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⚽ THE PAST ABOUT THE LIVES OF THE FOOTBALL ⚽                                PLAYERS

🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo 🇵🇹

In the photo you can see Cristiano as a young man and an adult.

Cristiano Ronaldo was born on February 5, 1985 in Santo António, a neighborhood of Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal.

Youngest son of María Dolores dos Santos and the municipal gardener José Dinis Aveiro, who named him Ronaldo in homage to the American politician and actor Ronald Reagan.

He had an older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Liliana Cátia. His great-grandmother Isabel da Piedade was from Cape Verde.

His family has Catholic roots and Ronaldo stated that they lived in poverty having to share a room with his brother and sisters.

they lived in poverty having to share a room with his brother and sisters.

🇦🇷 Lionel Andrés Messi 🇦🇷

In the photo, you can see Messi with his childhood team.

He was born on 24 of June in 1987 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. In your birth weight, it was 3 kilos and 47 centimeters.

He is of Italian descent; his paternal great-grandfather arrived in Argentina in 1883. Raised in a humble family, he is the son of Jorge Horacio Messi, a factory worker, and Celia María Cuccittini, a part-time cleaner.

He has two brothers and a sister. At the age of five, he started at Grandoli, a small team from his neighborhood that his father coached.

In 1995, he went on to train in the youth ranks of Newells Old Boys, a club with which he won the Peruvian Friendship Cup in 1997.