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Debut goal for Cristiano Ronaldo in the Asian Champions League/Sport1
Many throughout world football were surprised last week, when Lionel Messi was crowned as FIFA's player of the year. Cristiano Ronaldo watched the ceremony from home, after finishing the year 2023 with 54 goals - more than any other player in world football, and in an interview he gave to "Record", the Portuguese claimed that he already He doesn't care about personal awards: "I don't believe in them anymore, and not because I didn't win.
There are numbers, and the numbers don't lie.
You can't take away the title of top scorer in the world this year, because it's real, and it makes me happy because the numbers show facts."
About scoring his goals in a weak league, he said: "I've heard people talk like that, but the professionals know how difficult it is to score, between If in Saudi Arabia, Italy, Spain or Portugal.
A gate is a gate.
I am very proud to have beaten players like Arling Holland, Kylian Mbappe and Harry Kane.
If you look at what happened to me at Manchester United and with the national team, people thought I was done.
But the truth is that I had a great time at Al Nasser, and that's why I scored 54 goals."
not going to stop
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So, it doesn't sound like CR7 is planning a comeback to Europe in general or to Portugal in particular any time soon.
"Returning to the Portuguese league would be useless," he said, "I'm 39 in a few days, and I'll play this season and one more in Al Nasser. If everything will be fine at 41 or 42, I don't know. But returning to Portugal is not on the agenda at the moment. I am not surprised by my level at the moment and know that I am capable of scoring many more goals, both in Al Nasser and in the national team."
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