Cristiano Ronaldo Current Affairs, GK & News
Forbes’ list of highest paid athletes
Forbes’ recently released the annual ranking of the world’s highest-paid athletes. Who is the highest-paid athlete of 2022? Lionel Messi. He topped the Forbes list for the second time (the first was in 2019). How much money is earned by Lionel Messi? USD 130 million in pre-tax gross earnings during the past 12 months ending ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2022
Category: Sports Current Affairs
Topics: Athletes • Cristiano Ronaldo • Forbes • Forbes list • Leonel Messi
Sunil Chhetri passes Lionel Messi in international goals
36 years old Indian football, Sunil Chhetri, has surpassed Argentina’s Lionel Messi and has become second-highest active international goal-scorer with 74 strikes. Highlights Chhetri now leads Barcelona star Messi by two goals and is placed above Ali Mabkhout of UAE, who is at third place with 73 strikes. He achieved this feat against Bangladesh in ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2021
Category: Sports Current Affairs
Topics: AIFF Player of the Year • Cristiano Ronaldo • Lionel Messi • Nehru Cup • Sunil Chhetri
Cristiano Ronaldo becomes First Player to Score 50 Goals in Serie A, Premier League and La Liga
The Portuguese captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, has achieved the rare feat of scoring 50 goals each in the three most coveted domestic football tournaments of the world – English Premier League, La Liga and Serie A. With his brace in the match against Lazio in which his team, Juventus won by a margin of 2-1, he ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2020
Category: Sports Current Affairs
Topics: Cristiano Ronaldo • English Premier League • Juventus • La Liga • Serie A
Virat Kholi becomes the first Indian to get 50 million followers on Instagram
The skipper of Indian cricket team Virat Kohli recently became the first Indian to reach the 50 million followers mark on social media platform Instagram. Globally, the official account of Instagram has the highest number of followers, followed by Football star from Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo, who has nearly 200 million followers. Virat has made 930 posts so ..
Topics: Cristiano Ronaldo • Instagram • Social media • Virat Kohli
Sunil Chhetri Brand Ambassador of PUMA
The German multinational company, PUMA has signed the Indian men’s football team captain, Sunil Chhetri as their Brand Ambassador for the next three years. Sunil Chhetri is second only to the Portuguese international Cristiano Ronaldo on the list of active international scorers in the world in football. The Bengaluru FC captain, Sunil Chhetri is the ..
Category: Persons in News
Topics: Brand Ambassador • Cristiano Ronaldo • Germany • Persons in News • Portuguese • Puma • Sunil Chhetri
Messi, Rapinoe won the 2019 Ballon d’Or
The 64th edition of the Ballon d’Or was held in Paris on 2nd, December 2019. Men’s- Out of 28 players nominated on 6th November 2019, Lionel Messi won the award for a record sixth time in his career having won previously in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015. Lionel Messi won by 686 votes, followed ..
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: 2019 Ballon d'Or Feminin • Ballon d'Or • Cristiano Ronaldo • FIFA • FIFA Women's Player of the year • Lionel Messi • Megan Anna Rapinoe • United States • Virgil Van Djik