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Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest footballers of all time. You can talk endlessly about the Portuguese striker's records and awards.

Ronaldo is not one of those who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth. The athlete's family lived quite poorly. Dad was a gardener, and mom was a cook, so there was only enough money for the most basic things. Cristiano was the fourth child in a row - he has two older sisters and one brother. So Ronaldo can only be grateful to his own perseverance and hard work for his success in big sports.

In this article, ORIENT has collected interesting facts about Ronaldo's life in order to share them with readers and once again agree with how unpredictable fate can be and that dedication and self-improvement work wonders.

1) Cristiano Ronaldo got his middle name in honor of his father's favorite actor - Ronald Reagan.

2) Since the age of 11, Cristiano has been at the Sporting boarding school in Lisbon and has seen his family once every three months. Sometimes he and other little football players did not have enough food, and they asked for it from McDonald's workers. When Ronaldo became rich, he tried to find those women to thank them for their kindness.

3) Ronaldo was a hot and impulsive teenager. After moving from Madeira to Lisbon, he studied poorly and spoke a dialect that made the capital's residents laugh. One day he couldn't stand the teacher's mockery about his speech and threw a chair at her. This led to his expulsion from school.

4) At the very beginning of his career, at the age of 15, Cristiano was diagnosed with tachycardia, accelerated heartbeat. Such a diagnosis put an end to sports. However, Ronaldo underwent surgery, and three days later he entered the field.

5) Ronaldo's body fat is only 10% of his body weight, which makes him an ideal runner. He is really one of the fastest athletes, as proved by the tests in which the capabilities of Cristiano and the Spanish sprinter Angel Rodriguez were compared. In a straight line, Rodriguez was ahead of the football player, and then just a little bit, but along a zigzag trajectory, Ronaldo was the first.

6) Ronaldo is one of the few football stars who doesn't get tattoos. This is a matter of principle for him, and this principle is explained by active participation in donation. At the end of the noughties, Cristiano even became the face of the Red Cross Account campaign and appeared in social advertising as part of it, saying: "I don't have tattoos, as they interfere with donation."

7) A named museum has been opened in the footballer's hometown of Funchal. Milestones of life, awards, personal belongings, rare photos — a real museum. Ronaldo was his first visitor and was very pleased.

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