Portugal and Al Nassr star ahead says he’s targeted on having fun with soccer and successful video games for his workforce.
Cristiano Ronaldo insists he’s targeted on being the proper workforce member at his Saudi Professional League membership Al Nassr slightly than amassing extra particular person accolades within the twilight of his profession.
The 39-year-old scored in Al Nassr’s 2-1 win over Al Rayyan of Qatar of their AFC Champions League Group B match on Monday.
It was the membership’s fourth successive victory in all competitions beneath new coach Stefano Pioli, who changed Luis Castro final month.
“It was a powerful and tough match like all of the matches within the AFC Champions League, however an important factor is that we created many possibilities and defended properly to forestall the opponent from creating simple possibilities,” Ronaldo instructed a information convention.
“It’s not necessary any extra whether or not I’m one of the best or not, I not care about that. It’s good for a participant to attain objectives, however for me, it’s higher for the workforce to win.
“I’m used to breaking data and I not search for them. An important factor for me now’s to take pleasure in and assist Al Nassr and my teammates to win.”
Ronaldo grew to become the highest scorer in a single season within the league final Might with 35 objectives.
The Portugal captain additionally scored his 901st profession objective in a 2-1 win over Scotland within the Nations League final month.
“My objective in opposition to Al Rayyan was completely different and necessary as a result of my father would have been pleased with it if he was alive, as in the present day [yesterday] is his birthday,” the previous Actual Madrid, Juventus and Manchester United ahead added.
Final month, Ronaldo grew to become the primary particular person to achieve a billion followers throughout his social media accounts, aided by his newly launched YouTube channel, which generated greater than 60 million subscribers in simply greater than three weeks.
He topped Forbes’s checklist of the best-paid athletes this 12 months as his earnings off the pitch reached $60m, boosted by his giant social media following.
Ronaldo, a five-time Ballon d’Or winner, has scored 131 objectives for Portugal and contributed considerably to high European membership groups, together with 450 objectives for Actual Madrid, 145 for Manchester United, 101 for Juventus and 5 for his first membership, Sporting CP.
In August, he obtained a particular award from UEFA in recognition of his record-breaking achievements within the Champions League.
He lately dismissed ideas he had thought-about ending his worldwide profession within the close to future, including that criticism after he failed to attain within the 2024 European Championship didn’t fear him.
