Juventus striker Cristiano Ronaldo is the winner of this year's Golden Ball award, although the competition is still open for Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk.
There have been strong rumors from Paris that Don won the World Player of the Year award from France Football magazine on December 2.
She said representatives of the French specialized newspaper had visited Ronaldo in Turin in the past few days.
If the Italian newspaper believes that Ronaldo, who won last season's Serie A, the Super Cup and the Europa League with his country, will write a new chapter in the history of football by achieving his sixth golden ball and break the partnership with rivals Messi and singled out the number of winning the last golden balls In 2017.
France Football published an interview with the Madeira rocket saying that "you must be smart to continue." The 35-year-old on Feb. 5 still has the ambition and determination to stay, shine and make no mistakes in his career.
"My goal is to stay young as I get older and be a permanent opponent," he asked. "How many players do I do at that age and with a team like Juventus?" When I was 19 or 20, I thought football was a matter of numbers and goals. And titles. "
Regarding the competition with Messi, Ronaldo said: "The competition between us in the Spanish league was useful and strong and made us rise to higher levels .. It was a healthy competition."
Ronaldo revealed that the secret to be a "fiery scorer" is "talent first, without them nothing can be done and talent without worthless work .. nothing falls from the sky .. I would not reach the level where I am now without serious work and effort "I have scored more than 700 goals in my career and that makes me proud because few players have done this."