Ronaldo is coming off a club run with Real Madrid in which the squad won four of the last five Champions League titles and also captured the La Liga titles for the 2011-12 and 2016-17 seasons. The club won 16 trophies in total during Ronaldo’s nine seasons.
These years in Real Madrid, and in this city of Madrid, have been possibly the happiest of my life,” Ronaldo wrote in an open letter to the club’s supporters. “I only have feelings of enormous gratitude for this club, for this hobby and for this city. I can only thank all of them for the love and affection I have received.
In the 2018 World Cup, Ronaldo impressed for Portugal scoring four goals in four matches, including a hat trick in the opener against Spain. His 85 international goals are the second most all-time, behind Iranian great Ali Daei’s 109.