Cristiano Ronaldo remains fundamental for the choice of Portugal. The 39-year-old Portuguese scored a spectacular overhead kick to close out the victory against Poland with a brace. The player of Al-Nassr adds and continues to seek to reach the figure of 1,000 goals in his career, although he surprised with some revealing statements in which he spoke of his retirement, for which he set a date.
“The 1,000 goals don’t matter to me at all, I don’t think about it. My retirement… will arrive in a year or two years. It’s about enjoying the moment and enjoying football. You have to go to training and to the game motivated, when I don’t feel like that, I’ll take a step forward and say that it’s not enough for me anymore. In a few months, I will be 40, I’m taking it slowly and enjoying it. I particularly enjoy the national team, where I enjoy playing the most,” he said.
The Portuguese emphasized that “in one or two years” will hang up his boots. However, he still has football left and from what he continues to demonstrate, he is at the highest level to compete with Portugal. Cristiano Ronaldo He remains essential in a team full of talent, of which he is the undisputed leader.
At the end of the match, he didn’t just talk about 1,000 goals and his future retirement. He also did so about the great game he played, leading with a brace against Portugal in a 5-1 loss to Poland. “Chilean goal? I didn’t have a chance to see the images properly. It was fun, but I need to review and rate the degree of difficulty», declared the Portuguese after the meeting.
He also spoke about the spectacular second half of Portugal, where all the goals happened: “I’m happy, it was a difficult goal and with the penalty I was a little hesitant, I had failed in a recent match. “It was a spectacular second half… I’m happy to have scored two goals.”
Furthermore, an objective has been set for the coming months in the League of Nations, just over a year before the 2026 World Cup, which will take place in the United States, Mexico and Canada and which, in his words, is considered the last: “That’s our goal, to win the competition. “We knew we had to be more aggressive, but there was one important detail, to stop talking to the referee, mainly me.”
With victory, Portugal have certified their qualification for the quarter-finals of the League of Nations as first in his group. At the moment, they have 13 points, one match away from the group stage. They exceeded a Poland that he arrived without Lewandowski and that his permanence in League A is at stake with a 5-1 victory in which Cristiano Ronaldo was the protagonist.
In the absence of a match, those of Roberto Martinez They already know they will be in the quarter-finals as group winners, just like Spain. They still have to play against Croatia, in a match in which he will meet Modric again and where he can continue to expand his goal tally, in search of the long-awaited 1,000 goals.
