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Ronaldo-Real madrid: A Match Made in Heaven

Cristiano Ronaldo joined Real Madrid from Manchester United on July 6 2009, and the rest as they say, is history!  450 goals, 132 assists, 16 trophies including 4 Champions Leagues and 2 Laliga titles, 4 Ballon d'ors, multiple individual awards, and countless memories. Cristiano Ronaldo is the greatest player to ever play for the Los Blancos.  Ronaldo had joined a struggling Real Madrid side lacking trophies from Manchester United side that had won 3 consecutive Premier leagues and reached UCL final two times in the past two seasons while winning it once. Let us look at Cristiano Ronaldo's achievements with Real Madrid in detail season by season SEASON 09/10  It was Ronaldo's first season with the Los Blancos, so it took him some time to settle, but his season was still better than many players.   Laliga: Ronaldo scored 26 goals and 10 assists in the league, and was third in the pichichi race behind Messi(34 goals) and Higuain(27 goals) while Real finished (96 points...

The Mourinho Era: Real Madrid Inside

When people talk about Jose 'the special one' Mourinho's career as a coach, they don't talk much about his tenure for Real Madrid. But he had one of the best seasons as a coach with Real Madrid: Today we will look at 'The Mourinho Era ' Mourinho had just arrived from the treble winning Inter Milan and everyone had high expectations against a Barcelona side which is considered to be one of the best sides ever to play.   SEASON(10/11) Laliga: In his first season, he was up against Pep Guardiola's Barcelona in the league. Real Madrid fought hard till the end for the title but ended up on the 2nd place only four points behind FC Barcelona. Cristiano Ronaldo was Real Madrid's top scorer with 40 goals followed by Karim Benzema and Gonzalo Higuain. UCL: Mourinho's side qualified for the RO16 remaining on top of the group and unbeaten with 5 wins and 1 draw in a group having teams like AC Milan and Ajax. In the RO16, they were against Lyon and they won with ...