Claim: Cristiano Ronaldo was a soccer player.
Evidence: Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro , -LRB- -LSB- kɾiʃ ` tjɐnu ʁuˈnaɫdu -RSB- , born 5 February 1985 -RRB- is a Portuguese professional footballer for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Portugal national team.
Association football , more commonly known as football or soccer , is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.