Immanuel

Film-maker | Creative Graphic Designer

[Immanuel @immanuelste]

29/1/2023💔

[Toni Kroos @ToniKroos]

Football won

[Janty @CFC_Janty]

We don’t have to support Portugal ever again.

[Ororo😎 @McFlybowy]

Cristiano Dos Santos Aveiro Ronaldo,

If today is the last time I watch you play a World Cup match, then thank you.

Thank you for every memory. Thank you for every goal. Thank you for every celebration. Thank you for making millions of us fall in love with football all over again.

I grew up watching you carry the hopes of an entire nation every four years. Every time Portugal walked onto a World Cup pitch, it felt different because Cristiano Ronaldo was there. You gave us belief. Even when the odds were against you, we always felt like something magical could happen because you were wearing that No. 7 shirt.

For over two decades, you’ve been more than just a footballer. You’ve been a symbol of ambition. A reminder that where you come from doesn’t define where you can go. A boy from Madeira dreamed of becoming the greatest footballer in the world, and somehow, through relentless sacrifice and an obsession with improving every single day, he made that dream a reality.

People will always remember the goals, but I’ll remember the journey even more.

The tears after defeats because you cared so much. The celebrations after victories because every trophy still meant everything to you. The nights you carried your country. The moments when people doubted you, only for you to answer in the only way you ever knew, with football.

You taught an entire generation that talent alone is never enough. That greatness belongs to those who are willing to outwork everyone else. Countless young footballers started training harder because of you. Countless athletes in other sports looked at your discipline and realized what true professionalism looked like.

Football has given us many legends, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen someone squeeze every single drop out of his talent the way you did. You reinvented yourself time after time. From an explosive winger who terrorized defenders, to the most complete goalscorer football has ever seen. Left foot, right foot, headers, free kicks, long-range strikes, tap-ins, volleys, it didn’t matter. You mastered every way possible to score.

Some people will only remember the trophies. Others will only remember the statistics. But those of us who watched your journey know that your greatest achievement wasn’t a Ballon d’Or or a Champions League title or a World Cup.

It was inspiring an entire generation to believe that impossible is just another challenge waiting to be conquered.

The World Cup may not have given you the fairytale ending every football fan dreamed of, but it can never define your greatness. One competition could never contain a career this extraordinary. Your legacy was never dependent on lifting one trophy, because long before today, you had already become immortal in the history of this sport.

Years from now, children who never had the privilege of watching you live will still hear your name. They’ll watch your goals on YouTube. They’ll study your mentality. Coaches will use your career as an example of discipline. Athletes from every sport will point to Cristiano Ronaldo as proof that talent, when matched with relentless work ethic, can achieve the extraordinary.

Football moves on. New stars will emerge. New records will be set. New champions will lift the World Cup.

But there will never be another Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro.

If today is the final page of your World Cup story, then know this, you didn’t just play in this tournament. You defined an era. You gave us moments we’ll tell our children about. You gave us reasons to celebrate, to dream, to believe.

Thank you for every sprint. Every goal. Every comeback. Every impossible header. Every unforgettable night.

Thank you for never cheating the game.

Thank you for showing us what obsession with greatness looks like.

And above all, thank you for leaving football far greater than you found it.

Obrigado, Cristiano.

Forever one of the greatest to ever touch a football.

Forever our No. 7. 🐐🇵🇹❤️

I Love you Man.

[Immanuel @immanuelste]

@McFlybowy Thank you GOAT 😭

[LIMOBLAZE OMO JESU @Limoblaze]

It’s been an absolute Joy watching the greatest player of all time play for his country. GOAT forever! Cristiano Dos Santos Aviero Ronaldo! @Cristiano

[fan @NoodleHairCR7]

THE GREATEST THERE IS, THE GREATEST THERE WAS, THE GREATEST THERE EVER WILL BE 🐐

FOREVER CRISTIANO 🐐

[Immanuel @immanuelste]

MY GOAT FOREVER
CR7

[B @utdbrxy]

loved every second of it

[TENIOLA @Teeniiola]

You’re not a real football fan if you mock Ronaldo tonight. Whether you support him or not, today is truly his final game for his country, respect the legend and everything he’s given to football.

[TC @totalcristiano]

I will forever love you.

[UG @UgwunnaEjikem]

A total of 471 players have won the World Cup. Only one player has scored over 975 goals.

A seven game tournament will never decide who the GOAT is, it will always be Cristiano Ronaldo. Yesterday, today and forever.

[jay @Jay_bigstepper]

Nigeria is a very bad place to be intelligent.

[LERRY @_AsiwajuLerry]

@Cristiano @selecaoportugal Form is temporary, Class is permanent 🐐

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

ESTAMOS AQUI!

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Cristiano Ronaldo: The first man to score at six #FIFAWorldCup tournaments

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

Most FIFA World Cups scored in by a player - 6 by Cristiano Ronaldo

Suiiiiii 🐐

[Felix @felixherbt]

Someone said Nigeria has become a torture chamber for smart people, and I couldn’t agree more.

[Shadow Monarch @BoogeyThat]

In Nigeria, It's not enough that you battle your oppressors. You also have to fight the willing slaves. And dem plenty.

[Immanuel @immanuelste]

@uglybeeb_ 🤣🤣

[Immanuel @immanuelste]

A moving man… 🚶

[Judah Olorunmaiye @JudahMaiye]

The average Christian thinks he's shining for Jesus by earning more money and accumulating more fame.
Even if his business empire overworks staff and underpays employees.

We need to learn what being a light of the world and salt of the earth really means.
The obsession with "success" has twisted our perspective in a way that we have become useless to God aside from helping to build our church cathedrals.

The real shining is to display the nature of God in a wicked world.
Not by having more wealth or glamour but by demonstrating more virtue.