Cristiano Ronaldo was a portuguese soccer player.
Association football , more commonly known as football or soccer , is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball . Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro , ( [ kɾiʃ ` tjɐnu ʁuˈnaɫdu ] , born 5 February 1985 ) is a Portuguese professional footballer for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Portugal national team .