No comparison to today
With crooked teeth: This is what Ronaldo looked like 20 years ago
Updated on July 7th, 2025 – 12:38 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Cristiano Ronaldo has been one of the formative figures in world football for two decades. His look changed over the years. He looked like this earlier.
Although he is now kicking far from top football in Saudi Arabia, Cristiano Ronaldo is still omnipresent among fans and media. His actions are being followed at every turn – and has been for more than 20 years.
In August 2002, the Portuguese completed its first professional catch in the SPORTING LISSABON jersey – at the tender age of 17. Just a year later, the change to the top club Manchester United followed. At the 2004 home European Championship, he first made a name for himself on a big stage at the age of 19. From then on his face was world famous.
Not only as a player, he has made a change in the course of many years: from a promising talent to one of the most successful players in football history. In terms of external appearance, “CR7” also shows clear differences compared to its early years.
At the beginning of his career, when nobody knew how successfully the five-time world footballer and Champions League winner would be, he came rather inconspicuously-with baby face, wild flower mane and crooked teeth.
In a multi -year trial during his time at Manchester United, he first had a braces at Manchester United and reports reported in 2007. The trend of blond strands in the hair, which were announced in the early 2000s, did not stop at Ronaldo.
Today he is known as a perfectly styled professional who pays a meticulous attention to his appearance. A cosmetic surgeon from England now accuses him of having used services in his clinic between 2021 and 2022 without paying. An invoice of £ 40,000 (around 48,000 euros) was not paid. Read more about this here.
But not only does Ronaldo pay close attention to his aesthetics, his diet also plays a crucial role in his athlete life. This helped him to ensure that his biological age, according to doctors, is significantly below his actual.
So it is possible for him to deliver top performances even in the comparatively old age. The external signs of age are also limited – no gray or unusual hair, hardly fold. You can only say: kept well!