Cristiano Ronaldo's early years.


On February 5, 1985, in the São Pedro parish of Funchal, the capital of the Portuguese island of Madeira, Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born. He grew up in the nearby parish of Santo António. He is the youngest and fourth child of José Dinis Aveiro, a municipal gardener at the Junta de Freguesia of Santo António and a part-time kit man for the football team Andorinha, and Maria Dolores dos Santos Viveiros da Aveiro, a cook and housekeeper in the hotel sector. African-born Isabel da Piedade, his paternal great-grandmother, was born on the island of São Vicente in the Portuguese Cape Verde region and came to Madeira Island when she was sixteen years old. Hugo is his older brother, and Elma and Liliana Cátia "Katia" are his two elder sisters. His father was a huge admirer of actor and US President Ronald Reagan, thus he was called after him. Due to her poverty, her father's drunkenness, and the fact that she already had too many children, his mother disclosed that she intended to abort him; however, her doctor declined to carry out the procedure. Ronaldo was up in a poor Roman Catholic family where he shared a room with all of his siblings.

Ronaldo spent two years with Nacional after playing for Andorinha, where his father was the kit man, from 1992 to 1995 as a young player. After a three-day tryout in 1997, at the age of twelve, he was recruited by Sporting CP for a cost of £1,500. After that, he relocated from Madeira to Lisbon in order to enrol in Sporting CP's youth programme. At the age of 14, Ronaldo felt he could play semi-professionally and, after struggling with his schoolwork at Escola EB2 de Telheiras, his school in the Telheiras neighbourhood of Lisbon, he agreed to stop his education and devote all of his time to football with his mother and Sporting CP tutor Leonel Pontes. Despite residing in the Lisbon region and being apart from his Madeiran family, he had a difficult time in school and only finished the sixth grade. Although he was well-liked by his peers, he was kicked out of the school after hurling a chair at his instructor, whom he said had "disrespected" him. He was given a tachycardia diagnosis a year later, which may have required him to give up football. Ronaldo had heart surgery in which his resting heart rate was changed by cauterising several cardiac channels into one with a laser. A few days after the procedure, he returned to training after being released from the hospital. Dolores Aveiro, the mother of Cristiano Ronaldo, said in a 2021 interview for Sporting CP's official television channel (Sporting TV) that her son would have been a bricklayer if he hadn't turned pro. 

Ronaldo looked up to the Brazilian football players Ronaldinho and Ronaldo Nazário as a child, calling them "a beautiful history in football."

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