Cristiano, in 2019: “If Messi wins the Ballon d’Or, I’ll leave football”

Thierry Marchand, one of the great journalists of the French daily, was commissioned to produce the biography of Cristiano Ronaldo. Thierry and Ronaldo met at the end of 2019, where the reporter interviewed him to shape the biography that comes out today.

Christian had signed up for the Juve a year earlier, after leaving Real Madrid. It was the Portuguese who surprised with declarations regarding the Ballon d’Or that same year: “It’s easy to stay in your bubble when you are successful. I took a risk by coming to Turin. I changed clubs, leagues, football culture, I took a risk and it was that risk that, I am sure, did not make me win the Ballon d’Or in 2018. If Messi wins the Ballon d’Or this year, I ‘I’m leaving football “. The award that year would end up winning it Luca Modric.

He also wanted to comment on the rumors that led him to play in Paris and is no exception. After he won his fifth Champions League and on the pitch himself, he left a message with a certain farewell tone that weeks later would end up being confirmed. “I know the door is open. I see myself playing in the Parque dos Príncipes, in front of 50,000 Portuguese emigrants. Would be great”the Portuguese commented on the interest of the Parisians.