Data map: On January 3, 2023 local time, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia successfully held a debut ceremony for Ronaldo.

After the debut ceremony, Ronaldo joined the team to start the first training.

According to reports, all the ticket revenue from the debut ceremony will be allocated to charity work.

The picture shows Ronaldo waving to the fans.

  China News Service, Beijing, January 23 (Reporter Xing Rui) In the early morning of the 23rd Beijing time, it is also the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year.

On this day, the little-known Saudi Super League attracted the attention of world football. Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo ushered in his debut after joining Riyadh Victory.

Cristiano Ronaldo, wearing the No. 7 jersey, started the game and played the whole game.

Although it failed to score a goal, Riyadh Victory finally defeated Daman Collaboration 1:0.

  At the beginning of 2023, Ronaldo started his journey to the Saudi League with a victory.

After experiencing the farce with Manchester United, the collapse of the World Cup, and a series of transfer turmoil, Ronaldo, who is no longer young, finally left West Asia, leaving the world's highest level of competition, but also waved goodbye to the glory created in the past .

  In the eyes of many people, joining the Saudi League is a desperate move for Ronaldo, and it is also the prelude to the end of his career.

After all, in the football world of winners and losers, countless top superstars have retired sadly in low-level leagues far away from the center of world football.

In less than 20 days (February 5), Ronaldo will celebrate his 38th birthday. Judging from his age, it is time for this "old" striker to say goodbye to the green field.

  In a previous interview, Ronaldo once said: "I am very lucky. I have won everything I want to win in European football. I am looking forward to experiencing a new league in a different country. I feel that now is the right time. I can share my experience in Asia.” Without too much ambition, Ronaldo’s remarks are more like a compromise to reality.

After experiencing the "beating" of life, this once proud man finally chose to reconcile with himself.

Data map: On January 3, 2023 local time, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia successfully held a debut ceremony for Ronaldo.

After the debut ceremony, Ronaldo joined the team to start the first training.

According to reports, all the ticket revenue from the debut ceremony will be allocated to charity work.

The picture shows Ronaldo waving to the fans.

  Over the past twenty years, Ronaldo, who started from Sporting Lisbon, has grown from a young boy to a football superstar step by step.

Manchester United, Real Madrid, Juventus, and many European giants have left his presence in the city.

Five-time Ballon d'Or winner, five-time World Player of the Year, five-time Champions League champion, and an unmatched 701 club goals, a series of honors and records have witnessed every step of his climb to the top.

  But the cruelty of competitive sports is that "no one is forever young, but someone is always young".

In 2022, Ronaldo's competitive state will decline at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Although he is still actively running on the field, it seems that he has never been able to find the feeling of scoring.

In stark contrast, the "post-00s" teenager Harland is creating his own era.

Obviously, in the fierce Premier League competition, Ronaldo has the frustration of being "inexpensive and old".

Data map: On December 10, local time, at the moment when the final whistle of the World Cup quarter-final match between Portugal and Morocco sounded, Ronaldo covered his face and knelt down.

Although the 37-year-old Ronaldo's competitive state is no longer what it used to be, his never-say-die heart is still moving.

  Fans are used to Ronaldo's "older and more demonic" state, but they don't know that "veterans don't die, they just wither slowly."

At the World Cup in Qatar, when Portugal was eliminated by Morocco, Ronaldo covered his face and walked out of the player channel crying.

Ronaldo, who was once omnipotent, does not have the "super power" to save the team this time.

  There is a classic line in the Japanese manga "Gintama": "When you grow up, you will understand that there are great sorrows in life that cannot be washed away by tears, and unforgettable pains that make you unable to cry even if you want to. So really A strong person laughs louder the more he wants to cry, and carries pain and sorrow with him, even so, he must carry it with him.”

  Perhaps the taller a person stands, the more pressure they carry on their shoulders.

But no one can always be at the top. Sometimes learning to say goodbye to the strong self in the past is also a compulsory course in life.

  At the press conference for the victory in Riyadh, Ronaldo said: "This is not the end of my career." The iron-clad battalion is full of soldiers, and Ronaldo may use the Saudi League as a transition in the trough.

But the ideal is very full, and the reality is very skinny. Going away to West Asia also means that he has a high probability of losing the opportunity to return to the center of world football.

However, for Ronaldo, who has no shortage of honors, the most important thing now may be to make full preparations for the second half of his life.

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