Today Cristiano Ronaldo turns 40 and does not stop marking and dreaming. With the brace made in the overwhelming 4-0 of the Al-Nassr on the Al Wasl, in the AFC Champions League, Funchal’s Portuguese has reached 923 career networks and once again shown his timeless talent.
A thousand quota approaches, but he does not hear it as an indispensable milestone, certainly as it is of his value: “I am the best marker, the most complete. The best of the story? I think so, I have never seen anyone better than me “He said in an interview on Spanish TV ‘Sextta’. How does it succeed at this age? “I still wake up with the desire to train and play. Maybe a little less than before, but it’s my passion, I like what I do.”
It was a pioneer of Saudi football. “I like great challenges”, and then “I left Madeira at 12 years old, I saw countries, cultures … so it was not difficult. I just need to have my family, my children and Georgina next to it.” To those who look at that championship from top to bottom they reply that “he does not know what he is talking about. When I decided to move I didn’t think that the league would grow up so quickly, but I knew that in one or two years he would be at the top, as it is Now “, so much so that he has nothing to envy to the North American MLS, according to CR7.
The rivalry with Messi was more than anything else “a healthy struggle, as between Prost and Senna” https://gazzettadelSud.it/articoli/sport/2025/02/05/sono-migliora-punto-e-basta- Cristiano-Ronaldo-Compie-40-Anni-Dbeaa5a7-945d-4079-aef1 -ff3d3d506f7a/. “We shared the stage of the prizes for 15 years and we always got along-he underlines-. His club and national team and I mine.
Of the many teams for which he played, above all, Remember Real Madrid, “for me the largest club in the world” https://gazzettadodelSud.it/articoli/sport/2025/02/05/sono-il-miglioore- Punto-e-Bastiano-Christiano-Ronaldo-Compi-40-Anni-Dbeaa5a7-945d-4079-aef1 -ff3d3d506f7a/. “I liked playing at Camp Nou (Barcelona stadium, editor’s note), they whistled, I enjoyed it more to mark me There that at Bernabéu “. Of the current stars of Real, he thinks that Mbappé’s difficulties are due to the fact that “he cannot play as a center forward, it is not his position. If I were still at Real I would teach him to play from 9. I am not in the area, appearing in area”. The lack of golden ball in Vinicius did not surprise him “because there is no credibility”, but he disappointed him: “He deserved it, won the Champions League …”. Bellingham “still has a long way to go, Zidane reminds me. He is 21 years old and the whole future in front of him. The boy will be a star”.
One tomorrow without a ball does not think: “I could abandon competitiveness today and I would not regret it. But it would be a shame because I still go very well. I would tell me ‘accidents, I can continue to make a difference for another year or two. That’s why I live a lot in the present and I can’t think in the long term “.
In over five luster of professionalism CR7 has met many coaches. “I learned from all of them”, not least Ancelotti: “Carlo I like very much, he is a spectacular person, a gentleman of football. We won so much together. The pressure to Real is huge and he is used to it”.