On his 32nd birthday, here's our visit to the Real Madrid forward's birthplace where we traced his journey to becoming the best player in the world
Cristiano Ronaldo has come a long way. European champion with club and country in 2016, fresh from signing a new contract with Real Madrid and winning the FIFA World Player of the Year award, life gets better and better for a forward celebrating his 32nd birthday.
But things were not always this good. Baby Cristiano was an unplanned child, the youngest in a humble family on the Portuguese island of Madeira.