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LEGENDS - BRAZIL - KEYPLAYER - Ronaldo

Ronaldo Brazil

 

Personal information
Full name
Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima
Date of birth
18 September 1976 
Place of birth
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height
1.83 metres (6 ft 0 in)

Playing position
Striker


YOUTH CAREER

São Cristóvão
1990-1993

 

SENIOR CAREER*


Cruzeiro
1993-1994
14x apps / 12x goals

PSV Eindoven
1994-1996
46x apps / 42x goals

Barcelona
1996-1997
37x apps / 34x goals

Inter Milan
1997-2002
68x apps / 49x goals

Real Madrid
2002-2007
127x apps / 83x goals

A.C. Milan
2007-2008
20x apps / 9x goals

Corinthians
2009-2011
31x apps / 18x goals

 

TOTAL
343x apps / 247x goals

 

National team

Brazil U17
1993
7x apps / 5x goals


Brazil U23
1996
8x apps / 6x goals


Brazil
1994-2011
98x apps / 62x goals

(* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only)


Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, born 18 September 1976) commonly known as Ronaldo, is a retired Brazilian footballer. 

Popularly dubbed "the phenomenon", he is considered by experts and fans to be one of the greatest football players of all time.

He is one of only four men to have won the FIFA World Player of the Year award three times or more, along with Zinedine Zidane, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. 

He also won the Ballon d'Or twice, in 1997 and again in 2002.

Considered by many one of the best strikers of all time, in 2007 he was named in the greatest ever starting eleven by France Football magazine and in 2004 was named in the FIFA 100 list of the greatest living players compiled by Pelé. 

He was inducted into the Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame in 2006. 

In February 2011, Ronaldo announced his retirement from football.

Ronaldo played for Brazil in 98 matches, scoring 62 goals, and is the second highest goalscorer for his national team. 

Aged 17, he was a part of the Brazilian squad that won the 1994 FIFA World Cup. 

At the 1998 World Cup he received the Golden Ball for player of the tournament in helping Brazil reach the final where he suffered a convulsive fit hours before the defeat to France. 

He won a second World Cup in 2002 where he scored twice in the final, and received the Golden Boot as top goalscorer. 

During the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo scored his 15th World Cup goal which was a World Cup record.

Having suffered a string of serious injuries throughout his career, Ronaldo retired on 14 February 2011, citing pain and hypothyroidism as the reasons for his premature retirement.

Since 2000, Ronaldo has been a United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador, concerned with helping move the world against poverty.

In January 2013 he was named one of the six Ambassadors of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

 

 

22 Mar 2015
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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