Factbox on Manchester United's Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo after the Premier League champions received an 80 million-pound bid from Real Madrid on Thursday.
MANCHESTER UNITED CAREER
United manager Alex Ferguson signs the largely unknown 18-year-old
for 12.24 million pounds ($20.08 million) in August 2003 after an
outstanding performance against United in a pre-season friendly in
Lisbon.
Named Manchester United's 2003-04 Player of the Year in his debut season, picking up an FA Cup winners medal.
In 2006-07 Manchester United win the title and Ronaldo is named Portugal's Footballer of the Year and England's Footballer of the Year. Is runner-up to Kaka in the European Footballer of the Year poll and third in FIFA World Player of the Year.
Celebrates League and Champions League double in the 2007-08 season, finishing as Europe's top goal scorer with 42 goals and winning several domestic awards including England's player of the season.
Caps 2008 season by being voted World Footballer of the Year having already become just the third Portuguese to win Europe's Ballon d'Or award following Eusebio in 1965 and Luis Figo in 2000.
In 2008-09 helps United to the Premier League title, League Cup, Club World Cup and Champions League final, which they lose 2-0 to Barcelona.
Has scored 118 goals in 291 appearances for United.
NTERNATIONAL CAREER
Makes Portugal debut in 1-0 friendly win over Kazakhstan in August 2003.
Helps Portugal to runners-up spot at the 2004 European championship.
Ronaldo plays a controversial role in the sending-off of England's Wayne Rooney, his Manchester United team mate, in the 2006 World Cup quarter-finals. Television cameras caught him winking at the bench as Rooney was sent off.
EARLY DAYS
Born: Feb. 5 1985 in Funchal, Madeira.
He played his youth football at Nacional before joining Sporting Lisbon in 2002, arch-rivals to his boyhood favourites Benfica.
REAL MADRID
Ronaldo was heavily linked with a transfer to Real Madrid in 2008 resulting in United complaining to football's world governing body FIFA about the Spanish club's courting of him.
