Fifteen years ago today, Sporting CP threw on a spindly young lad wearing no.28 of their famous green and white... the rest, as they say, is history ? #ThrowbackThursday até 20 de Julho de 2002, dia em que Cristiano Ronaldo se estreou em Alvalade pela equipa principal do Sporting! O início de uma carreira inigualável ? A post shared by Sporting Clube de Portugal (@sportingclubedeportugal) on Jul 20, 2017 at 6:52am PDTThere is very little that Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro has not achieved in the world of football over his 15 full seasons as a professional footballer, and today, we celebrate his inaugural introduction to the world of football by ranking, on a scale of not-so-great to extremely-great:#15. 2002/03Club: Sporting CPLeague goals (and per game): 3 (0.12) | European goals (and per game): 0 (0.0)Total goals (and per game): 5 (0.16)Trophies won: NILIt's of course too much to expect a 17-year-old kid who played as a touchline-hugging right-winger to have any bigger an impact in his inaugural season as a senior footballer; what he did in that first season, though, was to attract interest from a number of big managers and clubs around the world. Including a certain Mr. Alex Ferguson and Manchester United