Five-time Ballon d'Or winner, Cristiano Ronaldo will not be able to catch up with Lionel Messi's record (8) for the supreme award. However, Ronaldo is the top scorer in activity with his 902 goals and intends to reach the crazy mark of 1000 goals. This will be his big goal before a retirement that even he can no longer deny now.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 900th goal during the October international break in the colors of Portugal. The legend of Real Madrid with 450 goals has scored two new goals since then and could continue to write his legend by scoring plenty of other goals. However, although he himself expressed this objective of reaching the 1000 goal mark, Ronaldo has begun the process of ending his career, he who will celebrate his 40th birthday on February 5.
“I said publicly that I wanted to achieve the thousand goals”
“It’s funny, when I arrived in the national team at 18, I had a dream: to make my debut. Then I went to 25 selections, later to 50… Then I thought why not reach 100, a round three-digit number. Then I started thinking why not 150 and. 200. For me, that’s a great feeling. I'll be honest, I'm responsible for this. I have said publicly that I want to achieve the thousand goals and now it seems like I only want to achieve these thousand goals. My goal is to live in the moment and see how my legs react. If this thousand arrives so much the better, otherwise no one has scored more goals than me, so…”. said Cristiano Ronaldo during the ceremony Platinum Award these last few hours.
“See the response my legs will give me in the coming years”
In comments reported by West France et ESPNthe striker of the Portuguese selection and d'Al-Nassr explained that his goal could be accomplished if his legs allowed it. “I can no longer think about what I said publicly, that I wanted to achieve 1,000 goals. But it seems that everything is easy now, since last month I reached 900. It's about living in the moment, enjoying it, seeing the response that my legs will give me in the coming years.”
