Recently, Ronaldo was interviewed by his former Manchester United teammate, Ferdinand.
Ronaldo said, “What difficulties have I encountered in Saudi Arabia? My life has always been about challenges. I left home at the age of 11 to live in a big city. For me, this is very easy. I moved from Madeira to Lisbon, from Lisbon to England, then from England to Spain, after that to Italy, and then back to England. For me, living in Saudi Arabia is not a problem. My family and I are very happy here in Saudi Arabia.”
“This year, I lost three championships in penalty shootouts, that’s just football. The day I missed a penalty, I cried, although I think Oblak made an excellent save, but I need to explain, I cried because I missed the penalty, not because I thought if I missed it Portugal would be eliminated and that would be the end, not because of that, absolutely not. It was simply because, imagine, in the past 27 penalties, I scored all of them, but this time I missed, that moment made me feel sad for myself, I wasn’t even thinking about other things, I felt sad for all the spectators present, especially for my family, for my mother, for my children.”
“I am the person with the most followers in the world, and this is not just because of my good looks. There are many factors involved, including scoring goals, football, awards, family, lifestyle, everything.”
“People try to speak ill of me and criticize me, but for me, it doesn’t matter, (in my mind) tomorrow I will play against a team and try to score goals, if I don’t score? Then I’ll try to score in the next game, that’s my way. I always try to score goals, for me, it doesn’t matter whether the opponent is France or Ittihad. I’m about to reach 900 goals soon, but my goal is to score 1,000 goals.”
“All leagues are different, people often know less than they say, all leagues have issues, when you interview other players who play here, they will tell you it’s not easy, this is a very tough league, and the weather is extremely hot, you know it’s hard to maintain your level in the heat, but in my opinion, this league is very good and is constantly improving. When I transferred to the Saudi league, I didn’t feel any pressure. I am glad to be a pioneer in football in this country, which makes me very happy.”