How rich is Cristiano Ronaldo

Ever since he made his debut with Manchester United when he was a fresh faced eighteen year old, Cristiano Ronaldo has been one of the most famous and most talked about soccer players in the world. Now, at the age of thirty one and in the prime of his career, he is consistently in the top five highest paid athletes in the world. He is the highest paid soccer player in the world, and the top athlete in the world when it comes to Twitter followers and Facebook fans. There is debate as to whether he is the greatest soccer player in the world right now, as there’s another man in the top five earning athletes who could also make that claim. Some people also speculate as to whether he may be the greatest soccer player to ever play the game. Whatever the case may be, he certainly knows how to stack the cash. With a mixture of his playing salary and his endorsement deals, Ronaldo has quickly become one of the richest athletes in the world, and he has quite a few years of top-form playing left in him yet. He is considered to be one of the most marketable athletes in the world, and there are legions of kids watching his every move and buying everything he’s seen wearing on the field. Lets take a look at how Cristiano Ronaldo started earning such a massive salary and 

Cristiano Ronaldo’s Net Worth In 2016 – $310 Million

How Did Cristiano Ronaldo Make His Money And Wealth?

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born in Funchal, the sixth largest city in Portugal, on February 5th, 1985. He’s the youngest son of a gardener father and a mother who was a cook. He was raised Catholic, and Ronaldo has said that he was raised in poverty. He started to play soccer as a child, and was signed by the Portuguese team Sporting CP in 1997, when he was only twelve. He joined Sporting’s youth program, and when he was fourteen he decided that he had what it took to make it as a professional soccer player. He and his mother both decided that he should stop focusing on school and instead devote all his energy into becoming the best soccer player possible. At the age of fifteen, he had a surgery to treat a “racing heart,” which could have stopped him from playing soccer altogether. By the age of sixteen, Ronaldo was playing very impressively for Sporting CP. By the age of 18, playing for Sporting’s main team, he had attracted the interest of some of the top teams in the world, including Arsenal, Barcelona, Liverpool, and Manchester United. Manchester United’s coach, Alex Ferguson, said that Ronaldo was one of the most exciting players he had ever seen, and signed the player to his team. His transfer fee to his new team was almost $18 million, which made him the most expensive teenager in the history of soccer. He was somehow the first Portuguese player to ever play for Manchester.

Cristiano Ronaldo was impressive from his first performance with Manchester United, and scored his first goal for team off a free kick a few months later. After constantly improving, he had a breakout year in 2006-2007, scoring twenty goals and winning a league title with Manchester United. In 2007, he started racking up various “player of the year” type awards, and had his salary increased to around $170 000 a week in an extension of his contract with Manchester United. He was a runner up for the European Footballer of the Year award along with Lionel Messi, the second highest paid soccer player. This would begin a good spirited rivalry between the two, who are widely considered to be the two best soccer players in the world and who are said to inspire each other to constantly improve.