Faraj Bin Lahousin, Media365, published on Monday, September 2, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Despite being 39 years old, Cristiano Ronaldo is not thinking about retiring at all. The five-time Ballon d'Or winner has joined the Portuguese squad as they prepare to play in the UEFA Nations League.
The new club football season has begun in Europe, and it is about to start on the international stage too, with the Nations League opening this week. Portugal will host Croatia on Thursday and Scotland three days later. Called up by Roberto Martinez, Cristiano Ronaldo will have the chance to improve his international caps, taking his total to 213. But how far will winning the Ballon d'Or five times go? He was not definitive when he attended a press conference on Monday. He said he wasn't thinking of getting rid of the tapes right away..
“This is all from the press, and it never occurred to me.“On the contrary, it motivated me to continue being honest,” Cristiano Ronaldo said when asked if he could retire after Portugal's quarter-final exit at Euro 2024 this summer to France. “The national team was very high. People end up getting lost in their own thoughts. If we had beaten France on penalties we would have reached the semi-finals. Everyone would have been happy. Then we face Spain and things could have gone very well or very badly.”
Ronaldo: Nobody likes to lose, but losing was not a failure
“I don't think it's disappointing. It's a growth process for the national team with new players, a new structure and a coach who needs time to get the team playing his way,” he added. In my opinion it was positive, nobody likes to lose but I keep repeating to myself that it was not a failure“. European champion with the Seleção in 2016, at the age of 39, he participated in his sixth Euro this summer. Already in the history of football, Cristiano Ronaldo has failed to make more history by not scoring during this continental tournament. A tournament in which he is the record scorer with 14 goals.
