Cristiano doubts that Messi was in the podium of the Balloon of Gold 2018

The Portuguese forward of the Juventus of Turín, Cristiano Ronaldo, has conceded an interview to 'France Football', the magazine commissioned to deliver annually the Balloon of Gold, in which it has doubted that Leo Messi can occupy this year a place between the three first qualifiers of the award, to the time that plants to himself same like big applicant.

Cristiano Ronaldo quotes in the interview to Salah, Modric, Griezmann, Varane or Mbappé like some of the players that could occupy the podium of the Balloon of Gold 2018, but has his doubts that Leo Messi, with the titles and prizes won in this 2018, like the 'doublet' of LaLiga Santander and Glass of the King with the FC Barcelona or the Boot of Gold of the big European leagues, can be in the podium.

To his 33 years, in any case, Cristiano Ronaldo quotes to himself same and to Leo Messi like the only players that have been able to hold a level of amazing game during the last decade. "How many players are able to be in the highest level during more than ten years? They have the fingers of a hand. Well, we say that there is two: Messi and I", ensures.

In fact, Cristiano Ronaldo ensures that fichó by the Juventus of Turín and no by another club to keep the level of requirement and keep, of this way, between the best players of the planet to his 33 years. "To my age any player happens of a big club to another big club by one hundred millions (...). To my age, and say it with respect by those who do it, the players go to China, to Emirates, to Indian and finish there his career", remembers.

In this coyuntura, Cristiano is "proud of not reasoning like this", to "be a different animal, a different athlete, a different person, with a different brain", as it says. "I do not say that it was better, say that I am different. And it can that it was therefore that am in the summit of the mountain from twelve years ago", remarks the forward of the Juventus of Turín.

The fact to have a different mentality, always competitive, allows him keep the level and be always to the foot of the cannon, as it says. "The age is in the head and this allows me follow still in the summit, feel the same pleasure by what do in the field, be happy. I know that some day will finish , in four, five, six years, go you to know".

Message of Cristiano Ronaldo for his detractores

Before finish car-elogiándose, Cristiano Ronaldo has also a memory for his critics and detractores. "There is to the one who would like him that it was the end of a period. But it is not like this. I am and I will follow being here. And I deserve it. My results speak by me, do not leave me offside".

We remember that the luso annotated a 'doublet' this past weekend, in the victory of the Juventus in the field of the Empoli (1-2). Little by little, it sees him increasingly adapted to the game of the Juventus of Turín, of which already is the maximum goleador in what it goes of campaign with 7 goals. The course of the season 2018-19 will determine the figure of targets to which finish arriving the Portuguese.