Ronaldo
Brazilian association football player (born 1976) · Brazil · Footballers
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Something wrong?O Fenômeno - the striker who redefined what the position could be before his knees betrayed him. At 21, the youngest Ballon d'Or winner ever. At 23, over 200 goals. Then nearly three years gone, and a convulsive fit hours before the 1998 World Cup final that became football's most haunting what-if.
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Ronaldo scoring the winning penalty for Barcelona in the 1997 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final against Paris Saint-Germain
Ronaldo at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival
Ronaldo won La Liga in his first season and received the Pichichi Trophy in his second.
Ronaldo taking a shot for Real Madrid in 2005
Ronaldo's Inter Milan away jersey (left) and A.C. Milan away jersey (right) in the San Siro museum. He played for Inter from 1997 to 2002, and A.C. Milan from 2007 to 2008.
Ineligible to play having signed for the club mid season, Ronaldo (standing sixth from left) celebrated the 2007 UEFA Champions League triumph with his A.C. Milan teammates.
Ronaldo during his Corinthians unveiling in 2009, with Brazil president Lula handing him the jerseyIn their own words 1
, I don't know my weight. By knowing, I get a little traumatized. I purposely try to avoid getting on a scale.
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About this person
Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima was born 18 September 1976 in Brazil and tore through Cruzeiro, PSV, then Barcelona, where at 20 he became the youngest FIFA World Player of the Year in 1996. Inter Milan broke the world transfer record to sign him in 1997 - making him the first since Maradona to break it twice - and at 21 he claimed the Ballon d'Or, still the youngest ever. A series of knee injuries cost him nearly three years. He returned to win the 2002 World Cup, scoring twice in the final and taking the Golden Boot - redemption for the convulsive fit that felled him hours before the 1998 final. He moved to Real Madrid, won La Liga in 2002-03, then had spells at AC Milan and Corinthians before retiring in 2011. He scored 62 goals in 98 matches for Brazil, the third-highest total, and his 15th World Cup goal in 2006 was a tournament record at the time. He now owns Real Valladolid and, as of December 2021, held a controlling stake in boyhood club Cruzeiro before selling in April 2024.
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