#4 Ronaldo did not want the Number 7 Shirt
Today the entire world may know him as ‘CR7,’ however initially Ronaldo never wanted the number 7 shirt in any case. Ronaldo needed to wear an indistinguishable number for ‘The Red Devils’, as before coming to Manchester United, he had worn the number 28 shirt at Sporting Lisbon.
And, it was not surprising when the responsibility and affiliation of the number 7 at Old Trafford, intimidated the 18-year-old Ronaldo. This was because a similar number had been worn by legends like Eric Cantona, George Best and David Beckham before him.
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Yet, Sir Alex Ferguson who was the Manchester United manager at that time, had witnessed the potential in Cristiano Ronaldo, and persuaded him to take up the incredible number 7. And, since then he has dominated the sport, known popularly as ‘CR7’.
#3 Broke a Diego Maradona Record
Real Madrid marked Ronaldo in a world record £80 million arrangement from Manchester United in 2009. While this record has been broken on different occasions in the course of the last 10 seasons, Ronaldo made another record that day, which is yet to be broken.
It is the record for highest amount of attendance at a player unveiling ceremony. At that point, when Real Madrid uncovered Ronaldo as a Real Madrid player, 80,000 Madrid fans stuffed the Santiago Bernabeu to get a look at their world record marking.
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By chance, this record had a place with the unbelievable Diego Maradona, before Cristiano Ronaldo. When he had marked for Napoli in 1984, their Stadio San Paolo was loaded up with 75,000 fans to welcome the Argentine mystical performer to Napoles.
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