As if going to a match at the Bernab��u Stadium to watch Real Madrid wasn't a big enough attraction anyway, the club has now gone and smashed the world transfer record to bring Cristiano Ronaldo to La Liga.

A staggering ��80 million has gone to Manchester United to acquire the World Player of the Year - a sum that the Madrid club consider to be great value for money, considering the skill that the fifa coins kaufen player possesses on the pitch. And, of course, the moneymaking potential he brings off it.

Footballers, of course, always polarise opinion. Fans of one club are notoriously reluctant to praise players from a bitter rival; preferring to promote their own team members. I remember last season, Marca, Real Madrid's mouthpiece, for several weeks proclaiming that Arjen Robben could statistically be shown to be a far better player than Lionel Messi, for example.

Few polarise opinions quite so much as Cristiano Ronaldo, though. fifa 16 kaufen Whilst many are prepared to acknowledge that he is currently the world's best player, fewer people are willing to say equally positive things about the man himself. This despite Sir Alex Ferguson publicly stating that he'd love the player to return to Old Trafford one day and for univseral appreciation that he has spent hours on the training pitches honing his skills. Why is it that so many football supporters want to criticise Ronaldo for 'diving' and histrionics? Let's face it, he's hardly the first footballer to try to get penalties when slightly nudged in the box or to throw a tantrum when substitued, is he?

Famously born in 1985 on the beautiful island of Madeira, in Funchal, the capital city, Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro is the youngest of four children. It says much about his parents that Ronaldo gained his name because of the fact that Ronald Reagan was his chick here father's favourite actor, apparently! Readers are invited to insert their own chimpanzee jokes at this stage. Playing amateur football from the age of eight, he then went across to mainland Portugal after signing for Sporting Lisbon. It was in the friendly against Manchester United that marked the refurbishment of the team's stadium in preparation for Euro 2004, that Ronaldo first impressed the manager of Sporting's opponents that day, Sir Alex Ferguson - who then went on to sign the player for over ��12 million when he was just 18 years old.