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Portugal football legend Cristiano Ronaldo has hit another historic milestone in his illustrious career. He has become one of a few group of players to reach four figures in senior appearances. Ronaldo started for Juventus against SPAL in Serie on Saturday in his 1,000th appearance for club and country and scored in his 11th consecutive Serie A game. By doing so, he equaled a Serie A record currently held by Gabriel Bautista and Fabio Quagliarella. Cristiano began his career at Sporting CP in his home country Portugal, then moved to the Premier League in 2003, joining Manchester United. He won three Premier League titles and one Champions League title in 2008. For the five years he spent at Manchester United, he made 292 appearances. From the Premier League, Ronaldo moved onto La Liga in 2009 where he spent the most part of his professional career. He made 438 competitive appearances in Real Madrid colors, and became the club's highest-ever scorer in just 9 years, with 4...

Cristiano Ronaldo and girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez and their kids live a lavish lifestyle at Ronaldo's mansion in Turin, with his €33.5 million annual salary and income from other endorsements and investments. According to reports citing Spanish television channel Telecinco, Ronaldo gives his girlfriend a monthly allowance of €100,000 to fund her lifestyle. Sounds like a lot but the Juventus striker earned €100 million last year according to Forbes. The Juventus ace also offers his 26-year-old girlfriend luxury holidays and expensive jewelry. Georgina is the mother of his two-year-old daughter Alana Martina. Being a stay-at-home mum, she also raises Cristiano's other three kids - Cristiano Jr and surrogate twins Eva and Mateo. Cristiano's wife-to-be also earns a considerable amount of money from sponsored Instagram posts. She reportedly earns €7,882 per post she makes to advertise a product. Georgina met Cristiano in 2015, after getting a job at a Gucci store in...

Cristiano Ronaldo may have turned 35, but he's still as lethal in front of a goal post. He's been in top form for Juventus scoring in straight 11 league games. In a recent interview with Catalan sports daily Mundo Deportivo, he was questioned on several themes, including Cristiano Ronaldo (as expected). Messi's opinion on Ronaldo's recent performances was sought. Messi who believes Ronaldo has made scoring his obsession isn't surprised to see the Portuguese star scoring as much as he does. "It's normal that he continues to score, he is a predatory striker, he loves to score, any day he plays he will score," Messi said. "He has many good attributes as a forward and at the minimum he converts." He was asked about Cristiano's transfer to Juventus. He was asked, "Have Real Madrid lost a great deal with Cristiano's departure?" Leo replied, "They have lost a great source of goals. That's something obvious b...

Barcelona maestro Lionel Messi is back to scoring after a mini 4 La Liga games drought. On Saturday, Messi scored four goals in Barcelona's 5-0 rout of Eibar in their most recent La Liga outing. Messi scored his first 14 minutes into the game - a brilliant individual goal in which Messi danced past three players to find the back of the net. Messi clinically converted a Sergio Busquets pass in the 37th minute in his second goal. He completed his goal treble two minutes later - a tap-in of a good pass by Ivan Rakitic.  In summary, Messi registered a spectacular hat-trick in the space of 26 minutes. Barcelona's latest signing Martin Braithwaite provided the assist for Messi's fourth goal. Arthur Melo scored Barcelona's fifth in the 89th minute, netting a rebound shot by Martin Braithwaite. Messi has now scored 48 hat-tricks in his club career (excluding Champions League and others), surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo's hat-trick total of 47. Messi is also La Lig...

US computer scientist Lawrence "Larry" Tesler, the scienist behind cut, copy and paste has passed away at the age of 74. His death was announced on Twitter on Wednesday, February 19th 2020, by Xerox, where he spent a partion of his career. In the tweet, Xerox said: "The inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more was former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler. Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas. Larry passed away Monday, so please join us in celebrating him." "Tesler created the idea of 'cut, copy, & paste' and combined computer science training with a counterculture vision that computers should be for everyone," the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley tweeted on Wednesday. Tesler was born in New York, in 1945. He studied computer science at Stanford, where he specialized in human-computer interaction. He began his career with Xerox (the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He would later em...

Beards are more than a confidence booster and a good source of attraction for testosterone-chasers aka ladies. There are a host of proven health benefits to keeping a beard. Read on as we detailly explore the amazing health benefits beards provide. 1. Beards can protect a man's face from damaging sun rays. Dermatoheliosis/photoaging describes the damage the skin suffers as a result of chronic UVA and UVB exposure. Beards are reportedly able to block up to 95% of these harmful sun rays. 2. Beards keep your face moisturized. The sebaceous glands underneath the skin excrete oils that moisturize the skin. Men who do not keep beards have their skin constantly exposed to drying from the wind or the sun, and are more likely to suffer from skin conditions related to dryness. With a beard, the moisture provided by oils excreted from the sebaceous glands is locked in and the skin is healthy and nourished. 3. Beards prevent shaving side effects such as acne flare-ups, ingrown hai...