From modest Madeira home to $30M palace: Cristiano Ronaldo's journey

Cristiano Ronaldo was born in 1985 in Funchal, the youngest of four children in a small Madeira home where space was always short. Decades later, he spent more than three years building a mansion in Cascais, Portugal, with Atlantic views, eight bedrooms and an underground garage for his cars. Reported costs ran from about $30 million to €35 million. Then, just weeks after it was finished, reports said he put it up for sale. The reason had little to do with money. It was privacy.What was Cristiano Ronaldo's childhood in Madeira really like?Ronaldo was born on 5 February 1985 and grew up in Santo António, a working-class neighbourhood on the hillside above Funchal. He was the youngest of four, with older siblings Elma, Hugo and Katia. Money was never loose. His father, José Dinis Aveiro, worked as a kit man at the local club Andorinha.