At one point Madrid considered sending him back to Racing Santander, the club they had signed him from ... stands after miscontrolling a ball in a match against Real Sociedad in 2017.

Cristiano Ronaldo is arguably the greatest player ever to wear the Real Madrid shirt. He is the club's all-time top scorer with 450 strikes in 438 appearances. Ronaldo joined in 2009 and left in 2018.

Real Madrid forward ... Passersby in Madrid took little notice of the scruffily disguised Ronaldo as he casually performed pro tricks with a soccer ball and called out to people to join him.

In a club of giants, where the weight of history presses heavily on every touch of the ball, one man carved out a legend so sprawling that even now, new layers of his greatness continue to emerge. At ...