Do not get confused with the Ronaldos! This text is about Cristiano Ronaldo, not this Ronaldo!
Cristiano Ronaldo has gained virtually the whole lot there may be to win in soccer, or soccer to a few of our readers. The 37-year-old famous person has scored greater than 800 profession targets, and has gained the league title in England (3 times), Spain (twice) and Italy (twice).
On December 6 at 7:00 p.m. GMT, Ronaldo leads out the Portuguese nationwide crew within the 2022 FIFA World Cup Spherical of 16 fixture in opposition to Switzerland. Ronaldo has scored in 5 completely different World Cups however has by no means discovered the again of the online in a knockout stage fixture. It might take a courageous particular person to guess in opposition to him eradicating that undesirable statistic from his report this night.
Though finest recognized for his goalscoring prowess and being the gasoline within the fireplace within the debate of who’s the best ever soccer participant, Ronaldo was as soon as a member of Workforce PokerStars! Most individuals consider the “unique Ronaldo” when they consider PokerStars, however Cristiano Ronaldo flew the PokerStars flag again in 2015.
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Rumors of Ronaldo placing pen to paper with PokerStars circulated within the weeks main as much as his official unveiling. Ronaldo posted {a photograph} of himself enjoying with a PokerStars-branded deck of playing cards to his hundreds of thousands of social media followers. On the time, PokerStars mentioned the very fact Ronaldo was enjoying with PokerStars-branded playing cards was merely a coincidence. In any case, the web poker big had solely then just lately added Neymar Jr to their Workforce SportStars roster.
On Could 27, 2015, a put up on the PokerStars Weblog unveiled the signing of Cristiano Ronaldo, then a three-time Ballon d’Or (World Participant of the 12 months) winner (he now has 5 such titles), took to social media to elucidate why he signed with the PokerStars crew.
“I like enjoying for profitable groups, and PokerStars is the proper companion for me. As a model, it’s all the time methods to enhance and keep forward of the curve, and as an athlete, that’s one thing I actually respect.”
“I began enjoying poker a couple of years in the past, and I like the competitors, technique, and enjoyable. I am wanting ahead to taking my sport to the web and stay poker tables and assembly my followers head-to-head. Though soccer is my world, poker has all the time been my sport. I am very excited to hitch the crew.”
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That includes within the #RaiseIt Marketing campaign
One in all Ronaldo’s first duties as a member of Workforce SportStars was to compete in opposition to NBA star Dwyane Wade in a collection of challenges the place they tried to lift the stakes of on a regular basis duties.
Wade posted a video of himself waking up with a watch masks on, reaching ahead and throwing a small basketball over his head straight into the basket fastened on his wall. Ronaldo responded by waking as much as a soccer flying at him and him performing “keepy-uppies” from a seated place earlier than scoring a purpose on his balcony!
Open your eyes @DwyaneWade – that is how I get up # #raiseit
— Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano)
Different challenges included Wade making an omelette by launching the eggs right into a pan from the three-point mark, which Ronaldo blew out of the park with an unbelievable trick shot.
@DwyaneWade . No. Watch. Be taught, #raiseit Ronaldo model. I believe I’ve bought him, do you agree? #… https://t.co/ug1MMdLsEe
— Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano)
Though we by no means bought to see that a lot of Ronaldo’s poker expertise within the stay poker area at a European Poker Tour occasion, he did defeat Breaking Unhealthy star Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman) in a £15,000 charity occasion, elevating funds for Save the Kids in 2016.
We’d not guess in opposition to Ronaldo making an look at a significant poker event sooner or later, even when he’s now not affiliated with PokerStars. Ronaldo strives to develop into the most effective at what he does, so the very fact he has $0 in stay winnings on his Hendon Mob profile and the likes of Neymar Jr ($32,131), “OG” Ronaldo ($45,760), and Gerard Pique ($668,155), have cashed in tournaments, will not sit nicely with him. Nevertheless, he has a protracted strategy to go earlier than he catches anybody on this record of poker-playing soccer stars. Possibly he might begin his poker profession at EPT Prague if issues do not work out on the World Cup? Cristiano?
