 Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos
Aveiro was born on the 5th
February 1985 is a Portuguese
footballer who plays as a
winger for Spanish club Real
Madrid and serves as a
captain of the Portuguese
national team.
 His contract with Real Madrid
is believed to have made him
the highest-paid player in the
world.
 Ronaldo began his career as a
youth player at CD Nacional.
 His successes with the team
led to a move to Sporting Clube
de Portugal two seasons
afterwards and when he was
18-year-old he moved to
Manchester United.
 The following season, Ronaldo
won his first club honour, the FA
Cup, and reached the UEFA
Euro 2004 final with Portugal,
in which tournament he scored
his first international goal.
 In 2008, Ronaldo won his
UEFA Champions League title.
 He was named the FIFA World
Player of the Year.
 Ronaldo de Assis Moreira was
born on the 21st March 1980
in Porto Alegre commonly
known as Ronaldinho or
Ronaldinho Gaúcho, is a
Brazilian footballer who plays
for Italian Serie A side Milan
and the Brazilian national
team.
 He is widely regarded as one
of the most gifted footballers of
his generation.
 Prior to his move to Milan, he
played for Paris SaintGermain, and FC Barcelona,
with whom he won his first
Champions League in 2006.
 Ronaldinho's football skills
began to blossom at an early
age, and he was first given the
nickname Ronaldinho because
he was often the youngest and
the smallest player in youth
club matches.
 He developed an interest in
futsal and beach football,
which later expanded to
organized football.
 His first brush with the media
came at the age of thirteen,
when he scored all 23 goals in
a 23-0 victory against a local
team Ronaldinho was
identified as a rising star.
 Lionel Andrés Messi was born
in 24th June 1987 is an
Argentina footballer who
currently plays for La Liga
giants Barcelona and the
Argentine national team.
 Messi is considered to be one
of the best football players of
his generation, having
received several Ballon d’Or
and FIFA World Player of the
Year nominations by the age of
21.
 His playing style and ability have
drawn comparisons to football
legend Diego Maradona, who
himself declared Messi his
"successor".
 Messi began playing football at a
young age and his potential was
quickly identified by Barcelona.
 Messi was the top scorer with six
goals, including two in the final
game of the 2005 FIFA World
Youth Championship.
 In 2008, in Beijing, he won his first
international honour, an Olympic
gold medal, with the Argentina
Olympic football team.
 Alessandro Del Piero, was
born on the 9th November,
1974 in Conegliano Veneto is
an Italian World Cup-winning
footballer who plays for Serie A
club Juventus.
 Along with three awards in
Italy for gentlemanly conduct
he has also won the Golden
Foot award, which pertains to
personality and playing ability.
 Del Piero usually plays as a
supporting-striker and
occasionally between the
midfield and the strikers,
known in Italy as the
“trequartista" position.
 Del Piero has become famous
over the years for scoring from
a special "Del Piero Zone",
approaching from the left flank
and curling a precise lob into
the far top corner of the goal.
 On April 6, 2008, Alessandro
Del Piero became the all-time
highest-capped Juventus
player, ahead of Juve legend
Gaetano Scirea.
 He is in sixth place in the
UEFA Champions League alltime goalscorer records.