Ronaldo says he’s higher than Messi in best soccer participant debate – INA NEWS

Throughout an interview with Spanish tv, Cristiano Ronaldo has not held again on why he’s the best footballer of all time.

“I’m the perfect participant in soccer historical past. I haven’t seen anybody higher than me in soccer historical past, and I’m saying fact from my coronary heart,” Ronaldo mentioned in an interview with media outlet LaSexta TV on Monday.

The 39-year-old Portuguese ahead has confronted fixed comparisons with fellow celebrity Lionel Messi all through his profession with Ronaldo conceding in the course of the interview that many followers choose the Argentine ahead.

However Ronaldo insisted that statistics again up his declare to be the perfect.

“I’m speaking about numbers,” Ronaldo mentioned. “I feel I’m essentially the most full participant to have existed. In my view, I feel it’s me. I do every part properly in soccer: with my head, free kicks, left foot. I’m quick. I’m robust.

“One factor is style. When you like Messi, Pele, Maradona, I perceive that and I respect that, however saying Ronaldo isn’t full … I’m essentially the most full. I haven’t seen anyone higher than me, and I say it from the guts.”

Ronaldo, who beforehand performed for Actual Madrid and Manchester United, is the captain of Saudi Professional League facet Al-Nassr.

In the course of the interview, the five-time Ballon d’Or winner additionally made his opinion identified on the controversy over the best aim scorer of all time. Ronaldo holds the report as the best aim scorer ever with 923, the most recent coming in a brace in Al-Nassr’s 4-0 AFC Champions League victory over Al Wasl on Monday.

“Who’s the perfect aim scorer in historical past? It’s about numbers. Full cease,” Ronaldo mentioned.

“Who’s the participant in historical past who’s scored essentially the most targets with their head, their left foot, penalties, free kicks? I used to be trying the opposite day, and never being left-footed, I’m within the prime 10 aim scorers with their left foot in historical past – and with my head and with my proper foot and penalties. All of them.”

Ronaldo topped Forbes’s 2024 listing of the perfect paid athletes as his earnings off the pitch reached $60m, boosted by greater than a billion social media followers.

The ahead, who turns 40 on Wednesday, nonetheless isn’t considering retirement from membership or worldwide soccer.