Season after season, Cristiano Ronaldo continues to prove that he is one of soccer’s true greats. A three-time winner of the FIFA Ballon d’Or and the man whose astonishing goal-scoring feats have fired much of Real Madrid’s recent success, he is driven by an insatiable desire to succeed and to improve himself year after year.

Here Madrid-based journalist Luca Caioli tells the inside story of the global superstar, featuring insights from those who know him best: coaches, teammates, girlfriends and even the man himself.

Updated to include all the action from 2015/16, Ronaldo lays bare the career of a modern soccer icon.