रोनाल्डो

रोनाल्डो लुइस नझारियो दि लिमा(सप्टेंबर १८,इ.स. १९७६), हाब्राझिलचाफुटबॉलखेळाडू आहे. He plays as astrikerforBraziland the ItalianSerie AclubAC Milan. He has been nicknamed "The Phenomenon" (Portuguese:O Fenômeno,Spanish:El Fenómeno).Pelénamed him one of the 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004.
Ronaldo has enjoyed success at the international level, winning the1994and2002 FIFA World Cups with Brazil. Ronaldo has won threeFIFA World Player of the Yearawards (1996, 1997, 2002). He and formerरेआल माद्रिदteammateZinedine Zidaneare the only two men to have won the award three times.
Ronaldo was born inBento Ribeiro, a poor neighborhood inRio de Janeiro, Brazil. Like many of his friends, he began to play football in the streets of his neighborhood. Ronaldo's actual date of birth isSeptember 18,1976, however, his father did not register his birth certificate untilSeptember 221976so some discrepancy has existed as to his actual birth date.
In April 1999,  Ronaldo marriedMilene Domingues. The marriage lasted four years and ended in divorce. The couple had a son, Ronald (born 2000). In 2005, Ronaldo got engaged to Brazilian model andMTVVJDaniela Cicarelli, who became pregnant but suffered amiscarriage; their relationship lasted 3 months after their engagement. He ended his relationship with BraziliansupermodelRaica Oliveirain December 2006. Writer Andrew Downie asserted a correlation between Ronaldo's personal life and performance on the pitch, noting that his most prolific periods of goalscoring have coincided with the times when he was happily married.
In 2005, Ronaldo became co-owner ofA1 Team Brazil, alongside Brazilian motorsports legendEmerson Fittipaldi. The team participates in theA1 Grand Prixseries, withNelson Piquet, Jr.,Tony Kanaanand João Paulo Oliveira as drivers for the debut season.
Ronaldo's football abilities were first recognised when he was 14. He was recommended to the Brazil youth team byWorld CupwinnerJairzinho, who also arranged for his own former club,Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, to sign him when he was old enough for a professional contract.साचा:FactRonaldo scored 12 goals in 13 games in the Brazilian National Championship, and in the Minas Gerais State Championship he scored all three goals in Cruzeiro's 3-1 victory against arch-rival Atlético Mineiro. After being scouted byPiet de Visser, he was soon transferred for US$6 million toPSV Eindhoven, where he scored 42 goals in 46 league games and reached a total of 55 goals in 57 official appearances. Later he attracted the attention of Spain'sFC Barcelona. He played for Barça in the 1996-97 season, scoring 47 in 49 (including appearances in theCopa del ReyandEuropean Cup Winners Cup) on the way to leading the Catalan side toUEFA Cup Winners' Cuptriumph (where he capped the season with the winning goal in the cup final itself).Inter Milanswooped to sign him the following year, and Ronaldo duly helped them repeat his former side's cup-winning run, this time in theUEFA Cup. As of 2006, Ronaldo is the last player to score more than 30 goals in 1 season in the SpanishLa Liga.
On 21 November 1999, during a Serie A match against Lecce, Ronaldo felt his knee buckle and was forced to limp off the pitch. Medical exams after the match confirmed that the striker had ruptured a tendon in his right knee and would require surgery.During his first comeback on April 12, 2000, he played only seven minutes during the first leg of the coppa italia final againstLaziobefore injuring his knee for a second time.After two operations and 20 months of rehabilitation, Ronaldo came back for the2002 FIFA World Cup, helping Brazil win their fifth World Cup शीर्षक. Later in 2002 he won theWorld Player of the Yearaward for the third time, and transferred from Inter toरेआल माद्रिदfor approximately €39,000,000, after frequent disputes with Inter coachHéctor Cúper.साचा:FactHis transfer to Madrid was the subject of a media frenzy not just laced with the usual hype because of his reputation, but more so because he was now the third successiveGalactico(or superstar) signed in as many years by the Spanish giants as part of their policy of signing the world's biggest superstar football players in order to maintain their levels of success whilst broadening their reaches of fame.साचा:FactRonaldo was such a well-known signing that sales of his shirt on the day of his signing alone broke all records the world over.साचा:FactProof of his fame came with the fact that even though Ronaldo was sidelined through injury until October 2002, fans continued to chant his name in the stands. Ronaldo scored twice in his debut for रेआल माद्रिद. That same reception was observed on the night of the final game of the season againstAthletic Bilbao, where Ronaldo scored again to seal his first season with 23 league goals (not including the goals in theUEFA Champions Leaguethat included ahat-trickaway atManchester United- in which रेआल माद्रिद still lost 4-3 away but proceeded 6-5 on aggregate.) and theLa Liga Championshipशीर्षक for 2003, which Ronaldo had previously failed to win whilst atFC Barcelona.
On18 January2007it was reported that Ronaldo has agreed terms withA.C. Milanfor a transfer of about $7.8 million.Ronaldo was forced to pay for the remaining period on his contract which tied him to रेआल माद्रिद, only because the latter did not accept to release him, while A.C. Milan were not ready to pay such a sum. On Thursday,25 JanuaryRonaldo flew from Madrid to Milan to watch A.C. Milan in a cup tie againstAS Roma. Statements on the clubs website said that Ronaldo was in Milan for a medical, and that a meeting had been arranged for Monday with रेआल माद्रिद officials to discuss and finalize his transfer to Milan. OnJanuary 26Ronaldo successfully completed his medical tests at the Milanello training complex under the supervision of club doctors, and the transfer completed on30 Januaryand got the jersey number99. He made his debut as a substitute for Milan on11 February2007, during the 2-1 victory overLivorno. The next game atSienaon17 February2007, Ronaldo scored twice and assisted on a third goal in his first start for Milan as they won an exciting game 4-3. In his first season at Milan, Ronaldo scored 7 goals in 14 appearances.After his move to A.C. Milan, Ronaldo joined the list of the few players to have played for both Inter Milan and A.C. Milan in theMilan derbyand is the only player to have scored for both sides in the derby game (for Inter in the 98/99 season and for Milan in the 06/07 season). Ronaldo is also one of the few players to have started forरेआल माद्रिदandFC Barcelona, which also boasts aheated rivalry. However, Ronaldo has never transferred directly between the teams in the derby.
Despite his tremendous success over the past decade, Ronaldo has yet to win theUEFA Champions Leaguein his club career which now looks to be on its final stretch. During the 2006-07 season, though Milan won the2006-07 शीर्षक, Ronaldo wascup-tiedwith Madrid and ineligible to take part. The closest that he has even been was in 2003 when he helpedरेआल माद्रिदto the semi-finals, where they lost toJuventus F.C..
Ronaldo made his international debut forBrazilin 1994, in a friendly match inRecifeagainstArgentina. He went to the1994 FIFA World Cupin the USA as a 17-year-old but did not play. He came to be known then asRonaldinho, sinceRonaldo Rodrigues de Jesus, his older team-mate on the tournament, was too called Ronaldo (and nicknamed Ronaldão to further distinguish them). Another Brazilian player,Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, who is widely known asRonaldinho, would come to be calledRonaldinhoGaúchowhen he joined the Brazilian main national team in 1999.
Voted theFIFA World Player of the Yearin 1996 and 1997, he scored four goals and made three assistsduring the1998 FIFA World Cup. The night before the final, he suffered aconvulsive fit. He was initially removed from the starting lineup 72 minutes before the match but he requested to play and was later reinstated by coachMario Zagallo. Ronaldo did not perform well and he was injured in a collision with French goalkeeperFabien Barthez. Brazil lost the final to hostsFrance3-0.Adrian Williams, professor of clinical neurology at Birmingham University, said that Ronaldo should not have played, saying that he would have been feeling the after effects of the seizure and that "there is no way that he would have been able to perform to the best of his ability within 24 hours of his first fit -- if it was his first fit."Ronaldo won theGolden Shoeas the top scorer in the2002 FIFA World Cupwith eight goals. He scored against every team he came up against except England in the quarter finals and scored two in the final againstGermany, helping Brazil win their fifth World Cup शीर्षक. He also equaledPelé'sBrazilian record of 12 World Cup goals, adding to the four he scored in the1998 tournament.
OnJune 22004, Ronaldo scored an unusualhat-trickfor Brazil against arch-rivals Argentina in aCONMEBOL qualifier for the 2006 World Cup, scoring all three of Brazil's goals from the penalty spot, winning all the penalties himself.
In the2006 FIFA World Cup, although Brazil won their first two group games againstCroatiaandAustralia, respectively, Ronaldo was repeatedly jeered for being overweight and slow (Brazil PresidentLuiz Inacio Lula da Silvaquestioned the national coach "Ronaldo is fat or isn't he?"). Nonetheless, coachCarlos Alberto Parreirakept him in the starting lineup in face of calls to have Ronaldo replaced. With his two goals againstJapanin the2006 FIFA World Cup, he became the 20th player ever to score in three different FIFA World Cups. Ronaldo scored in the1998,2002and2006 FIFA World Cups. OnJune 272006, he broke the all-time World Cup Finals scoring record of 14, held byGerd Müllerafter scoring his 15th World Cup goal againstGhanain the 2006 FIFA World Cup Round of 16. He also equaled a much less talked about mark: with his third goal of the 2006 World Cup, Ronaldo became only the second player ever (Jürgen Klinsmannbeing the other) to score at least three goals in each of three World Cups. However, Brazil was eliminated by France 1-0 in the quarter-finals.
Ronaldo is currently the third highest all-time scorer of the Brazil national football team, with 66 goals. He trails second place Zico, 66, and first place pele, 77.Following the 2006 World Cup, Ronaldo had surgery onJuly 16,2006, to remove calcifications from his lefttibia.
Ronaldo became aसंयुक्त राष्ट्रे विकास कार्यक्रमGoodwill Ambassadorin 2000. "No one should be doomed to a life of poverty, whether by birth or as a consequence of war", Ronaldo said.
Ronaldo has also supported numerous Israeli and Palestinian children's charities and conducted a tour ofIsraeland theWest Bank.
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Ronaldo appeared onThe Simpsonsin the episode "Marge Gamer", where Lisa and Homer were arguing that Lisadivedon purpose in a soccer game. Ronaldo, portrayed as traveling via backflips and intent on exposing floppers, came in and said that she did in fact dive. Upon her receiving a red card he proudly exclaimed "Another family broken up by Ronaldo! Yes!!!"
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