Ikuku ana fu anya

How can I lose when I came here with nothing? Radiographer ☢ Ikuku🇳🇬🇬🇧🇶🇦🇪🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇦🇱

[Ikuku ana fu anya @Ezehjames]

Money is shy and elusive. It must be wooed and won by methods not unlike those used by a determined lover in pursuit of a mate.

[Ororo😎 @McFlybowy]

This is why I always maintain Ronaldo is the GOAT.

You can argue about who the better footballer is. That’s a football debate, and everyone will have their reasons.

But “greatest” goes beyond pure football ability.

Greatness is about the size of your legacy. It’s about the lives you inspired, the standards you set, the records you left behind, the longevity, the consistency, the influence across generations, and the impact you had on the sport itself.

Ronaldo didn’t just dominate an era. He changed what people believed was physically and mentally possible in football. He redefined professionalism, discipline, and self-belief. He became the blueprint for millions of young players around the world.

There are players who entertained us. There are players who amazed us. Then there’s Cristiano Ronaldo, who made an entire generation believe that relentless work could take you to the very top.

Look at the numbers. The all-time leading goalscorer. Success in England, Spain, Italy, and with Portugal. Five Champions Leagues. A European Championship. A Nations League. Countless individual awards. Nearly two decades of performing at the highest level.

But even those achievements don’t fully explain his greatness.

His influence extends far beyond trophies. Walk into almost any country in the world and ask a child to name a footballer. Cristiano Ronaldo will almost always be one of the first names mentioned. Millions copied his celebration, his haircut, his free-kick stance, his mentality, his work ethic. He became more than a footballer, he became a global sporting icon.

That’s the difference.

The best is about ability.

The greatest is about the totality of what you represent to the game.

For me, no footballer has combined elite performance, longevity, worldwide influence, consistency, commercial appeal, inspiration, and an unmatched winning mentality quite like Cristiano Ronaldo.

That’s why I call him the GOAT. 🐐

[Victor Okafor @TheVictorOkafor]

It takes an insane man to play like this for 4 years, lose the ballon d’or for 4 years straight, not complain even once, get to work and show up better the next year.

His greatest legacy is him not breaking down mentally between 2009 - 2012.

That’s why some people are willing to die for him.

The mentality is different.

[Rasheed || Securities Counsel @AromokalaRashid]

Cristiano Ronaldo’s Goals in Every Minute of a Match (1–90).

[Mabr3_wiase @_Rholex]

Watch Ronaldo 303+ assists

All on Tape

[德亚 🖤 @elonhatesder4]

Idolo no be only you oo 😂😂
Your African brother, Godfrey Chitalu get 107 goals in one year too but them carry una glory give Akpabio 😂

[FIFA World Cup Stats @alimo_philip]

🇫🇷 Kylian Mbappé is now the FIRST player in 50 YEARS to finish as TOP SCORER in the World Cup, Champions League, AND domestic league in the SAME season!

👊 Only Eusébio achieved this legendary feat back in 1966.

👏 What A Player!

[Goals Side @goalsside]

🚨🚨| RECORD: Michael Olise becomes the 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 player to finish as the:

→ Most assists in the Bundesliga
→ Most assists in the UEFA Champions League
→ Most assists at the FIFA World Cup

All in the same season. 🤯🇫🇷

[Pelé @Pele]

Congratulations, @Cristiano. It was hard to join another side after so long at Santos but it was the right move. Champions never tire of new challenges. /Parabéns, Cristiano! Eu achei muito difícil defender outra camisa depois de tanto tempo no @SantosFC, mas foi o certo a fazer. https://t.co/aA44BKpakr

[Rado 🎈 @thee_ovie]

Attackers Spain faced at the World Cup:

Uruguay: Nunez
Belgium: Doku, Trossard, De Ketelaere, Lukaku
France: Mbappe, Dembele, Olise, Barcola, Doue
Argentina: Alvarez, Messi (120 minutes)

If Ronaldo had put in the same performance Messi did in the final, he'd be blamed for holding Portugal back instead of the team as a whole.

The difference in standards tells you why he's the GOAT.

[The Galacticos @RmadridElRey]

KYLIAN MBAPPÈ at 27
580🏟️
436⚽️
161🅰️
597G/A
1.03📊
22 career trophies 🏆

MONACO
34 G/A
Won Ligue 1 against a dominant PSG side .Won it for Monaco after 16 years league title drought.
Scored 6KO goals in CL
Ligue 1 YPOTS

PSG
308matches
256 goals
91 assists
347G/A
1.13📊
Club Top Scorer
Most Goal contributions in their club history
Most CL goals in their club history
Most CL KO goals in their Club history
Most Goals scored by a player in the Parc de Princes
Most goals scored by a player in the Coup de France

Titles
Ligue 1 (6): 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24
Coupe de France (4): 2017–18, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2023–24
Coupe de la Ligue (2): 2017–18, 2019–20
Trophées des Champions (3): 2019, 2020, 2023 

LIGUE 1
Most ligue 1 POTS in its history(5x) 🥇
Most ligue 1 POTM in its history (11x)🥇
6 x top scorer consecutively ( most in its history)🥇
Top 7 scorers in its history and 1st in the 21st century
Only player to have been top scorer & top assister in the same season in history 🥇
Ligue 1 winner ( x7)

••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
REAL MADRID
•103🏟️
•86⚽️
•11🅰️
•97G/A
0.94📊
•Most goals in a debut season in Real Madrid history
•Most goals scored in La liga by a player in his debut season
•1st European golden boot winner in Madrid since 2015(won by CR7)
•1st European golden boot winner in La liga since 2018 (won by Messi )
•Only player in history to score hattrick at Camp Nou and Montuic
•Only Madrid player to score in all tournament in a single season (7)
•Most goals scored in a single calendar year.( joint leader with CR7)
•Scored in all finals (4 goals 1 assist)he has started.
•Only Real Madrid player in history to score 40+ in first 2 seasons.
•🏆Intercontinental Cup
•🏆 Uefa Supercup
🥇UCL Golden boot winner
🥇 La Liga golden boot winner X2
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

UCL

98 matches
70goals
25 assists
95G/A

•Most goal contributions in CL since he debuted in 2017 .No player has more.
•Top 6 UCL top scorers of all time
•Top 6 CL KO goals (players who has more is CR7 ,Messi ,lewa ,Benz & muller)
•Top 6 UCL KO goals contributions
•2nd most away goals in CL KO phase (16) only CR7 has more
•CL golden boot 2023/24
•Most away UCL career hattricks
•Most Champions League knockout round goals scored by a teenage
•Most Champions League knockout round goals scored under the age of 21
•Youngest French player to score a hat-trick in the Champions League
•Youngest player to score a hat-trick away from home in a Champions League knockout match

•••••••••••••••••••••••
France National Team 🇫🇷
•106 matches
•66Goals
•44Assists
•110G/A
•🌟Most Goal contributions in French national team history
•🌟Most assists in French history
•🌟Most WC goals in football history
•🌟Most WC finals goals in Football history
•🌟Most WC KO goals in football history
•🌟Most Goals scored in all finals in French history (5)
•🌟Most goals scored in major tournaments in French history (23)
•🌟Hattrick in a WC final
•🌟first player in football history to Win WC golden boot x2
🌟First player in football history to have most goal contributions in a WC b2b
•🌟WC YPOT
•🌟UEFA Nation league golden boot winner

🏆WC winner

🏆 UEFA Nations League
WC silver ball 🥈
WC bronze ball🥉

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••
•INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
•Kopa Trophy (1st ever to win it )
•Golden ball
•Gerd muller trophy
•WC YPOT
•WC golden boot x2
•European Golden Boot
•La Liga Golden Boot x2
•6 Ligue 1 Golden Boot
•UEFA nations league golden boot
•IFFHS top scorer of the year 2022 x 2025
•IFFHS men’s team of the year (x4)
•Globe soccer award 2021
•Globe player of the year 2024
•Ligue 1 POTS(x5)
•Ligue 1 TOTY(X6)
•UCL golden boot
•FIFA Pro TOTY (x5)
•UEFA TOTS (x4)
•French player of the year (x4)
•14 Golden Boots.

[Oyiga Micheal @Nsukka_okpa]

Do not allow Messi fans Gaslight you using"most trophies and individual honors" as a Metric for the GOAT debate 😂

Up until 2025, Dani Alves had the highest number of trophies won, nobody referred to him as the undisputed GOAT of football.

Before Messi and Ronaldo, Michel Platini was the untouchable king with his consecutive Ballon d'Ors. No one referred to him as the GOAT of football because he had most ballon D’or.

It is pure, unadulterated recency bias.

The second Messi statistically catches up, the goalposts magically shift.

The same way they invented Knock out Goals that wasn’t a metric in 2010 World Cup when he had zero knock out goal, the same way International trophy doesn’t matter to be the GoAT but immediately he has one, it suddenly matters.

Let’s never forget how they started using Goal and Assist as a metric since Ronaldo started having more Goals.

No allow them Gaslight you.

Viva Ronaldo.
Siuuuuuu.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has scrapped VAT on household energy bills from 1st October

It will save the average household £42

[Copy Counsel @BenYousef_E]

Messi let him down. He did everything possible to keep Argentina in the game with saves but Argentina lost because the ego of one man is bigger than an entire nation.

Fully fit Latutaro Martinez who scored the winner for them in the semi final was on the bench but Messi chose to loiter around the pitch for 125 minutes.

[Akinwumi @Big_marvis]

This is the guy you are say is humble.

There is no short humble man anywhere in the world.

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

Argentina now hold the record for the most fouls (26) and fewest shots on target in a World Cup final (0) ❌🇦🇷

[Pelé @Pele]

@Cristiano, que bela jornada você está tendo! Eu te admiro muito e isso não é segredo para ninguém. Parabéns por quebrar o meu recorde de gols em partidas oficiais. Deixo essa foto em sua homenagem, com muito carinho, como símbolo de uma amizade que já existe há muitos anos.

[Ceejay @Sir_jaay01]

Lionel Messi is such a selfish player. Always wanting all the glory for himself.

Instead of making way for the younger players in the extra time especially with a man down, he kept walking around the pitch while everyone try to cover his a$$.