Cristiano Ronaldo – Portuguese Footballer

The Portuguese professional football player, Cristiano Ronaldo plays for the Portugal national team and the Spanish club Real Madrid. He is the captain of the team and plays in the forward position.

When he is not on the field, Ronaldo is one of the most popular athletes on social media. Called the “king of Facebook”, he has around 110 million followers and counting. In fact, he is the third celebrity to garner over 200 million combined followers on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, alongside Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift.

Every single one of his posts on Instagram and Facebook get around one million interactions. His popularity online helps him with his off-field endorsement deals, earning him a cool $27 million each year.

In 2008, Ronaldo won the FIFA World Player of the Year and Ballon d’Or awards. Then, in 2013, 2014, and 2016, he took home the FIFA Ballon d’Or, which is the most a European player has ever won in the history of the sport. He also received the inaugural Best FIFA Men’s Player in 2016 too.

Ronaldo is often ranked as the best player in the world and thought to be one of the greatest footballers of all time. In 2016, Ronaldo was named one of the 30 most influential people on the internet by TIME magazine.

The masculine name Cristiano is the Portuguese and Italian form of Christian, which is taken from the medieval Latin name Christianus that means “a Christian”. The name Christian and its variants has been used since the Middle Ages, by both men and women.