Cristiano Ronaldo is approaching 40 years of age, an age at which the overwhelming majority of elite athletes select to finish their careers, however the Portuguese has proven that he might attain the 2026 World Cup.
Since his debut in 2002 with Sporting Lisbon, CR7 has constructed his historical past on targets, to the purpose of being thought to be among the best gamers in historical past, alongside Pele or Diego Armando Maradona, to not point out comparisons with Argentine Lionel Messi.
Cristiano is obvious: “The Ballon d’Or was unfair”.
“I’ll be 40 years outdated, however I am not completed, I need to rating extra targets, I need to preserve successful extra with the nationwide workforce. I am going to preserve going,”
With a profession that features Manchester United, Actual Madrid, Juventus and at present Al Nassr, CR7 has amassed a fortune of 800 million euros, a wealth that he has not solely managed, but in addition has a transparent concept of what the following step is as soon as he hangs up his boots.
In statements made on the award ceremony for the most effective participant within the East on the Globe Soccer Gala, CR7 made it clear that he’ll proceed to be linked to soccer, with the thought of turning into the proprietor of a workforce.
“I am not a coach and I am by no means going to be one. Possibly in the future I am going to see myself as a membership proprietor, I do not know.”
Following within the footsteps of Ronaldo and Beckham
Cristiano Ronaldo is trying to emulate a number of examples of soccer stars who after retiring modified their boots for shares in a workforce.
The Portuguese not solely needs to have in frequent along with his namesake Ronaldo and David Beckham to be remembered as a part of the historical past of Actual Madrid. The gamers who as soon as shared a dressing room within the period of Los Galacticos additionally selected to remain in soccer, however not as strategists
Ronaldo Nazario ended his enjoying profession in 2011, and in 2018 the 2002 World Cup winner purchased 51% of the shares in Spain’s Actual Valladolid. It’s speculated that R9 will promote his shares if he’s elected as the brand new president of the CBF.
One other of essentially the most notable examples is David Beckham, who in 2013 put an finish to his profession on the pitch, and in 2018 grew to become one of many shareholders of Inter Miami in MLS, a workforce during which Lionel Messi at present performs
