Tumisang Chimeloane

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[Tumisang Chimeloane @ItsBraNelson]

I’m now a Fully Qualified Electrical Artisan 💪🏽😎👷🏽‍♂️

[Rance @son_of_uki]

they said ronaldo wouldn’t score 400 goals. he did.

then they said he wouldn’t score 600. he did.

then 900. he did.

now he’s just 22 goals away from 1,000.

in a universe where cristiano ronaldo doesn’t exist, haaland would probably be receiving nothing but criticism from these bitter ex-footballers. the only reason they’re suddenly praising his chances of reaching 1,000 goals is to undermine cristiano’s achievement and pretend there’s nothing special about what he’s accomplished

[𝐅𝐚𝐧 𝟏𝟎 @Cunha__utd]

Still get goosebumps man

[Ororo😎 @McFlybowy]

I’m sorry, I’m going to drag this conversation a bit away from Haaland, but do you people realise Ronaldo scored his 300th club goal in his 499th game? He was 27 years old, that’s two years older than when Messi did it. Today, he’s just 22 goals away from 1,000 goals.

How Ronaldo’s career peaked from the age of 30 is another statement on its own. He was never meant to be the greatest scorer ever, he didn’t even start at that. Brick by brick, he built that.

That’s what makes his career so great to me. Ronaldo didn’t wake up one morning and suddenly become this goalscoring machine. He evolved into it. He went from a winger whose biggest weapon was his ability to take people on, to a player who understood that his greatest value could come from what he did in and around the box.

He kept adding things to his game. Better movement, better positioning, better finishing, better anticipation, better understanding of space. Then as the explosiveness started to decline, he adapted again. He became more economical with his movements and even more ruthless in the final third.

And this is why I struggle when people reduce his career to just he was talented. Talent gets you to a certain level. What Ronaldo did after getting there was the real madness. He constantly looked at his own game and found something else to improve.

At 27, 300 club goals looked like an incredible number. At 30, you could already see the player was entering another phase. And somehow, instead of declining like most players do around that period, his goalscoring output went through the roof.

That is longevity, adaptation and obsession working together.

The greatest scorer ever wasn’t necessarily the player who had the most natural goalscoring profile at 18 or 20. He became that player over thousands of hours of work, repetition and adaptation.

Brick by brick. Season by season. Goal by goal. He built that.

[Mlungisi Ntshangase @Mlu__N77]

This advice is still valuable so much❤️🙏.

[Liga de Campeones @LigadeCampeones]

😃 CR7

#UCL

[AB⚕ @AbsoluteBruno]

I still find it crazy how four different generations have watched Ronaldo play football. This boy wasn’t even born when Ronaldo was in his prime😭😭

[Ündøx @Undox45]

Tables turn in life🦈

[Lesiba @lesiba_lj]

It was at this stage where I started to see that Mkhwanazi is the one

[NC💎| Miss Data👩🏽‍💻 @chantelkoena_]

Start with Python, SQL, and basic statistics first. Once you’re comfortable, try Azure for a solid intro to cloud tools before moving to AWS for bigger data projects.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Name a book that everyone should read.

I’ll go first: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

[Tumisang Chimeloane @ItsBraNelson]

@bnooks18 @MT_Ntsonda With 256 bit 🤞🏽😅

[Soloball🇵🇹 @OginiSolomon]

The 2016/17 UEFA Champions League season will forever be remembered as the ultimate testament to the contrasting philosophies, styles and narratives of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

It was a campaign split into two halves: the group stage belonged to Messi's breathtaking brilliance, while the knockout rounds witnessed the greatest clutch goalscoring run in Champions League history from Cristiano Ronaldo.

In the 2016 group stage, Messi looked untouchable.

He opened the campaign with a hat-trick against Celtic, followed it with another hat-trick against Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, and continued dismantling defenses across Europe.

By the end of the group stage, Messi had already scored an astonishing 10 goals, leading the competition comfortably.

Meanwhile, Cristiano Ronaldo looked unusually quiet.

Real Madrid finished second in their group behind Borussia Dortmund, and Ronaldo—already the competition's all-time great—had scored just 2 goals in six group-stage matches.

The media began writing him off.

Many pundits openly questioned whether the 31-year-old Ronaldo had entered the decline of his career and suggested his days of deciding Europe's biggest games were over.

Then Zinedine Zidane changed everything.

Recognizing Ronaldo's age, Zidane introduced a revolutionary rotation policy, resting him in several domestic matches to preserve him for the Champions League.

He also transformed Ronaldo from an explosive winger into a devastating penalty-box forward.

When the knockout rounds started, everything changed.

Barcelona survived the historic 6-1 comeback against PSG, with Messi scoring once to move to 11 goals.

But in the quarter-finals, Juventus completely shut Barcelona down.

Messi couldn't score over the two legs, and Barcelona were eliminated.

His Champions League campaign ended with 11 goals.

With Messi out, Ronaldo exploded.

Despite trailing Messi by nine goals entering the latter stages, Ronaldo produced arguably the greatest knockout run the competition has ever seen.

Against Bayern Munich, he scored twice in Munich before completing a hat-trick in the return leg at the Bernabéu.

Against Diego Simeone's Atlético Madrid—the best defensive side in Europe at the time—Ronaldo delivered another unforgettable hat-trick in the first leg to practically send Madrid to the final.

Then came Juventus.

The same Juventus side that completely neutralized Messi.

The same Juventus side led by Gianluigi Buffon that had conceded only 3 goals throughout the competition before the final.

Ronaldo scored twice in the Champions League final as Real Madrid won 4-1.

Across just five knockout matches against Bayern Munich, Atlético Madrid and Juventus, Ronaldo scored 10 goals.

He finished the competition with 12 goals, overtaking Messi after trailing him by nine earlier in the season.

Real Madrid became the first club in the modern era to successfully defend the Champions League.

Ronaldo won another Champions League Golden Boot, another Champions League title, and later the 2017 Ballon d'Or.

For me, this season perfectly summarizes the difference between the two.

Messi dominated the earlier rounds.

Ronaldo dominated the biggest rounds.

And when football's biggest nights arrived, Cristiano Ronaldo produced one of the greatest clutch performances the Champions League has ever seen.

[DEGREAT FC @Pounzydegreat01]

Only Cristiano Ronaldo can torment Atletico Madrid with a hattrick each time they met.

Remember. Atletico Madrid have knocked out Barcelona 3 times, all in the quarter-finals.

And Barcelona and Messi have never knock out Atletico in the competition

[SARKODIE🐐 @99wisdom99]

Here: we only live by the truth💯
Cristiano Ronaldo is a complete.

He played midfield he was a phenomenon

He played as a winger he was a genius

He played as a striker he was fantastic.

Such a dynamic player;
Dribbles, pace, shot power, passing accuracy and jump. Top notch🔥

[CR7STIANISMO🇪🇸🇵🇹 @Cr7stianismo_]

🚨El impresionante vídeo de la selección francesa para presentar a Zinedine Zidane como entrenador.

[ThatBlessedGirl @BlessedGirl001]

Messi's career was tainted when Gifa started giving him unmerited awards for marketing, and corruption (Refs and VAR ruling in favor of Messi/argentine team).

Fifa thought they were trying to punish Ronaldo, not knowing they are ruining Messi's legacy.

[Solonzo SN @SolonzoSN]

Forget trophies for a second
when he speaks, that confidence alone tells you he’s the GOAT.

[KAT @reallKAT]

Growth Requires Consistency, Discipline, and Alignment. -Myles Munroe.

[ALIEN OF AFRICA 👽🛸 @THEREALALIEN_1]

We’ve leave the goat debate for you guys
Ronaldo is now a DRAGON “Dominant Ruler Across Generations Of Nations” SI LONG AH DU 🙇🐉

[Art of Life 🦋 @Art0fLife_]

She literally exposes how to stay disciplined at anything: