RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian soccer superstar Ronaldo de Lima, who plays for Spanish soccer team Real Madrid, broke off with his model girlfriend Raica Oliveira before Christmas and celebrated the new year with another Brazilian beauty, dentist Erika Abreu.

    According to Brazilian newspaper O Globo on Thursday, the striker, known as Ronaldo, met Abreu, who looks a lot like Oliveira during a dentist's appointment to whiten his teeth during a visit to Rio de Janeiro.

    The soccer star then invited the dentist to spend Christmas with his family and the couple then went to Madrid together. From there they traveled to Paris, where Ronaldo has an apartment, to celebrate the New Year.

    The O Globo columnist said that Ronaldo has rented a dental surgery in Madrid where Abreu will continue treating his teeth.