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Ronaldo is currently building a lavish mansion in Quinta da Marinha, Portugal. The construction of the mansion, which is being dubbed his retirement sanctuary, is set to be completed in June 2023. It has been reported that the five-time Ballon d’Or winner is spending an eye-popping £17 million to build the perfect home for his family. However, despite the huge budget, things have not been flowing as smoothly as anticipated....

The Real Madrid star, 30, closed last week on 2,509 square foot loft on Fifth Avenue, paying $18.5 million for the Trump Tower apartment, the New York Post reported. MORE: World’s highest-paid athletes | Ronaldo’s career in photos Ronaldo has been linked to moving to Major League Soccer when his Real contract expires in 2018. The home purchase adds fuel to the speculation that he could join international stars Frank Lampard, David Villa and Andrea Pirlo with New York City FC....

Ronaldo recently made a headline-grabbing move to Al-Nassr. The transfer marked the first time the Portuguese superstar has stepped outside European football. The 37-year-old is on a mega contract and is set to earn around €200 million per year. A record-breaker throughout his career, Ronaldo might have the record of becoming Al-Nassr’s top goalscorer on his radar. Majed Abdullah is the current holder of the record with 189 goals in 194 games....

In case you didn’t know… After nine years at the Bernabeu, Ronaldo left the Los Blancos side in a surprising €100m transfer to Serie A side Juventus this summer. While the Portuguese did not confirm his reasons for leaving the club, Real Madrid had released a statement saying the transfer was “at the will and the request of the player”. The statement also saw the club thanking Ronaldo for his services: “Real Madrid would like to express its gratitude to a player who has proved to be the best in the world and who has made this one of the most brilliant times in the history of our club....

Ronaldo’s near-miss transfer to Juventus was revealed by Gianni di Marzio. The outspoken character of Serie A is now an advisor at Palermo, but was a scout with Juventus in 2002 and was responsible for eyeing up Ronaldo. In an interview with La Repubblica, he refelcted on other near-misses as well, saying “Negotiations with [Zlatan] Ibrahimovic and [Carlos] Tevez had finished [badly] with Juve, but I suggested [Javier] Mascherano and, in 2002, Cristiano Ronaldo”...

Man City weigh up goalkeeping options The 32-year-old posted a picture of himself on Instagram posing alongside the car which he splashed out on after winning Euro 2016 with Portugal last summer. The Bugatti is the world’s fastest road car with a top speed of 268 miles per hour and is believed to cost in the region of £1.7 million. This is not the first time Ronaldo has shown off his car which clearly holds a very special place in his affections....

The Portuguese superstar erupted for four goals in the second half of Madrid’s 7-1 victory, and the first two were definitely the kind of “did-you-see-that-shot?” goal that blows up social media. PHOTOS: Ronaldo’s path to 500(+) goals | MORE: Ronaldo to MLS? The 31-year-old forward got things started with a powerful blast that showed he’s still got plenty of leg. Ronaldo added his second score on a free kick that left the keeper almost flat-footed:...

However, he was surprisingly sold to Arsenal in the summer of 2013, a move that angered Cristiano Ronaldo. Ozil’s vision and technique made him a unique player in world football at the time, and his telepathic understanding with Cristiano Ronaldo saw the two linkup with perfect synergy. Cristiano Ronaldo’s partner in crime Speaking to Spanish publication AS after Ozil’s departure, Cristiano Ronaldo claimed that the German international was the one who knew his best moves in front of goal....

“We’re seeing it go under four bucks in more and more places, but not everywhere and, of course, we want to see it continue to go down past that,” Buttigieg told Mika Brzezinski during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday. The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline is $4.139, according to the American Automobile Association. That’s down from $4.81 a month ago, but still about $1 more than it was in August 2021....

Second-half goals from Luka Modric and Ivan Perisic saw Croatia advance to the next stage of the tournament. Scotland, on the other hand, became the fourth team to be eliminated from the tournament. Both countries came into the game needing a win to keep their Euro 2020 dream alive. They played with drive and intensity in the opening stages of the game. Croatia were more purposeful with their passing and kept possession of the ball for large spells....

Friday’s action comes after crowning champions in the Teens and Masters divisions Thursday. Here’s everything you need to know to follow along. MORE: Must-see CrossFit Games photos | Sydney Sullivan steals show | Julie Foucher’s courageous effort Where can I watch CrossFit Games competition for Friday’s events online? Friday’s events are available through WatchESPN live beginning at noon ET, but will be televised this weekend. Additional live coverage is being streamed by The CrossFit Games on YouTube....

In a post shared on Reddit’s Am I The A****** (AITA) subforum, user SuspiciousSkins said his brother and sister-in-law have had six miscarriages. “That sucks, I know, I’m not discounting that at all.” A miscarriage, also known as an early pregnancy loss or a spontaneous abortion in the U.S., is typically defined as the loss of a baby before the 20th week of pregnancy, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....

Justice Manmohan, while agreeing to hear the case, posted it for May 26. Approaching the court, the Kerala-based Navalokam Samskarika Kendram of Kottayam contended that Maheshwari was selected for the Arjuna Award in 2013. The award, however, was cancelled at the last minute. The plea asked the court to pass direction to the central govenment to confer the award on Maheshwari as decided by the selection committee and the sports ministry in 2013 or to consider him in 2014....

It seems that one of rock’s most cherished provocateurs is in the midst of a whopping makeover, both personal and professional. Love is now acting, not acting up. Earlier this year the singer did cameos as a downtown party girl in ““Basquiat’’ and as a waffle-house waitress in ““Feeling Minnesota,’’ a muddy road movie with Keanu Reeves and Cameron Diaz. Now there is speculation–hopeful, maybe, but not ludicrous–that she will get an Oscar nomination for her transfixing role as stripper turned junkie Althea Flynt in Milos Forman’s ““The People vs....

The 25-year-old last week exited Camp Nou in a world record transfer to Paris Saint-Germain. Barca now have €222 million to spend, and have already set their sights on Liverpool’s Coutinho and Borussia Dortmund’s Ousmane Dembele. Coutinho to join Barca before September 1 - 6/4 with dabblebet A host of other big stars have also been linked to Barcelona, including Juventus Paulo Dybala, Monaco’s Kylian Mbappe, Villarreal’s Roberto Soriano and Real Sociedad’s Inigo Martinez....

Griffin was arrested on Sunday and charged with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful entry, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced Sunday. An affidavit said the FBI had received a tip on January 9 that Griffin—an Otero County commissioner—was at the Capitol on January 6 and had vowed to return on January 20 to place a flag on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk....

The documents, obtained by the Washington Post, said that the Delta variant, initially found in India, is not only as contagious as chickenpox but also more contagious than the common cold, flu, smallpox and the Ebola virus. It cited studies conducted in Canada, Singapore and Scotland that found the Delta variant is more dangerous than the Alpha variant, first discovered in the United Kingdom, in regards to the risks for intensive care and death alongside hospitalization....

That makes the tribe the largest in the nation, with Cherokee enrollment now second, at 392,000. However, a Cherokee tribal spokeswoman told the Associated Press that Cherokee numbers are also on the rise, with about 200 more applicants per month than average. Tribal governments received $4.8 billion from the CARES Act based on federal housing population data for tribes, according to a spending breakdown. The U.S. Treasury Department recently revised its methodology after some said it was badly skewed....

There had been some speculation prior to the announcement that scientists who were involved in the development of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines would be recognized by this years’s award. But in the end, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet decided to give the award to Julius, an American at the University of California, San Francisco, and Patapoutian—a Lebanese researcher with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California. According to a tweet from the Nobel Prize account, the “seminal discoveries by this year’s #NobelPrize laureates in physiology or medicine have explained how heat, cold and touch can initiate signals in our nervous system....

A live-action adaptation of One Piece has been a going concern for years, which is to be expected for one of the most beloved ongoing media franchises in modern history. The series, written by Eiichiro Oda, has outlasted most of its competition and remained popular for over twenty years, recently celebrating the series’ 1000th chapter. RELATED: Cowboy Bebop Review Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop is a disaster in every conceivable way. Though it has its defenders, the ten-episode season abandons everything special about its source material in favor of a generic mess....