5 Things You Didn't Know About Cristiano Ronaldo

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Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the best footballers ever.

#3. Cristiano broke a Diego Maradona record on his first day at Real Madrid

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Ronaldo signed for Real Madrid in 2009.

Real Madrid signed Ronaldo in a world record £80 million deal from Manchester United back in 2009. While this record has been broken has been multiple times over the past 10 seasons, Ronaldo created another record that day that is yet to be broken.

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It is the record for highest attendance at a player presentation ceremony. When Real Madrid unveiled Ronaldo as a Real Madrid player, 80,000 Los Blancos fans packed the Santiago Bernabeu to get a glimpse of their world record signing.

Incidentally, this record belonged to the legendary Diego Maradona before Cristiano. When he had signed for Napoli back in 1984, their Stadio San Paolo was filled with 75,000 fans to welcome the Argentine magician to Napoles.

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