Ronaldo
Brazilian footballer
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| April 30 2024 | Ronaldo agreed to sell his ownership stake in Cruzeiro to BPW Sports company, though he will continue to serve on the club's board of directors. |
| 2023 | Ronaldo was baptized into the Catholic faith. |
| July 2023 | Ronaldo married Celina Locks. |
| January 2023 | Ronaldo announced his engagement to model and businesswoman Celina Locks. |
| December 2021 | Bought a controlling stake in his boyhood club Cruzeiro, investing $70 million. |
| May 2021 | DAZN released the first episode of 'Ronaldo: El Presidente', a six-part series about his presidency of Real Valladolid. |
| 2020 | Named in the Ballon d'Or Dream Team, a greatest all-time XI published by France Football magazine. |
| 2018 | Nike commissioned the Mercurial Superfly VI boots for Kylian Mbappé, inspired by Ronaldo's original 1998 R9 Mercurial boots. |
| 2018 | Inducted into the Inter Milan Hall of Fame and received the Globe Soccer Awards Player Career Award. |
| September 2018 | Became the majority owner of Real Valladolid by buying 51% of the club's shares. |
| June 14 2018 | Ronaldo features at the 2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony in Moscow, Russia. He walks out with a child at the beginning and returns with the official Adidas Telstar 18 World Cup ball. |
| 2017 | Ronaldo's son Ronald was selected for the junior football team representing Brazil in the Maccabiah Games. |
| 2017 | Added as an icon to the Ultimate Team in EA Sports' FIFA 18 video game, receiving a 95 rating alongside other football legends. |
| April 21 2015 | Ronaldo scores a hat-trick in the Match Against Poverty in St Etienne, France, with Didier Drogba. Proceeds went towards African countries affected by the Ebola epidemic. |
| 2014 | Ronaldo played a charity poker tournament against tennis star Rafael Nadal. |
| 2014 | Archive footage featured in the music video 'We Are One (Ole Ola)', the official song of the 2014 World Cup by Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez. |
| 2014 | Ronaldo starred as a mentor in Nike's Risk Everything animated commercial featuring current Nike players. |
| December 11 2014 | Ronaldo became a minority owner of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the North American Soccer League. |
| March 4 2014 | Ronaldo plays in the UNDP's 11th Match Against Poverty against a Zidane XI in Bern, Switzerland, with proceeds helping recovery efforts in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan. |
| April 2013 | Ronaldo became a member of PokerStars SportStar as a keen poker player. |
| January 2013 | Ronaldo is named one of the six ambassadors of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. |
| December 2012 | Ronaldo and Zidane reunite for the Match Against Poverty in Porto Alegre, Portugal, with Zico (Ronaldo's childhood idol) also playing. |
| December 13 2011 | Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane play a charity match against former and current players of the German team Hamburg in the ninth edition of the Match Against Poverty series. |
| June 7 2011 | Ronaldo plays his final international match for Brazil against Romania, playing 15 minutes and partnering with 19-year-old Neymar in attack. Brazil wins the match, and Ronaldo makes a farewell speech to the crowd. |
| February 2011 | Announcement of Ronaldo's farewell match for Brazil, to be played against Romania in São Paulo. |
| February 14 2011 | Announced his retirement from football in an emotional press conference, citing ongoing pain and hypothyroidism as reasons for ending his 18-year career. |
| 2010 | Ronaldo represented Brazil in national team matches during 2010, though no competitive or friendly match details are specified in the provided data. |
| December 6 2010 | Ronaldo confirmed he was the father of Alexander (born in 2005) and stated he had a vasectomy. |
| April 6 2010 | Ronaldo's second daughter, Maria Alice, was born in São Paulo, exactly 10 years after his first son Ronald. |
| February 2010 | Signed a contract extension with Corinthians that would keep him with the club until the end of 2011, and announced his intention to retire after that. |
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