Cristiano Ronaldo is the most popular player in the world, and he’s handsome and fabulously rich. Think about Cristiano Ronaldo, the audience knows everything, but we tried to find the facts that are not so well known.

Axar.az presents with the Siver Times.

1. Ronaldo — not the name

Footballer name is Cristiano Ronaldo DOS Santos Aveiro, Ronaldo is not a surname, and middle name. His athlete was given in honor of the former US President and actor Ronald Reagan, whose fan was the father of Cristiano.

2. He was from a simple family

Mother Cristiano worked as a cook and my father a gardener. The footballer said that the family was poor and all four children shared one room.

3. He was expelled from school for bad behavior

Namely, because 14-year-old Ronaldo threw a chair at the teacher because, according to the player, “disrespectful behaved”. School Cristiano never returned, and my mother’s advice and concentrated on the sport.

4. He had heart surgery

At the age of 15, Cristiano discovered life-threatening heart arrhythmia, which could have put an end to his career. Then the player is already trained in team sporting. The athlete had an operation on the heart with the help of laser surgery, after only three days after he returned to training.

5. He has no tattoos

Unlike many other sports stars, of Ronaldo not keen on tattoos on his body no one. The player is an active blood donor and in 2008 even became the face of the campaign “red cross”, starring in social advertising under the slogan “I Have no tattoos, because with them you cannot be a blood donor”.

6. In his honor, called the galaxy

A group of scientists from the University of Lisbon, headed by Dr. David Sobrala, in 2015 opened the galaxy, called Cosmos Redshift 7, abbreviated CR7 — the so-called Ronaldo in the world. Scientists have confirmed that this is a tribute to their famous compatriot.

7. It is named after the Madeira airport

In 2016, the Portuguese Madeira airport became an international airport Cristiano Ronaldo. Recall, that it is the birthplace of the athlete. And that the airport has installed a bronze bust of Ronaldo that Internet users considered almost the most funny the world monument and which spawned so many memes.

8. He’s in business

Cristiano puts his millions including in business projects. In 2006 in Madeira, opened the first fashion boutique of the athlete called CR7, and two years ago started to operate its five-star hotel — Hotel Pestana CR7. It is also the birthplace of the athlete.

9. He does not drink or smoke

The fact that Ronaldo does not drink alcohol, as the press writes, is due to the fact that his father was an alcoholic and died at the age of 52. The athlete repeatedly tried to get the father to be treated from addiction, but he never agreed to go to the clinic.

He was drunk every day, it is difficult to talk

— the athlete remembers.

Cristiano sued the Daily Mirror newspaper wrote that he was seen very drunk in a nightclub. The player won the case, and the newspaper paid him compensation.

10. He’s worth a billion

According to the press, any world the club who wants to sign a contract with Cristiano Ronaldo, will have to pay for this pleasure a billion dollars.

11. He is actively involved in charity work

In 2012, Ronaldo sold the won the “Golden boot” for half a million euros to build schools in the Gaza strip. A year later, the athlete sold another prize — the “Golden ball” and raised over half a million Euro was transferred to the Fund Make-A-Wish Foundation, which embodies the wishes of seriously ill children. And this is only part of a long list of generous gestures of the football player over the last few years.

12. His son doesn’t know his mother

Perhaps one of the most mysterious moments in the biography of Ronaldo — the birth of his eldest son in 2010. Still, the athlete does not disclose who the boy’s mother. There were rumors about surrogacy and about the secret affair Cristiano with a certain waitress. All that’s for sure: Cristiano, Jr. was born in USA and his mother from Portugal. According to media reports, even the boy doesn’t know his mother.

It is a reminder that Ronaldo has four children: twins Eva and Matteo gave birth to a surrogate mother, and youngest daughter Alana is a friend of the athlete Georgina Rodriguez.

13. He considers himself a loner

According to Cristiano Ronaldo, he is not particularly sociable.

Among the players I have a few friends. Most of the time I’m alone, I got trust issues, he said in an interview. Among the closest friends of the athlete his older brother Hugo Aveiro and football agent Jorge Mendes.

14. In his body, only 10 percent body fat

This is less than supermodels. The growth of an athlete 1,87 m, weight 84 kg.

15. To Irina Shayk, he met with actress Gemma Atkinson

The British actress said that for a short time dated Ronaldo in 2007.

It was crazy, because wherever he went there photographers. When we parted, I was offered a lot of money for something that I have told about it, but I didn’t want to do that

16. He has a lifetime contract with Nike

Cristiano began working with Nike in 2003, and in 2016 the company entered into with him a lifetime contract, that is, Ronaldo will represent the brand even after retiring from the sport. Before mark entered into such contracts with only two star athletes — basketball players Michael Jordan and LeBron James.