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My Favorite Player: Jonathan Lewis

Jonathan Lewis My Favorite Player

Welcome back to My Favorite Player, which returns for the season.

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It’s time to find out who inspired Jonathan Lewis to achieve the levels he’s reached to become a professional soccer player.


So far we’ve learned the favorite players of Jack Harrison (Ronaldinho), Khiry Shelton (Thierry Henry),Ethan White (Carles Puyol), Ronald Matarrita (Ronaldo),Sean Okoli (Zlatan Ibrahimovic), Sean Johnson (Edwin van der Sar), Tommy McNamara (Stephen McPhail) and Shannon Gomez (Phillip Lahm).


Today, it’s Lewis’s turn and he goes for the reigning Ballon d’Or holder.


It’s Cristiano Ronaldo…


Jon on Cristiano Ronaldo…


“Cristiano Ronaldo – I like his flair, he’s expressive on the field and he scores goals. He works very hard, he’s a character and he’s a role model for how far hard work can take you.”


Cristiano Ronaldo: Force of Nature


As Jon hinted, some players are touched by the hand of genius and are always destined to be greats, some have to work a little harder at it.


Cristiano Ronaldo is somebody who had supreme talent from very early on in his career when he was just a boy from Madeira, making his way through the Sporting Clube de Portugal youth ranks.


Ever since, he has undoubtedly wrung every drop of talent out himself, transforming from the slight, fey Manchester United winger to the physical specimen he is now.


With frankly ridiculous goalscoring numbers at Real Madrid, he’s one of the two best players of his generation and has won practically every major honor the game has to offer, including the Ballon d’Or on four occasions.


To date, Cristiano has scored more than 500 professional goals.


Status Update


Still only 32, Ronaldo continues to be a key component in the Real Madrid team which has won the UEFA Champions two years out of the last three.     


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Clubs


Sporting CP 2002-03


Manchester United 2003-2009


Real Madrid 2009-Present


Honors


Manchester United

Premier League (3): 2007, 2008 & 2009


UEFA Champions League: 2009


FIFA Club World Cup: 2008


FA Cup: 2004


League Cup (2): 2005 & 2009


Real Madrid

La Liga: 2012


UEFA Champions League (2): 2014 & 2016


UEFA Super Cup: 2014


FIFA Club World Cup (2): 2014 & 2016


Copa del Rey (2): 2011 & 2014


Portugal

European Championships: 2016

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