How many players arrived at 40 playing at a high level in professional football? If the goalkeepers are discarded, very few.
You can count on your fingers: Paolo Maldini, Milan’s Italian defender, who played up to 41; Francesco Totti, Italian striker of Rome, who stopped at 40; The Brazilians Romário, the Baixinho, who needs no presentations, and Zé Roberto, half -lateral, whose last club was Palmeiras-also hung the boots at the age of 43.
Perhaps there are a few more, requiring a greater effort of memory.
The footballer, especially what works on the line, needs the body to work well to be able to perform with more advanced quality. Between 20 and 30 years, the physical height is reached. After that, it is natural to decay.
The Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo is an exception. With four decades of life on the back, his legs make him run so much, or more, that very kid with half his age.
He has always been very careful, I believe that more than anyone, with ruled diet, intense exercises of muscle strengthening, sleepy nights, combined with exhausting training in the clubs he went through. Possibly, it also has a privileged genetics.
The set was worth the CR7, a nickname that comes from the initials of Cristiano and Ronaldo plus the 7 (shirt number he dressed in most of his career and still wears), another, robotry nickname, for physical perfection added to technical exuberance.
Cristiano Ronaldo has one of the deadliest starters of football, dribbles well – to peck his “pedaling”, finishes well with both feet and is an excellent header.
No wonder, he received the Golden Ball, best in the world, five times (2008, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017), being only behind Argentine Lionel Messi, 37, elected on eight occasions.
Egocentric and Fominha, Cristiano Ronaldo boasts of the amount of goals as a professional: 920. It is his main argument to consider the supreme among those who have been within the four lines.
Tell this even to his son Mateo, 7, when he tells him “Father, Mbappé [craque francês] It’s better than you. “” No, I’m better than him, I scored more goals “is the answer.
Like this? More than Pelé? More than Pelé, when they are considered only official matches, by clubs and selection. The king of football wrote down 1,282, but more than 500 were in games considered non -official (friendly, in combined, display, military).
For this criterion, CR7 is at the top of the top scorers in history, ahead of Messi (850 goals), the vice-leader.
One of Lusitano’s dreams is to reach a thousand goals. Realizable?
As it operates in a mediocre league, that of Saudi Arabia peripheral, which allows him to shine and be a protagonist (there were 50 goals in season 2023/2024), and continues to defend the Portuguese team, is viable.
CR7 did not set a deadline to retire. It only says it should be by Al Nassr, his current club. My bet is that it will only stop after the millennial goal brand.
For now, it will come, with the great form that is peculiar to it, at the Club of Quarentões. Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, born in Funchal, on Madeira Island, completes 40 on Wednesday (5).
Congratulations to Robãozão.
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