Cristiano Ronaldo criticised The Best awards: “They are losing credibility”

After a successful season in the Arab league, which led him to become the top scorer of the year – 54 goals – and receive the award at the Globe Soccer awards ceremony, Cristiano Ronaldo questioned The Best awards, where Lionel Messi recently won his third trophy, and maintained that “they are losing credibility”. The historic Portuguese footballer returned to compete with his arrival in the Arab league, after an unsuccessful return to Manchester United, a club in which he dazzled the football world, in which during his last stage he was relegated from the squad. At Al Nassr, Ronaldo showed the doubters that at 39 years of age he is still in shape, and managed to surpass in statistics the high-level footballers competing in Europe, which is why he swept the last edition of the Globe Soccer.Without being considered in The Best awards, the Portuguese gave his opinion on the matter in a recent interview with the newspaper Record. “I know how these organizations work. To be honest, I didn’t watch The Best Awards ceremony. I think in a way, these awards are losing credibility,” he said. You have to analyse the whole season. I don’t want to say that Messi didn’t deserve it or Haaland or even Mbappé. But it’s numbers. And the numbers don’t lie,” he added then, referring to the Globe Soccer, held in Dubai, where he won three categories: Top Scorer of the Year -Maradona Award-, Favorite Footballer of the Fans and Best Player in the Middle East.In that sense, the Portuguese referred to the current level of the Arab league and highlighted his statistics there. “It’s difficult to score goals, whether it’s in Saudi Arabia, Italy, Spain or Portugal. A goal is a goal. In a way, I’m even prouder to have beaten Haaland, Mbappé and Kane. I don’t think this Saudi league is worse than the French league; in my opinion, Ligue 1 has two or three teams of good level and in Saudi Arabia, no, that’s why I think it’s more competitive,” he said. People were already giving me up for lost,” he said of the scepticism on the part of a certain sector of the football public that he glimpsed after his time at Manchester United. “The truth is that I concentrated, I had an excellent pre-season at Al-Nassr,” he said to conclude his words. Enshrined as the top scorer in the history of football, the Portuguese returned to the top last year by scoring 54 goals – 44 at Al Nassr and 10 with the Portugal national team – establishing his fifth season as top scorer of the year in his career – 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015. A little behind the Portuguese’s astronomical figure was Kylian Mbappé (52 goals in 53 games), Harry Kane (52 in 57) and Erling Haaland (50 in 60).

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