![]() It was his first income: he subsequently went to live inside Sporting's youth academy. He went on a trip to Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, for a three-day trial with Sporting Lisboa: the club immediately signed him for £1.500. In 1997, only 12 years old, he left his native island for the first time. Everything comes at a cost, though: he had to swallow his pride and move to a peripheral club, with virtually no chance to play at the international level anymore.įor 3 years, from 1992 until 1995, a seven years old Ronaldo played for the local squad Andorinha, where his father was the kit man, and later the boy spent two years with the other local side, Nacional. The soccer superstar broke another record in his already milestone-filled lifetime: he is the most paid football player of all time, reaching 1 billion Euro contract. Saudi’s club offered Ronaldo a sheikh-style deal: 200 million Euro per year for the next 5 years. And especially so, when you have a high-life living and a high-maintenance family. But Pecunia non Olet, as ancient Romans said: money does not smell. Especially because, in that same bombshell tv interview, only a few weeks earlier, he ruled out ending his career in some second-tier club outside Europe. Nobody, though, would have imagined he would land in Saudi. ![]() The broadcast sealed his divorce from the club he started his phenomenal career with. So, in January 2023, he escaped again from the UK: he did it throwing bad accusations at his team manager in an explosive interview with British TV celebrity Piers Morgan. CR7, as he is globally known, took off as a footballer at United years before but his recent return back home proved to be ill-fated. It was a dramatic change, in many ways, from cold and grey Manchester to hot and over-sunny Riyadh. The most expensive car in the world was just a starter as the new year brought the football star a much bigger deal: a billion dollar value contract with hitherto unknown Al Nassr football club in Saudi Arabia, not really the most prominent soccer squad in the world. His personal garage hosts a Bugatti Veyron, a Ferrari 599 GTO, and a Lamborghini Aventador. Georgina, as every devoted wife does, knows her husband’s passions: Ronaldo is an avid luxury car collector. ![]() It does not happen to many people, not even to US presidents, to get the most expensive car in the world as a Christmas present: a customized Rolls model shows an average price tag of 500.000 US dollars. She filmed all the scene for the sake of 500 million fans the football star has on social media. His wife Georgina surprised him with an ultra-luxurious car, which came also wrapped in a big red ribbon. On Christmas day, compliments of social media’s global coverage, millions of people saw a speechless Cristiano Ronaldo receiving a very uncommon and exclusive gift: an astonishing Rolls Royce.
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