. Hurrah! Looks like a right laugh. Here are 40 slightly more memorable moments, good and bad (and in no particular order), since his rise to fame as a teenager at Sporting.
1. Ronaldo completely writes off his Ferrari after hurtling into a roadside barrier in a tunnel near Manchester airport (he walks away unscathed).
5. The Madeira sculptor has another go at making the statue, “with disastrous results”.
6. When Nike photoshopped a picture of Ronaldo as a boy (in which he was wearing an Adidas jumper).
7. A genuinely nice moment as Sir Alex Ferguson patiently waits to congratulate Ronaldo after Portugal’s Euro 2016 win.
16. Storming through a mixed zone of journalists after a 2019 Big Cup first-leg defeat to Atlético Madrid, and remarking, “I won five Champions Leagues and these guys zero”.
17. Ronaldo would score a hat-trick in the second leg to overturn the tie and send Juventus to the quarter-finals.
18. This Peter Drury monologue as Ronaldo returns to Manchester United for a second spell.
19. Gary Neville coaches Ronaldo through his first interview in English.
20. When Ronaldo scored this outrageous bicycle kick at Juventus in the 2017-18 Bigger Cup, his strike coming 7ft 8in off the ground.
21. The look on David James’s face, here.
22. Ronaldo’s absurd header in the 2008 Big Cup final (and his penalty miss in the shootout).
27. Same year, same competition (semi-final second leg at Arsenal), also 40+ yards from goal, same result. Oh, and scoring one of the great counterattacking goals later in the same game to put the Gunners to bed.
28. When Steven Taylor called Ronaldo “ugly” in a very 2000s tunnel bust-up.
29. When Real Madrid claimed in 2008 that they had ended their interest in Ronaldo for good.
30. Ah.
31. This 2015 tour of his house in Madrid (which has got nothing on Luís Boa Morte showing up in a Corsa to show us …
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