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Their complete name is Ronaldo Luis Nazário of Lima, known worldwide as Ronaldo, he was born in Río de Janeiro, Brazil, in September 22 of the year 1976.
At the present time he is one of the most grateful soccer players worldwide to have had a transcendent step in several of the most powerful European teams in the world.
Ronaldo debuted in the first category soccer in the Cruzeiro club of Brazil with single 17 years old, because to that age, and a previous year also, with so single 16 years old, he already impressed to the whole country and the world press for their spectacular intervention in the Brazilian selection sub-17, where he had almost marked 60 goals in only 56 games, something completely impressive and made by which began to be known worldwide in the time as "el fenómeno" and already big teams like PSV Eindhoven of Holland was interested in him.
In the year 1994 Ronaldo incorporates finally in the Dutch team PSV Eindhoven and he transforms into the maximum scorer of the Dutch league. After this spectacular step for the Dutch soccer of the years 1994 and 1995, Ronaldo moves to the soccer of Spain after incorporating to Barcelona FC.
In the Spanish league, one of the most noted of the world, Ronaldo gets the number of 35 goals in a total of 37 games, and it achieves to be rewarded with the title of better player of soccer of the world in Barcelona and the best player in the world for FIFA during two followed years. After their step for the Spain soccer, in the years 1996 and 1997, Ronaldo passes to the Italian soccer incorporating to the Inter of Milan.
Already in the soccer of Italy, in the year 1998, year of the soccer World cup in France, Ronaldo crosses an emotional strong crisis that bears a series of lesions mainly in his knee that maintain him outside of the game field during almost 20 months.
Ronaldo returns professionally to the stadiums in the World cup of Korea - Japan of the year 2002 with a physical very high state and having an excellent participation in the World cup that makes it win again the FIFA prize to the best player.
After this important appearance in the World cup of the year 2002, Ronaldo leaves the Italian soccer to return to the soccer of Spain, to the Real Madrid club, one of the most important reasons for this change was a discussion with the trainer of the Inter, the Argentinean Héctor Cuper.
At the present time Ronaldo is part of the FIFA Top100 that lists the best 100 soccer players in the world (alive) and he plays in the Spanish Real Madrid team.
In the recent world cup Germany 2006, in spite of the initial critics and as he commented the international press its 'not well physical state', Ronaldo demonstrated to be a enormous scorer and a big of the world soccer, after marking 8 goals in the 5 games in those that Brazil played, and to reach the world record of goals in world cups, equaling the German Gerd Muller with 14 goals.
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