Full tank for Cristiano Ronaldo: he enrolls at Euro 2024

Cristiano Ronaldo will spend two decades defending the Portugal shirt. The Madeira striker is still aiming to turn 20 with the national team (he will do so on 20 August 2023), but he wants to take his career even further. Qatar will not be the last big event for him, as he publicly acknowledged at the Gala Quinas de Ouro organized this Tuesday by the Portuguese Football Association.

The Manchester United striker was honored for his contribution to Portuguese football and for one historical merit: the all-time top scorer in international football. Sheathed in a striped suit, he has made public his upcoming goals for the national team. “It’s been a long way, but I take this opportunity to say my road isn’t over yet. It will cost him a little more with Cris. I feel motivated, my ambition is great. I am in the national team with many young people and I want to participate in this World Cup and also in the European 2024. I will say it immediately ”, she assured.

The one in Qatar will be the fifth World Cup of his career where he aspires to surpass or equal his best result, fourth place in Germany 2006 (they lost the semifinal against France and the match for third place against the hosts). The European 2024 would come exactly 20 years after that of Portugal, his first major tournament with the Portuguese national team. In this they reached the final but ended up falling to the minimum in Greece. Cristiano was able to redeem himself by being the key to winning Portugal’s first international title in 2016 by winning the European Championship in France, making “Les Bleus” suffer for what he suffered in 2004, beating the hosts in the match the final.

“I never thought I’d do it”

Cristiano Ronaldo overtook Iranian Ali Daei as the national football team’s all-time top scorer in 2021 and his own federation wanted to recognize this merit. The Madeira one humbly assumed that they did not expect to break the record.

“It is an honor to receive an award of this magnitude and to be the best scorer in the history of the national team. I never thought it would be achieved. I want to thank everyone who has been important in my career. I am very happy ”, he declared in front of some of the most important football personalities of his country.

With the aim of continuing to extend that record in Qatar, Cristiano is preparing for a very difficult season at Manchester United. The Portuguese wanted to get out in the Champions League, but he failed, and now he is trying to take revenge in the Ten Hag team, in which he is having a difficult start with only one goal in eight games between the league and the Europa League. All the minutes to prepare to extend the score by 117 goals for ‘garnet’ and continue to bring Portugal to the top.

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