Ronaldo
Ronaldo in 2007, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima
Place of Birth: Itaguaí, Brazil
Date of Birth: 18 September, 1976
Ethnicity: Brazilian [African, Portuguese]
Ronaldo is a Brazilian professional footballer and business owner. He is widely considered one of the greatest footballers of all time. A striker, he played with Cruzeiro, PSV, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, AC Milan, and Corinthians, and the Brazilian national team. He is president of Segunda Division club Real Valladolid and the owner of Brasileiro Série A club Cruzeiro. He is also known as Ronaldo, Ronaldo Nazário, “O Fenômeno”/The Phenomenon, and R9.
Ronaldo is the son of Sônia dos Santos Barata and Nélio Nazário de Lima. Regarding racism in football, he has said, “I think that all blacks suffer (with racism). I, that am white, suffer because of so much ignorance.” In response to this, his father, a dark-skinned African-Brazilian, stated, “He knows quite well that he is black… In truth, at the time I thought it was some type of philosophy, something in this sense… because he knows that he is black.” A picture of Ronaldo’s mother can be found here.
Ronaldo is married to model and businessperson Celina Locks. He has a son with his former wife, footballer Milene Domingues; a son with Michele Umezu; and two children with his former wife Maria Beatriz Antony. He is Catholic. Ronaldo speaks Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian, and has a good understanding of English.
hes mixed not black the same is bob marley,lenny kravitz,halle barry and others are mixed people not black people.
@maurogomes3193
Ok who exactly qualifies as a black person now a days, because I need to know. I mean what’s the cut off percentage?
non North-American people (like me) use to consider “black” people the ones with fully West African ancestry, I mean a lot of African-Americans look to me more like mulattoes and very different from Sub-Sarahan African immigrants you see everyday in Europe or elsewhere.
I mean black is just a skin colour and not a social construct
@Andrew
Okay I do understand what you’re saying, however one thing does puzzles me. That is why are you guys just hooked on West Africans(being the black ones)? I mean the Blackest people I’ve ever seen were East Africans, Dinka people for example .
“I think that all blacks suffer (with racism). I, that am white, suffer because of so much ignorance.”
I don’t understand what he intended to convey with that quote.
I think he’s a pardo (African, Ameridian and Portuguese) which means tri-racial in Portuguese.
pardo isnt a race u dumb shit, here in brazil they use it wrong to hide black presence in census, also black people can pass as pardo on census
mimimi pardo people are mixed not black.
he doesn’t look just black. he looks mixed.
He’s probably around 35% black.