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Early life

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born on 5 February 1985 in the S�o Pedro
parish of Funchal, the capital of the Portuguese island of Madeira, and grew up in
the nearby parish of Santo Ant�nio.[11][12] He is the fourth and youngest child of
Maria Dolores dos Santos Viveiros da Aveiro, who worked as a cook in the
hospitality industry and a cleaning woman,[13][14] and Jos� Dinis Aveiro, a
municipal gardener at the Junta de Freguesia of Santo Ant�nio and part-time kit man
for football club Andorinha.[15][16][17] His great-grandmother on his father's
side, Isabel da Piedade, an African woman, was born in the island of S�o Vicente,
in what was then Portuguese Cape Verde, and moved to Madeira Island at 16.[18][19]
He has one older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Liliana C�tia
"Katia".[20] He was named after actor and U.S. President Ronald Reagan, whom his
father was a fan of.[21] His mother revealed that she wanted to abort him due to
poverty, his father's alcoholism, and having too many children already, but her
doctor refused to perform the procedure.[22][23] Ronaldo grew up in an impoverished
Roman Catholic home, sharing a room with all his siblings.[24]

As a child, Ronaldo played for Andorinha from 1992 to 1995,[25] where his father
was the kit man,[15] and later spent two years with Nacional. In 1997, aged 12, he
went on a three-day trial with Sporting CP, who signed him for a fee of �1,500.[26]
He subsequently moved from Madeira to Lisbon to join Sporting CP's youth system.
[26] By age 14, while struggling with his school duties and responsibilities in
Escola EB2 de Telheiras, his school in the Telheiras area of Lisbon, Ronaldo
believed he had the ability to play semi-professionally and agreed with his mother
and his tutor at Sporting CP, Leonel Pontes,[27] to cease his education to focus
entirely on football.[28][29] With a troubled life as a student[30] and although
living in Lisbon area away from his Madeiran family,[31][32] he did not complete
schooling beyond the 6th grade.[33][34] While popular with other students at
school, he had been expelled after throwing a chair at his teacher, who he said had
"disrespected" him.[28] One year later, he was diagnosed with tachycardia, a
condition that could have forced him to give up playing football.[35] Ronaldo
underwent heart surgery where a laser was used to cauterise multiple cardiac
pathways into one, altering his resting heart rate.[36] He was discharged from the
hospital hours after the procedure and resumed training a few days later.[37] In
2021, Cristiano Ronaldo's mother, Dolores Aveiro, stated in an interview for
Sporting CP's official television channel (Sporting TV) that her son would be a
bricklayer if he hadn't become a professional football player.[38]

Growing up, Ronaldo idolised the Brazilian footballers Ronaldinho and Ronaldo
Naz�rio, and has described them as leaving "a beautiful history in football".[39]

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