the Year award at the end of the year.

Despite rumours circulating in March 2007 that Real Madrid were willing to pay an unprecedented €80 million (£54 million) for Ronaldo, he signed a five-year, £120,000-a-week (£31 million total) extension with United on 13.

Ronaldo's 2007–08 season began with a red card for a headbutt on Portsmouth player Richard Hughes during United's second match of the season, for which he was punished with a three-match ban.Ronaldo said he had "learned a lot" from the experience and would not let players "provoke" him in the future.After scoring the only goal in a Champions League away match against Sporting, Ronaldo also scored the injury-time winner in the return fixture as Manchester United topped their Champions League group.

He finished as the runner-up to Kaká for the 2007 Ballon d'Or, and was third in the running for the FIFA World Player of the Year award, behind Kaká and Lionel Messi.

Ronaldo scored his first hat-trick for Manchester United in a 6–0 win against Newcastle United at Old Trafford on 12 January 2008, bringing Manchester United up to the top of the Premier League table. He scored his twenty-third league goal of the season in a 2–0 win against Reading, equalling his entire total for the 2006–07 season. During a 1–1 Champions League first knockout round draw against Lyon on 20 February, an unidentified Lyon supporter continuously aimed a green laser at Ronaldo and United teammate Nani, prompting an investigation by UEFA. One month later, Lyon were fined CHF5,000 (£2,427) for the incident.

On 19 March 2008, Ronaldo captained United for the first time in his career in a home win over Bolton, scoring both goals in the 2–0 victory. The second of the goals was his 33rd of the campaign, which set a new club single-season scoring record by a midfielder and thus topped George Best's forty-year-old total of 32 goals in the 1967–68 season. Ronaldo scored another brace in a 4–0 win over Aston Villa on 29 March, which at the time gave him 35 goals in 37 domestic and European matches as both a starter and substitute. Ronaldo's scoring streak was rewarded with his becoming the first winger to win the 2007–08 European Golden Shoe, finishing eight points ahead of Mallorca's Dani Güiza.             

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​On 26 June 2009, Real Madrid confirmed that Ronaldo would join the club on 1 July 2009 from Manchester United for £80 million (€94 million) becoming the most expensive footballer in history, after agreeing terms and signing a six-year contract. Ronaldo's contract is worth €11 million per year and it has a €1 billion buy-out clause. He was presented to the world media as a Real Madrid player on 6 July, where he was handed the number 9 jersey. The shirt was presented to him by Madrid legend Alfredo Di Stéfano. Ronaldo was welcomed by between 80,000 and 85,000 fans at his presentation at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, surpassing Diego Maradona's record of 75,000 fans when he was presented in Italy, after he was transferred from Barcelona to Napoli in 1984. The event was broadcast live on the Spanish and Portuguese public TV stations, RTVEand RTP respectively.

Ronaldo made his Madrid debut on 21 July in a 1–0 win over Shamrock Rovers. His first goal came one week later with a penalty in Madrid's 4–2 win over LDU Quito. On 29 August, Ronaldo capped his La Liga debut with a goal, scoring Real's second from the penalty spot in a 3–2 home win against Deportivo La Coruña. On 15 September, Ronaldo scored two free-kicks in a 5–2 away victory over Zürich, his first Champions League goals for Real. He broke a Madrid club record when he scored in a league match against Villarreal and thus became the first ever player to score in his first four La Liga appearances.

An ankle injury suffered on 10 October, while Ronaldo was on international duty with Portugal against Hungary, kept him out until 25 November, which in turn caused him to miss both of Madrid's Champions League group stage matches against Milan. Ronaldo made his first post-injury start in a 1–0 El Clásico defeat to Barcelona on 29 November. On 6 December, he was sent off for the first time in his Madrid career during Real's 4–2 victory against Almería, a match which also saw him miss a penalty. He was carded first for removing his shirt during a goal celebration, then for kicking out at an opponent three minutes later.

Ronaldo was second in the 2009 FIFA World Player of the Year award and also second in the 2009 Ballon d'Or award. On 5 May 2010, Ronaldo scored his first Real Madrid hat-trick in an away game against Mallorca. Ronaldo and Gonzalo Higuaín scored 53 league goals during the course of the season and became Real's highest scoring league duo in their history.             

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​With the departure of Raúl during the summer of 2010, Ronaldo was handed the number 7 jersey for Real Madrid. On 23 October 2010, Ronaldo scored four goals against Racing de Santander,the most goals he has ever scored in a single match. This completed a goalscoring run of six consecutive matches (three in La Liga, one in the Champions League, and two forPortugal) in which Ronaldo scored in each match, totalling 11 goals, which is the most Ronaldo has scored in a single month. Before Real Madrid's 5–0 defeat by Barcelona at the Camp Nou, Ronaldo scored his second La Liga hat-trick of the season in a 5–1 win over Athletic Bilbao. His final match of the calendar year saw him score a hat-trick in a 8–0 trashing of Levante in theCopa del Rey.Ronaldo began 2011 with a very promising outlook, especially after Real Madrid acknowledged he had broken numerous goalscoring records, previously settled and held by classic players such as Alfredo Di Stéfano, Hugo Sánchez, and Manuel Alday. Ronaldo began his scoring spree by scoring two vital goals in a tight 3–2 victory away to Getafe. He then consolidated his massive performances by scoring a hat-trick and assistingKaká to score his first league goal after his return from injury in a 4–2 victory over Villarreal on 9 January. On 3 March 2011, Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in a 7–0 trashing of Málaga, but was affected by a muscle injury at the end of the match, which forced him to spend 10 days on the sidelines.In April, he made another massive comeback from injury, sustaining a three-game scoring streak (including two goals in Champions League quarter-finals against Tottenham Hotspur), thus arriving to the first of a historical series of four El Clásico encounters two goals short of breaking his personal record of 42 goals in all competitions in a single season, achieved at Manchester United in the 2007–08 season.

During the second league edition of El Clásico, Ronaldo scored from the penalty spot and took his tally to 41 goals, also taking his scoring streak to four games. On 20 April, Ronaldo scored the winning goal againstBarcelona in the 103rd minute of the Copa del Rey final. This goal would later be chosen as both Ronaldo's and Real Madrid's best goal in the season by several fan polls, including those of Marca and Real Madrid's website. 7 May saw Real travel to the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán to take on Sevilla, where Ronaldo led the thrashing of the Andalusian side, scoring four goals in a 6–2 victory. These four goals took him to 46 for the season which surpassed his previous record of 42 in a season playing for Manchester United. Three days later he reached 49 goals for the season, by scoring another hat-trick in a 4–0 home win against Getafe. On 15 May, after scoring two free-kick goals in a 3–1 win over Villarreal, he equalled the La Liga record with most goals in a season with 38, a record previously held by Telmo Zarra and Hugo Sánchez.

On 21 May, he scored two goals in the last league match of the season against Almería, taking his Pichichi total to 41, and La Liga total to 40, becoming the only player to score 40 goals in a La Liga season. By doing this, he won the European Golden Shoe award once again, becoming the first player to win the trophy in two different leagues. The sports newspaper Marca, which awards the Pichichi Trophy, included the goal scored on 18 September 2010 against Real Sociedad in Ronaldo's goal count, which had been officially attributed to Pepe. Should this goal be granted to Ronaldo, his goal count in the Pichichi Trophy would tally 41 goals. Ronaldo also broke Zarra's record of most goals per minute, with a goal scored every 70.7 minutes. However, regardless of this goal polemic, Ronaldo's record-breaking figures became a source of major attention from public media, such as being included in the Sports Illustrated World XI, rating him as one of the world's best footballers.

Ronaldo ended his second season at Real Madrid by winning his first club honour with the club, the 2011 Copa del Rey, notching a total of 53 goals (not granting him the controversial goal from Pepe) in all competitions, having scored 25 goals with his right foot (excluding free-kicks and penalty-kicks) and 9 with his left foot.

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Individual Awards Cristiano Ronaldo

UEFA Euro Team of the Tournament (2): 2004, 2012

Bravo Award (1): 2004

FIFPro Special Young Player of the Year (2): 2004, 2005

PFA Young Player of the Year (1): 2006–07

Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year (3): 2003–04, 2006–07, 2007–08

PFA Players' Player of the Year (2): 2006–07, 2007–08

PFA Fans' Player of the Year (2): 2006–07, 2007–08

FWA Footballer of the Year (2): 2006–07, 2007–08

Barclays Player of the Year (2): 2006–07, 2007–08

Premier League Player of the Month (4): November 2006, December 2006, January 2008, March 2008

Premier League Golden Boot (1): 2007–08

Barclays Merit Award (1): 2007–08

UEFA Champions League Topscorer (1): 2007–08

UEFA Club Forward of the Year (1): 2007–08

UEFA Club Footballer of the Year (1): 2007–08

FIFA Club World Cup Silver Ball (1): 2008

UEFA Euro 2008 Man of the Match (1): Czech Republic vs Portugal

Ballon d'Or (1): 2008

FIFA World Player of the Year (1): 2008

FIFPro World Player of the Year (1): 2008

Onze d'Or (1): 2008

World Soccer Player of the Year (1): 2008

PFA Premier League Team of the Year (4): 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09

FIFA Puskás Award (1): 2009

European Golden Shoe (2): 2007–08, 2010–11

CNID Best Portuguese Athlete Abroad (4): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011

UEFA Team of the Year (6): 2003–04, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11

FIFA FIFPro World XI (5): 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

FIFA World Cup 2010 Man of the Match (3): Côte d'Ivoire vs Portugal, Portugal vs Korea DPR, Portugal vs Brazil

La Liga top scorer (1): 2010–11

Copa del Rey top goalscorer (1): 2010–11

Trofeo Alfredo Di Stéfano (1): 2011–12

ESM Team of the Year (4): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2011–12

UEFA Euro 2012 Man of the Match (2): Portugal vs Netherlands, Czech Republic vs Portugal

UEFA Euro Top Scorer (1): 2012

Goal.com Player of the Year (1): 2012

First Player in History of El Clasico to Score in 6 Straight Games             

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CR7  has dated many women in the past , but this is the toplist of the hottest Cristiano Ronaldo girlfriends so far.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Irina Shayk Love Story

Irina’s career is going great guns and is blossoming with each passing day and Cristiano’s professions are such that they have to spend lots of time away from each other which sparks off rumors that they have broken up. However, Ronaldo’s girlfriend candidly explains says that she is happy with her relationship and the future will only say whether they will start a family together. She blushes when she says that her man always manages to put a smile on her face that is the most exciting part of the relationship. They started dating almost three years ago, when Cristiano gave birth to a baby boy and whose mother is an anonymous American lady.

Although there were rumors doing the rounds that the duo had possibly broken up because Ronaldo was cheating on Irina Shayk with a Brazilian model, known as Miss Bumbum. However Ronaldo and Irina’s strong and undying love for each other silenced such rumors. The couple was spotted for the first time after these rumors for a match between Nadal and Ferrer; they seemed to be totally comfortable with each other, exchanged loving glances and remained glued to each other rather than the match. The duo have been seeing each other since May 2010, but they go for long periods without seeing each other as Ronaldo is busy with his football assignments and has to split time between Madrid and Native Portugal. Irina who is mostly in New York for modeling work, travels all over the world because of her work commitments.

Irina said that she was unaffected by all the rumours of Ronaldo cheating on her. While Urach reportedly went on saying that Ronaldo was obsessed with her and wanted to meet her in person in Madrid and that he wanted everything to be under wraps because Irina would be outraged if she got to know about it, Irina chose to maintain a no comment stance. In fact Ronaldo became furious to hear such stories and said it was absolutely and fictitious and that he was absolutely in love with Irina.

Ronaldo and Shayk were reportedly engaged and the Russian beauty was spotted flaunting an eye catching sparkler on the third finger of her left hand. Irina’s ring comprised a mound of diamonds and was obviously very expensive and the ring grabbed the limelight from her boyfriend who was picking up the Golden Boot Award. Ronaldo is a very romantic boyfriend and loves to surprise his lady love. He flew all the way from Spain to New York to propose the glamorous model on Valentine’s Day.

The couple is quite serious about the relationship and is contemplating marriage. In fact there were even reports that Irina was expecting Ronaldo’s child. Even Ronaldo’s mother wanted her son to settle down and also expressed the desire that they should get married in the footballer’s hometown of Funchal, on the Portuguese island of Madeira.

Before dating Irina, Ronaldo maintained a playboy image. He dated many socialites previously but seems to have tamed down and found love in her girlfriend.

On the red carpet in Zurich last night, a grinning Cristiano Ronaldo, his model girlfriend Irina Shayk and little Cristiano Ronaldo Jr looked like they could give the Beckhams a run in the genetically-blessed stakes.Of course, the Portuguese footballer had plenty to grin about. Scooping the prestigious 2013 Fifa Ballon d'Or for the second time in his career in his shiny DSquared2 suit, his feat ended his FC Barcelona rival Lionel Messi's four-year reign as holder of the crown.But Russian-born Irina, who has graced the cover of Sports Illustrated and modelled for lingerie giant Intimissimi, is not themãe to three-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo Jr. He was suddenly welcomed into the world (well, to the general public at least) when his birth was announced by Ronaldo in 2010, shortly after he started dating Ms Shayk. The 28-year-old former Manchester United star has formal custody of the tot and his mother's identity remains unknown.

Cristiano Ronaldo girlfriends of the past

Raffaella Fico

In an interview at 5 AM , Raffaella Fico is back for a moment to talk about the story that had in the past with footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid star , and recently engaged to the beautiful model Irina Shayk . The alleged romance between Cristiano Ronaldo and Raffaella Fico there was talk a few years ago , back in 2009: the Neapolitan boasted of having had an affair with the Portuguese who , however , for its part , had made it quite the opposite.In short, it seemed more the latest attempt to Raffaella Fico to get publicity , rather than a real engagement . Although Raffaella Fico was strong behind a photograph which appeared along with Cristiano Ronaldo but almost in the background, as if she were there by chance . Today , years later , Raffaella Fico is back to talk about the alleged affair with the Portuguese and 5 AM , program hosted by Federica Panicucci , the Neapolitan reiterated that she had been engaged for eight months with the star of the Real.

Paris Hilton

The first noche by galactic Cristiano Ronaldo has celebrated with a fiesta of those to remember. The most expensive footballer in the history of world football has been granted a dance club called Myhouse and is one of the most famous and exclusive Hollywood . But most of the restaurant is the company that has attracted the attention : the new darling of Florentino Perez has been spotted nientemenoché Paris Hilton , the queen of American wild nights . And indeed, as I said , the place was not Madrid 's nightlife ( there will be time to explore the Spanish capital Bynight ), but Beverly Hills , as the Ballon d'Or has landed in Los Angeles a few days ago , before moving to Miami (although one of its commitments remains that ... presentation in a minor at the Bernabeu with Kaka ) .The odd couple if you literally had a good time , according to testimony gathered in fact there were not enough ... waiter to satisfy their needs alcohol and late evening is coming off a spesuccia to 20 thousand dollars. Peanuts for the two rich guy who is lying on the sofas and they did not miss any more than brotherly hug and effusion (see gallery). And to say that specialists gossip gave Cristiano engaged in a liaison with Luana Belletti , sister of Juliano , Chelsea full-back . An output that has made public the joy of the paparazzi stars and stripes , but the evening ended in the villa of Nicky Hilton, sister of Paris , which has seen fit to give a party in onone of his friend Christian ( spotted around the street at three in the morning) . Or perhaps, simply , those parts any excuse to celebrate ...

Mirella Grisales

The Colombian model Mirella Grisales was seen with CR7 in Portugal and it is said that CR sucked her fingers and fiddled with her bikini bottoms. How very intriguing!

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The soccer player with the highest salary is Ronaldo. He scores about $20 million every year in the league including the bonuses. He earns more in his deals with Nike, Konami, Castrol etc. off pitch.

He is also the advertising face of brands like Armani, Coke and Nike and has partnership with them. He was going to receive $11 million every year in 6 years in a contract he made with Real Madrid which made him the highest-paid football player in the entire world.

Ronaldo has signed many sponsorships as his reputation rapidly grew from his time at Manchester United. In October 2009, Ronaldo was named the new spokesmodel for Emporio Armanimen's underwear and jeans.  In February 2010, he re-upped his endorsement contract with American sportswear company Nike until 2014. He has also signed other sponsorships from Coca-Cola, Castrol, Konami, Banco Espirito Santo, Motorola, Jacob & co., Herbalife and KFC. All of his sponsorships have earned him a total of an estimated $21 million per year as of June 2013.

Armani

Ronaldo was also a part of the campaign of Armani with Megan Fox in the past and further moved on for sports modelling. He signed up later with Gucci.

Nike

The biggest brand in sports is Nike and Ronaldo has a major partnership with the brand being a football player.

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