nationalcaps birth_date years youthyears caps goals nationalyears image name caption fullname birth_place nationalteam height totalcaps totalgoals nationalgoals youthclubs clubs position article_title
7 8 98 18 september 1976 1990 1997 -- 2002 2002 -- 2007 2007 -- 2008 2009 -- -- 2011 1993 1994 -- 1996 1996 -- 1997 1990 -- 1993 14 46 37 68 127 20 31 12 42 34 49 83 9 18 1993 1996 1994 -- 2011 ronaldo-14-05-2013 . jpg ronaldo ronaldo in 2013 ronaldo luís nazário de lima rio de janeiro , brazil brazil u17 brazil u23 brazil 1.83 m ftin 343 247 5 6 62 são cristóvão são corinthians cristóvão psv barcelona inter milan real madrid milan striker ronaldo

ronaldo

ronaldo luís nazário de lima -lrb- ; born 18 september 1976 -rrb- 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 players 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 at the time .
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 .
