Cristiano Ronaldo’s net worth: Professional footballer who plays for Real Madrid and the Portugal national team, Cristiano Ronaldo has a net worth of $400 million.
Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese football player who has managed to dominate the field for quite a time now. Born as Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro on February 5th, 1985 in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, Cristiano currently plays for the Real Madrid football club. He also serves as the captain of Portugal’s national football team.
Cristiano started getting set for his football career at the age of eight. He later left school to entirely focus on football when he was fourteen. With a lot of passion and determination, Ronaldo has become one of the greatest footballers in the world. He has severally been ranked as FIFA world player of the year. Fighting his heart condition, racing heart, which didn’t allow him to play football at the age of fifteen, Cristiano underwent an operation, went to London after some time to seek training and has never looked back.
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Ronaldo was initially invited by Arsenal for training but he ended being a team player of Sporting CP for a year from 2002. Later, Cristiano saw big fame, money and stability as a football player. This was after he was bought by Manchester United. He played for Manchester United for six years starting from 2003 and jumped to Real Madrid in 2009. Cristiano has garnered many prestigious football player awards. He has also helped his team win two FIFA Club World Cups. He won the trophy with Manchester United in 2008 and with Real Madrid in 2014.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s Salary and Net Worth
Initially, Cristiano was earning a salary of $45 million annually from his rocketing football career. The figure climbed higher after the soccer star won Euro 2016, the Champions League and the 2016 Ballon d’Or. Ronaldo didn’t only sign a new contract to extend his stay in Real Madrid in November that year. He also renewed and started several sponsorship deal and business ventures.
While he secured a contract extension with Real Madrid which positioned him to earn over $50 million for each of the four years duration of the contract, he penned a lifetime deal with Nike. The Nike deal was worth $1 billion. Although details of the lifetime deal aren’t known to the public, it circulated that the Real Madrid star among other benefits received a $100 million signing bonus. Also, talks about the Nike deal being unnecessarily huge has been dismissed by an estimate which pointed out that Ronaldo’s social media presence alone was worth an incredible $474m to Nike in 2016.
Apart from Nike, it’s known that the Portuguese footballer has lucrative endorsement deals with other prominent establishments like Armani, Tag Heuer, PokerStars and Castrol. He has been involved in many endorsements and advertisements which earn him extra money to meet his extra lavishing lifestyle.
Beyond being the face of several brands, Ronaldo created his own brand – CR7 – which is devoted to underwear/clothing line and other home products.
More to that, Ronaldo has two hotels named Pestana CR7 in Lisbon and Funchal, Portugal. In addition to those, he owns multimillion-dollar mansions in Madrid, Spain, and U.K.
Sometime in 2016, the Spanish club forward dived into gyms in partnership with US health club chain, Crunch to launch CR7 clubs. The first CR7 Fitness opened in Madrid and is now branching out to the rest of the world.
Based on the foregoing, Forbes ranked Cristiano Ronaldo 5th in its 2017 list of the world’s highest-paid celebrities. The American business magazine quoted $93 million as his earning.
Ronaldo is the most popular athlete in the world. He has 275 million social media followers. His fans’ quest to know the worth of everything he owns triggered several estimations of Cristiano Ronaldo’s net worth. Some of the estimates can’t be substantiated as they are clearly guesswork. For now, Cristiano banks a net worth of $400 million.
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Cristiano Ronaldo Family – Girlfriend, Son
In August 2017, the footballer for the first time shared a picture of his entire family together. In the picture, he posed with his pregnant girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez, his seven-year-old son Cristiano Junior and his new twins Mateo and Eva.
Quick Facts about Cristiano Ronaldo – Age, Body Statistics
Full Name: Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
Profession: Professional Football Player
Height: 6ft
Weight: 80 kg
Ethnicity: Portuguese, Moroccan
Nationality: Portuguese
Date of Birth: February 5th, 1985
Place of Birth: Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Marital status: Single
Astrological sign: Aquarius
