Inside Brazil legend Ronaldo's empire as the two-time World Cup 勝利者 準備するs to sell two clubs: How he nearly BOUGHT Brentford and Charlton, 調印 up Real Madrid 星／主役にするs to his talent 機関... and 追求するing his tennis passion in 退職

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Cristiano Ronaldo may be the first 指名する people consider nowadays when the the 指名する 'Ronaldo' comes up, but the 初めの 見解／翻訳／版's place in football history is 安全な・保証する.

Ronaldo?Lu?s Naz?rio de Lima, to give him his 十分な 指名する, 生成するd headlines since he was a 十代の少年少女 breaking through at?Cruzeiro to the end of his playing career in 2011.

Known as?O Fenomeno -?'The 現象' - and R9, the Brazilian Ronaldo remains a source of inspiration to many of the game's 現在の 星／主役にするs.

With two World Cup 勝利，勝つs, three FIFA Player of the Year and two Ballon d'Or awards, 加える 非常に／多数の honours at the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona and the two Milan 巨大（な）s, Ronaldo could hav e been forgiven for taking his 地位，任命する playing career easily.

Ronaldo, now 47, has instead remodelled himself as an entrepreneur with a 報告（する）／憶測d 逮捕する 価値（がある） of £128million having 追求するd 非常に／多数の 商売／仕事 endeavours since hanging up his boots at?Corinthians.??

On Monday, he 発表するd one of those 商売／仕事 endeavours was coming to an end. The Brazil legend 確認するd he was selling his controlling 火刑／賭ける in?Cruzeiro, the club where he made his 初期の 打開 as a 十代の少年少女.

Ronaldo bought his 初期の 火刑／賭ける in the club for £62.2m in December 2021 through his?company Tara Sports Brasil. At the time Cruzeiro were languishing in the second tier and had 報告（する）／憶測d 負債s of around?£160m.

Under his 所有権, Cruzeiro were 促進するd 支援する to the Brazilian 最高の，を越す flight in 2022 with the 負債s having 報道によれば been （疑いを）晴らすd.

Ronaldo, however, has 直面するd 批評 from 支持者s for a perceived 欠如（する） of 投資. The club, based in Belo Horizonte, finished 14th last season after a difficult （選挙などの）運動をする.

The sale of his 火刑／賭ける led to some fans 持つ／拘留するing up a 旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する reading 'Bye Ronaldo', showing the disquiet around his running of the club.

When 確認するing the sale to 実業家 Pedro Lourenco in a 報告（する）／憶測d £93m 取引，協定, Ronaldo 宣言するd that he had 完全にするd his 使節団.

‘At the end of 2021, when I 発表するd my 意向 to 購入（する） SAF, I said I believed it was possible to take Cruzeiro out of the 危機,’ Ronaldo wrote on Instagram. ‘I didn't 約束 最高の 力／強力にするs, but 維持できる 管理／経営 for medium and long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 growth.

‘In the short 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語, the first results （機の）カム on the field. They were not the result of chance. We work hard outside the field. And you, Blue Nation, far beyond the stands. Active, 現在の, potent. With 発言する／表明する, strength and passion. Defending, 動機づけるing, supporting, 需要・要求するing and 元気づける. We wouldn't have done it without you.

'Two years and four months passed. I can proudly say that we opened doors that were almost の近くにing and others that didn't even 存在する. The 終点 明言する／公表する in which I took over the club is a new page.

‘I made a かかわり合い to you and even though, at the same time, my personal and professional life 現在のd me with new challenges, paths and callings, I remained 会社／堅い in what I 始める，決める out to 配達する here.?

'Only after 完全にするing the 使節団 did I 許す myself to make this difficult but necessary 決定／判定勝ち（する） - 特に as it would 衝撃 the lives of millions of people.’

Ronaldo has also 示唆するd he will look to sell his 火刑／賭ける in Spanish 味方する Real Valladolid, before taking a break from club 所有権.

He 購入（する）d a 51 per cent 火刑／賭ける in the club in 2018, which grown to 82 per cent in the に引き続いて years.

類似の （民事の）告訴s have been raised by?Real Valladolid 支持者s to those raised at Cruzeiro, with the club having been relegated twice from LaLiga in the Ronaldo 時代. Valladolid, however, are curr ently second in the Segunda 分割 and look 井戸／弁護士席 place a second 昇進／宣伝 支援する to the 最高の，を越す flight.

He 示すd their previous 昇進／宣伝 by 実行するing a 約束 to 完全にする a 500 kilometre bike ride from?Valladolid to Santiago de Compostela.

'I 約束d that if we （機の）カム 支援する (to LaLiga), I would do the Camino de Santiago,' Ronaldo said.

Ronaldo and his wife Celine 完全にするd the 大勝する by covering several dozen kilometres each day until they reached their final 目的地.

Ronaldo had 最初 dipped his shoes into 所有権 in 2014 with Fort Lauderdale. He 明らかにする／漏らすd to the 財政上の Times in 2019 that he had been approached to buy English clubs the previous year.

The approach （機の）カム during a three-year （一定の）期間 when he was living in London, with Brentford and Charlton の中で the clubs 示唆するd to the Brazil legend.

'I was very の近くに to buying Brentford five or six years ago,' Ronaldo said in 2022. 'I was very の近くに to doing the 取引，協定.'?

His time living in England, where he learned the language, （機の）カム about as result of one of his other 商売／仕事 追跡s.

Ronaldo 開始する，打ち上げるd the sport 管理／経営 company 9ine Sports and Entertainment upon his 退職 in 2011.

The company was part of a 共同の 投機・賭ける with the world’s largest advertising group WPP, with both owning a 45 per cent 火刑／賭ける. The 残りの人，物 was owned by?Brazilian entrepreneur Marcus Buaiz.?

The Sao Paulo based 商売／仕事 焦点（を合わせる）d on the 2014 World Cup in Brazil ? of which Ronaldo was part of the organising 委員会 ? and the Rio 2016 Olympics.

‘We believe that this １０年間 is definitely the １０年間 of Brazil and Latin America. We also believe Brazil 代表するs a 抱擁する market 適切な時期 for a sports marketing company such as 9ine,’ WPP’s 創立者 Sir ツバメ Sorrell said when 発表するing the 開始する，打ち上げる of the company.

‘Ronaldo is, of course, one of the greatest サッカー players the world has seen. He has been 投票（する）d FIFA's best サッカー player 世界的な three times. Now, thankfully, he will be playing for WPP.’

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The company operated for four years, with Ronaldo striking up a friendship with Sorrell, who encouraged him to move to London.

Ronaldo later moved to buy the Brazilian arm of the sports marketing 機関 Octagon, with 兵器庫 星／主役にする Gabriel Jesus and the Brazilian women’s 国家の team の中で the （弁護士の）依頼人s to have 調印するd up.

The 影響（力） of Ronaldo was in 証拠 when he joined Rodrgyo to 発表する the Real Madrid 今後 as their 最新の （弁護士の）依頼人 in March.

‘Ronaldo is an idol and 言及／関連 for Brazil around the world,’ Rodrgyo said.

‘He 直面するd difficulties, overcame 傷害s and made history at Real Madrid and our 国家の team. He is an example of a trajectory.

‘Since we can't play together on the four lines, let's do this （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する off the field, in the 商売／仕事 world. This is an important step in my career and makes me even stronger and calmer to dedicate myself to the field.’

Another 商売／仕事, R9 資産 管理／経営 and 財政／金融, was also 設立するd by Ronaldo with the 目的（とする） of 申し込む／申し出ing 財政上の advice and support to players during their 商売／仕事 careers.?

His?Fenomenos 創立／基礎 and the Ronaldo 学院, which 支店d out from Brazil to the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, 中国 and Hong Kong have been other long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 事業／計画（する）s led by Ronaldo in his 地位，任命する-playing career.

Several of Ronaldo's 事業／計画（する）s have been given the behind the scenes 治療, 儀礼 of his マスコミ company Beyond Films.

The company partnered with DAZN for the 文書の film ‘The 現象: The rise, 落ちる and redemption of Ronaldo’. The 文書の 詳細（に述べる）d the mystery of what happened to Ronaldo around the 1998 World Cup final, Brazil’s 勝利 in 2022 and other 重要な moments of his playing career.

A DAZN 文書の series 肩書を与えるd 'El 大統領' was also 解放（する）d in 2021, giving 接近 to Ronaldo’s 所有権 of Real Valladolid.

Beyond Films were also 伴う／関わるd in the 開始する，打ち上げる of RonaldoTV, with Brazilian 国家の team 星／主役にするs Casemiro, Richarlison and Lucas Paqueta の中で those to have been interviewed in 最近の months.

Ronaldo, who was 概算の by Forbes to have earned around £200m in 給料 alone during his playing career, has also looked to enjoy life away from the game and 商売／仕事.

Last September, Ronaldo married model and businesswoman Celina Locks in?Ibiza.

It 示すd the third time the ex-footballer has walked 負かす／撃墜する the aisle, after 以前 marrying former footballer Milene.

Ronaldo organised a wedding with model Daniella Cicarelli in February 2005 at a 城 in フラン, although it later transpired they did not 公式に become man and wife because neither had finalised their 離婚s from their previous partners.

They 分裂（する） three months after the 城 儀式 they 法案d as an 公式の／役人 wedding, with Daniella later （人命などを）奪う，主張するing it ended because Ronaldo had been unfaithful to her.

After their 関係 finished, he 結婚する 工学 student Maria Beatriz Antony.

Ronaldo 株 his son Ronald with his first wife Milene, and daughters Maria Sofia, and Maria Alice with his second wife Maria.

He 明らかにする／漏らすd he had a vasectomy after he was 確認するd as the father of Alexander, now 17, in December 2010 に引き続いて a fling with waitress Michele Umezu.

The football legend has 追求するd his 利益／興味 in poker, twice becoming an 外交官／大使 of?PokerStars, 同様に as tennis.