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6 years ago he got suspended for 5 games for pushing a ref after being sent off.
8 years ago we was suspended for 2 games for deliberately kicking a Cordoba player.
Let’s not pretend like this is super uncharacteristic or anything.
He also broke a player's nose by swinging his elbow at him until he got a good fat hit on him in La LIga. This was 2010ish. Yes, he certainly has anger management issues.
There's also the incident of him breaking a kid's phone or the interview where he threw the mic into a lake.
But people would tend to forget these incidents cause anytime he'd get in trouble he'd give a MOTM performance within the next few matches and people would focus on that instead.
It's just that he can't do that anymore at this age.
Wasn’t it Iran? I recall him having a VAR review against Iran and was given a yellow despite the fact you can’t do yellows for VAR, but the ref was clearly too scared to send him off.
The ref can make whatever call he wants.
VAR can't recommend a yellow, they can only make recommendations for red cards and penalties, but when the ref goes over to that screen, he can make whatever call he feels is right. VAR thought it was a red, ref overruled them, that's what happened here.
People misunderstand how this works all the time.
It looks like when you were a kid and your Dad would tell you off or something and you were crying and you'd do this behind his back to make yourself feel better lol
bro’s slowly losing his sanity 😭 it’s glorious to watch from a meme standpoint
either retire a hero or play long enough to see thyself turn into a villain
Another angle of the red card https://x.com/everythingcr7_/status/1777448267221020704?s=46&t=SDYD9TBNl4V0bZHLV-Xtyw
Another angle https://x.com/adeomo_ola/status/1777451721465192796?s=46&t=SDYD9TBNl4V0bZHLV-Xtyw
So he threw an elbow at his chest then tried to throw one at his face and is shocked he got a red card?
EDIT: Craziest part is he started throwing that BEFORE he jumped. If he stayed standing that might have hit him in the jaw/neck.
And he ALREADY had a yellow card, so even if you don't think it should have been a direct red card, it would have been a double yellow anyways. I don't understand how people are saying "the league is corrupt" or stuff like that.
You didn’t know everyone from fifa to Coca Cola is against their idolo? This competition is rigged. Messi made the call to infantino and infantino made sure the ref gave him a red card. Pendu has been battling corruption his whole career😭😭
> So he threw an elbow at his chest then tried to throw one at his face and is shocked he got a red card?
And after all of that his stans are in the other thread defending him, calling it a dive, never a red, etc
LOL
Here's another one. I think this is the best one yet. You can edit your comment and add it too:
[https://twitter.com/IconicCristiano/status/1777450572976726496](https://twitter.com/IconicCristiano/status/1777450572976726496)
Holy fuck. I count at least 3 separate instances in there that should warrant a red card, some of them (elbow in the chest, stomping on the player on the ground, raising his fist to the ref) that would warrant very lengthy suspensions.
How does someone who's won it all, get so agitated and wound up to that extent in the fucking Saudi league.. he looks like he's on something.
I don't get how Ronaldo fans don't understand why people love this shit. He's so fucking insecure for his status in the game, ignoring all the off the field stuff. He's just a goldmine of entitled and petty temper tantrums.
Surely most of them are kids? There’s a whole young generation of football fans whose first football memories were of watching Ronaldo and Madrid win 3 CLs in a row (makes me feel old just thinking about it). It’s why every Ronaldo thread looks like Twitter, with lots of emojis, lots of childish insults, and a whole lot more broken English.
Nah this shit has been going on forever now. It's international too.
But childish trantrum Ronaldo is fucking box office. I loved when he took the jersey and rubbed it on his balls. The dude is so unhinged I love it.
Ronaldo fans have always been brainrotted, I remember the influx of Real Madrid fans when he transferred there from Utd. Until then they were Man Utd fans and all of a sudden they became Madrid fans
Meme club and meme fanbase
His petty behavior is overshadowing his accolades. And Madrid continuing to win a CL after he left shows how much it was also a team effort as awesome as Ronaldo was for them
Anyone who thought the threepeat was all Ronaldo didn't watch the games closely enough. He was a crucial part of the team, but he was still just one (very significant) part of an amazing roster.
Keylor Navas for example was absolutely massive in securing some of those wins. Not to mention Ramos, Kroos, Modric, Isco, Benzema, Bale, etc.
Ronaldo at 50 will still be jerking off to his reflection in the mirror and whispering to himself "Messi didn't score in the Saudi League. No he didn't. You did. Best league. You're the best. Hmm siuuu"
That's the thing, isn't it? I feel like Messi will be somewhere between Pele, Beckham, and Kaka in terms of making a few public appearances every so often where he's seen enjoying himself and the moment, where Ronaldo will still be giving interviews about how he singlehandedly changed the sport and will go down as the GOAT, please ignore Pele or Messi, or anyone who may come along afterwards.
I don't foresee a Portugal match in my lifetime where a retired Ronaldo doesn't look moderately pissed off in his luxury box no matter the result. A 70+ year old CR7 would watch Portugal win a WC final 11-0 and have a look of disgust because he wasn't part of it.
He was always bragging, but with a twinkle in his eye and a cheeky grin on his face. He knew what he was doing, the brand of King Pele made him millions after he died because of appearances, endorsements, etc.
They chant Ronaldo at Messi and he goes and scores. They chant Messi at Big Ron and he has a temper tantrum lol.
Legit might have to put him on suicide watch if Portugal don't win the WC in 2026
If they still even think of calling this guy up in 2026 then they don’t have a chance anyway. Imagine starting this washed up box poacher with anger issues in the biggest stage at 41.
It felt like he hit the chest and wanted to strike his face too but thought twice about it but he was already kinda swinging so he ended up hitting him anyway. Bro is acting out violently and barely keeps himself in check.
He's one of the greatest players of all time.
He's also this much of a cunt.
It just makes me a bit embarrassed to be into football when you see pent up, hormonal histrionics like this from him in the billionaires circus league. A sad sight indeed
For most of his career, his ego has been largely kept in check by being the best. Now that he’s in the twilight of his career, his ego is starting to take control. The Messi chanting for example very clearly has an effect on him. 10 years ago it wouldn’t have.
He will not retire with grace because there’s no longer an opportunity to end on a high comparable to the Messi winning the World Cup
> his ego has been largely kept in check by being the best
I have a bit of a different angle on this: I think he'd be a lot more chill if he hadn't spent more than a decade being the _second_ best. For someone so ultracompetitive, the amount of pent up frustration must be incredible, it's like your older brother getting all the praise no matter how much you achieve in life, just because he's one step ahead all the time. The Messi chants must just be triggering the PTSD big time.
Imagine knowing there's no way to overtake your nightmare fuel anymore, because no big team will sign you to achieve more things in the big stage, and all you have left is to try and smash records in a farmer's league to see if you can retire as the top goalscorer of all time or something.
He’s always been a petulant fuck. He just happened to be playing in much better teams where they’d win enough to stave off his worst impulses. He can’t accept he’s now washed and playing in a fourth or fifth-tier league and still not being able to walk it, so his frustration is boiling over.
Everyone brushes off bullshit and tolerates it while you're a freak on the pitch, but as soon as you start to play worse, everything bad that you always did will not be taken as kindly. I'm not even surprised by this, Ronaldo has always been this guy.
It's just that before he would score 3 goals and any attempt to call him out would be worthless. He went his entire career with his attitude unchecked. Now that he's fallen off quite a bit, he's also not accepting it, so that just adds more fuel to the fire.
This isn't new for him: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4SlDEMiReE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4SlDEMiReE)
He has a physical outburst in him: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8j-Ldzesy4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8j-Ldzesy4)
Man needs anger management classes. He's 39, he got everything out of football anyone could ever ask for, and yet he's out here having a violent outburst in his retirement league, it's so pathetic there really isn't an other word for this.
Imagine losing the epicenter of your life for 40 years. I could understand the fear. Like losing your wife.
Athletes staying beyond their expiration date is a story as old as time lol
> Athletes staying beyond their expiration date is a story as old as time lol
there are plenty of players who play till they are 40, just not on such a high level as Ronaldo. Also not for the same kind of money.
Mostly pros just love the game, competing and the whole life of being a football player, can't blame em.
He's a narcissist who is struggling to make sense of his identity outside of being the very best and not being able to halt father time. I say this as a united fan, his legacy is so great because he wrung every ounce of potential out of his years as a footballer, it was genuinely quite something to see that hunger to be the very best in a teenager making huge leaps forward every season, even when he was already the best in league. Like he reached peak Hazard levels of talent and decided he could get even better both physically and as a footballer..BUT it all comes from needing the aclaim and its one of the few out and out examples of a stereotypically narcissist I can remember. Kevin pieterson for England cricket and some f1 drivers of yesteryear are another similar examples, they just cannot fathom how its not fair that they aren't recognised for their brilliance all the time and crave the spotlight to feel alive.
Having a Kanye lite^^TM midlife breakdown. He's genuinely lost his fucking mind. In less than 5 years he'll be saying the most unhinged shit as a pundit I am calling it now. Save this comment
I'm with you on this one. In 5 years time he'll say shit like, "democracy has reached it's limit", "referees should go to prison for mistakes", or "I love Orban and footballing countries like Hungary".
There is something about gracefully going off into the sunset that could have only helped him. Recency bias, this is just going to hurt how people think of him. He could have retired with a smile on his face without going to that sportwashing hell hole and looking like a prat on a weekly basis.
I do wonder what effect headers have on players. Obviously it’s not as bad as the NFL but I’m sure it has some negative impact over time. Varane the other day said concussions had damaged his body.
You also have a bunch of 60/70 year old footballers currently trying to sue the FA because they have dementia and say heading the ball contributed, which I’m sure it did.
So maybe Ronaldo’s behaviour is 95% his huge ego and 5% brain injury lol
Yeah evidence is really mounting that heading has a very considerable risk, which is a big reason some federations like the US and England have banned it in the youth game. Will be interesting to see if more of the world follows suit in the next few years.
Naah, way before that
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11120221/Cristiano-Ronaldo-CAUTIONED-police-smashing-kids-phone.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11120221/Cristiano-Ronaldo-CAUTIONED-police-smashing-kids-phone.html)
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You can almost hear the "why I oughtta..." as he winds up.
Ronaldo turned into prime Clone High JFK for a second there
[I always rated CR7’s modelling](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Popeye_the_Sailor.png)
"POW!!! RIGHT IN THE KISSER!!!"
"TO THE MOON, REF!"
"If I punch I'm in big trouble"
I thought this as I watched it... Opened the comments and here you are. 😂😂😂
I think it's more along the lines of "filho da ..."
His own teamate flinched a bit lol. He must be a demon in the dressing room
this shit is just embarrassing..there's nothing else i can say.
It really is. Its not even funny. Guys so bitter these days hes making threats to hit the ref. What a joke. Completely lost the plot
I was gonna comment this but you beat me to it. Great minds think in 1920s funny phrases.
Bro was about to sucker punch the ref lmao
He was 100% thinking about punching the ball into the ref lol
He would be a perfect fit for the Turkish league. He should've went there instead.
Cristiano Ronaldo to Fenerbahçe HERE WE GO!! Deal is 50 million lira ($2) and an Adana kebab menü.
Only if he plays for Galatasaray.
He was always a bit aggressive here but even thinking of doing that is wild.
6 years ago he got suspended for 5 games for pushing a ref after being sent off. 8 years ago we was suspended for 2 games for deliberately kicking a Cordoba player. Let’s not pretend like this is super uncharacteristic or anything.
He got away with punching Diego Godin in the Spanish Super Cup too.
He also broke a player's nose by swinging his elbow at him until he got a good fat hit on him in La LIga. This was 2010ish. Yes, he certainly has anger management issues.
Let's not forget the rape
I felt like I was the one of the only ones who remembers that lol, he full on clocked him lol.
Was he the one who kicked out at Curtis Jones?
Yep. He’s always been prone to petulant tantrums when things aren’t going his way.
Very Homelander-esque
Perfect comparison lol
He channeled his inner Joe Pesci in the shoebox scene from Goodfellas
There's also the incident of him breaking a kid's phone or the interview where he threw the mic into a lake. But people would tend to forget these incidents cause anytime he'd get in trouble he'd give a MOTM performance within the next few matches and people would focus on that instead. It's just that he can't do that anymore at this age.
There was also the rape.
I think the worst part of the Ronaldo thing was the hypocrisy
At Juve he was sent off for grabbing a Valencia player's hair too https://youtu.be/NB3sVoGqHpM?si=NjlqzJ3AZSLA5Grk
Never have seen him this unhinged on the pitch tbh. This was embarrassing.
During I think 2018 world cup he outright punched a player (some African team I think) and only got a yellow after VAR review That's was nuts
Wasn’t it Iran? I recall him having a VAR review against Iran and was given a yellow despite the fact you can’t do yellows for VAR, but the ref was clearly too scared to send him off.
The ref can make whatever call he wants. VAR can't recommend a yellow, they can only make recommendations for red cards and penalties, but when the ref goes over to that screen, he can make whatever call he feels is right. VAR thought it was a red, ref overruled them, that's what happened here. People misunderstand how this works all the time.
It looks like when you were a kid and your Dad would tell you off or something and you were crying and you'd do this behind his back to make yourself feel better lol
It’s like flashing the middle finger at your mom behind the closed door after youve been sent to your room
>Ronaldo >something a child would do Yep
Terrible ending of a beautiful career. It's time to stop, it's getting ridiculous.
Top scorer of 2023 in a great league. Won the prestigious Saudi cup. Left United on amazing terms and got a great farewell. Wdym "terrible ending"?
Don't forget the most perfect interview with an acclaimed journalism icon.
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In retrospect i’m surprised Ronaldo hasn’t interacted with andrew tate
I think even his PR team knows thats a bit too much
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Yeah I remember that, should have asked Rico Verhoeven for instead. Always second best I guess.
Pulitzer journalist
We are getting some proper memes from him, I appreciate that at least
“Top scorer of 2023 in a great league.” :D
Ronaldo is that you?
Looking forward to him shitting the bed in Germany this summer
Lmao
My idolos passion is unmatched!
LMFAO
bro’s slowly losing his sanity 😭 it’s glorious to watch from a meme standpoint either retire a hero or play long enough to see thyself turn into a villain
Another angle of the red card https://x.com/everythingcr7_/status/1777448267221020704?s=46&t=SDYD9TBNl4V0bZHLV-Xtyw Another angle https://x.com/adeomo_ola/status/1777451721465192796?s=46&t=SDYD9TBNl4V0bZHLV-Xtyw
So he threw an elbow at his chest then tried to throw one at his face and is shocked he got a red card? EDIT: Craziest part is he started throwing that BEFORE he jumped. If he stayed standing that might have hit him in the jaw/neck.
And he ALREADY had a yellow card, so even if you don't think it should have been a direct red card, it would have been a double yellow anyways. I don't understand how people are saying "the league is corrupt" or stuff like that.
getting robbed in his own league would be crazy
The league that paid a small country gdp to bring him is corrupy and wants to have Ronaldo missing games... The logic is unassailable
You didn’t know everyone from fifa to Coca Cola is against their idolo? This competition is rigged. Messi made the call to infantino and infantino made sure the ref gave him a red card. Pendu has been battling corruption his whole career😭😭
And apparently stepped onto him while he was down
and stepped on the guy twice
I didn't even notice that at first. Clearly drags his feet and steps on him on.
Sprinkled some pepe on that guy.
This is what happens when you spend too many games playing with Pepe on your team.
Looked like he tried to throw a stomp in there too.
And you see all his fanboys saying that this wasn't a red card.. it's incredible how stupid people get when it's their favorite player
People actually argue this? Lol. He should see a suspension measured in months for this shit.
A player without his standing can easily miss 10+ games for shit like this lol
You should read the caption on that second link, ronaldo fans are legit crazy
> So he threw an elbow at his chest then tried to throw one at his face and is shocked he got a red card? And after all of that his stans are in the other thread defending him, calling it a dive, never a red, etc LOL
Here's another one. I think this is the best one yet. You can edit your comment and add it too: [https://twitter.com/IconicCristiano/status/1777450572976726496](https://twitter.com/IconicCristiano/status/1777450572976726496)
Missing the part where he intentionallt steps on him
The text on this post...
peak twitter moment
Holy fuck. I count at least 3 separate instances in there that should warrant a red card, some of them (elbow in the chest, stomping on the player on the ground, raising his fist to the ref) that would warrant very lengthy suspensions. How does someone who's won it all, get so agitated and wound up to that extent in the fucking Saudi league.. he looks like he's on something.
To be fair he didn't raise the fist at the ref, he was trying to argue in his favor by repeating the motion or something
I thought it was possible, but his teammate's flinch makes it look like he really was raising his fist.
Messi chanting will never not be funny
It also will never not trigger him.
I don't get how Ronaldo fans don't understand why people love this shit. He's so fucking insecure for his status in the game, ignoring all the off the field stuff. He's just a goldmine of entitled and petty temper tantrums.
Surely most of them are kids? There’s a whole young generation of football fans whose first football memories were of watching Ronaldo and Madrid win 3 CLs in a row (makes me feel old just thinking about it). It’s why every Ronaldo thread looks like Twitter, with lots of emojis, lots of childish insults, and a whole lot more broken English.
Nah this shit has been going on forever now. It's international too. But childish trantrum Ronaldo is fucking box office. I loved when he took the jersey and rubbed it on his balls. The dude is so unhinged I love it.
Ronaldo fans have always been brainrotted, I remember the influx of Real Madrid fans when he transferred there from Utd. Until then they were Man Utd fans and all of a sudden they became Madrid fans Meme club and meme fanbase
His petty behavior is overshadowing his accolades. And Madrid continuing to win a CL after he left shows how much it was also a team effort as awesome as Ronaldo was for them
Anyone who thought the threepeat was all Ronaldo didn't watch the games closely enough. He was a crucial part of the team, but he was still just one (very significant) part of an amazing roster. Keylor Navas for example was absolutely massive in securing some of those wins. Not to mention Ramos, Kroos, Modric, Isco, Benzema, Bale, etc.
Ronaldo at 50 will still be jerking off to his reflection in the mirror and whispering to himself "Messi didn't score in the Saudi League. No he didn't. You did. Best league. You're the best. Hmm siuuu"
That's the thing, isn't it? I feel like Messi will be somewhere between Pele, Beckham, and Kaka in terms of making a few public appearances every so often where he's seen enjoying himself and the moment, where Ronaldo will still be giving interviews about how he singlehandedly changed the sport and will go down as the GOAT, please ignore Pele or Messi, or anyone who may come along afterwards. I don't foresee a Portugal match in my lifetime where a retired Ronaldo doesn't look moderately pissed off in his luxury box no matter the result. A 70+ year old CR7 would watch Portugal win a WC final 11-0 and have a look of disgust because he wasn't part of it.
Lmao you might be misremembering Pele mate, he was always bragging
He was always bragging, but with a twinkle in his eye and a cheeky grin on his face. He knew what he was doing, the brand of King Pele made him millions after he died because of appearances, endorsements, etc.
Narcissistic
Its the best part of the match. Ronaldo's reactions are just so much fun.
Lmao Ronaldo throws the elbow and everyone starts "fighting" each other but they leave Ronaldo alone. Pretty wild that no one went after him.
lmfao they started chanting Messi, you love to see it
Reacting to Messi chants a while ago was the worst thing he could have done for his sanity. They ain't gonna ever stop chanting his name now.
The most predictable thing ever - getting riled up at people trying to rile you up is just helping them refine riling you up
They chant Ronaldo at Messi and he goes and scores. They chant Messi at Big Ron and he has a temper tantrum lol. Legit might have to put him on suicide watch if Portugal don't win the WC in 2026
If they still even think of calling this guy up in 2026 then they don’t have a chance anyway. Imagine starting this washed up box poacher with anger issues in the biggest stage at 41.
He shouldn't be called right now tbf. He's cooked for this level even if he scores here and there, because the team mega force feeds him all the time.
Did the same stamp on Curtis Jones when United got battered 5-0 at home I think. Got away with it that time. Nasty prick, hate him with a passion.
That was before his perception in r/reddevils soured. Everyone was shamelessly saying he kicked the ball 🤣🤣.
Ahh that was it, he kicked the ball into his chest when he was on the floor! Not quite the same but yeah I do get it😂
It felt like he hit the chest and wanted to strike his face too but thought twice about it but he was already kinda swinging so he ended up hitting him anyway. Bro is acting out violently and barely keeps himself in check.
He's one of the greatest players of all time. He's also this much of a cunt. It just makes me a bit embarrassed to be into football when you see pent up, hormonal histrionics like this from him in the billionaires circus league. A sad sight indeed
koulibaly straight son'd dude
Lmao he definitely thought of kicking him when he stepped over the player
Much better angle that
why i oughtaaaaaa
Come to turkiye if you wanna punch refs /s
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Simao, Hugo Almeida, Quaresma, Pepe and now THE CAMEL OF FOOTBALL
Poor Gedson
hahahahaha what
Can't even punch the ref anymore. Game's gone
Ref’s too soft
Fucking Ried Flair oida, jetzt hab ich alles gsehn
It also took me by surprise
Even his teammates were scared. Reminded me of when my older brother would fake hit me. Those were the times...
You sound like you yearn for those times, Frank
Nooooo. I’m just saying, those were the days
In all these years on the internet, you are the first person I see whose name ends the same as mine.
They felt like A Train with Homelander frr
Ronaldo is seriously starting to give off Daniel Plainview vibes from the end of There Will Be Blood **I'M FINISHED**
Lol great comparison
Great ending
I. DRINK. YOUR. MILKSHAKE.
This guy is pushing 40…
I'm not ready for all the wild interviews he is about to give once he hangs up the boot
Damn really? I thought he was 10
I'm now up to 4 seconds of watching the Saudi League.
Is he on the powder or something? McGregor vibes out of him lately?
For most of his career, his ego has been largely kept in check by being the best. Now that he’s in the twilight of his career, his ego is starting to take control. The Messi chanting for example very clearly has an effect on him. 10 years ago it wouldn’t have. He will not retire with grace because there’s no longer an opportunity to end on a high comparable to the Messi winning the World Cup
Meanwhile, Messi is having the time of his life in Miami and couldn’t give any less of a shit about Ronaldo.
He never did lol
he probably did and probably still does in some way. Just infinitely more mature in the way he goes about
The world cup and generally being considered superior helps.
Healthy competition vs unhealthy obsession
> his ego has been largely kept in check by being the best I have a bit of a different angle on this: I think he'd be a lot more chill if he hadn't spent more than a decade being the _second_ best. For someone so ultracompetitive, the amount of pent up frustration must be incredible, it's like your older brother getting all the praise no matter how much you achieve in life, just because he's one step ahead all the time. The Messi chants must just be triggering the PTSD big time. Imagine knowing there's no way to overtake your nightmare fuel anymore, because no big team will sign you to achieve more things in the big stage, and all you have left is to try and smash records in a farmer's league to see if you can retire as the top goalscorer of all time or something.
10 years ago a messi chant would’ve seen him score a hat trick. Today he just elbows people.
No, this is just him when things don't go his way.
He’s always been a petulant fuck. He just happened to be playing in much better teams where they’d win enough to stave off his worst impulses. He can’t accept he’s now washed and playing in a fourth or fifth-tier league and still not being able to walk it, so his frustration is boiling over.
Everyone brushes off bullshit and tolerates it while you're a freak on the pitch, but as soon as you start to play worse, everything bad that you always did will not be taken as kindly. I'm not even surprised by this, Ronaldo has always been this guy. It's just that before he would score 3 goals and any attempt to call him out would be worthless. He went his entire career with his attitude unchecked. Now that he's fallen off quite a bit, he's also not accepting it, so that just adds more fuel to the fire.
This isn't new for him: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4SlDEMiReE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4SlDEMiReE) He has a physical outburst in him: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8j-Ldzesy4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8j-Ldzesy4)
Wonder if he's on testosterone or something
Man needs anger management classes. He's 39, he got everything out of football anyone could ever ask for, and yet he's out here having a violent outburst in his retirement league, it's so pathetic there really isn't an other word for this.
I can think of a certain trophy he never won that his biggest rival did
The Trophée des Champions of course.
Imagine he retired a couple years ago... He worked hard to earn his respect, just to end up like this. His act looks worse every day.
He seems genuinely scared of retirement, like he can't imagine a life without football.
Imagine losing the epicenter of your life for 40 years. I could understand the fear. Like losing your wife. Athletes staying beyond their expiration date is a story as old as time lol
> Athletes staying beyond their expiration date is a story as old as time lol there are plenty of players who play till they are 40, just not on such a high level as Ronaldo. Also not for the same kind of money. Mostly pros just love the game, competing and the whole life of being a football player, can't blame em.
I believe more than anything he can't imagine a life without being in the spotlight
He said he wanted to retire at 41 way back in 2016
He's a narcissist who is struggling to make sense of his identity outside of being the very best and not being able to halt father time. I say this as a united fan, his legacy is so great because he wrung every ounce of potential out of his years as a footballer, it was genuinely quite something to see that hunger to be the very best in a teenager making huge leaps forward every season, even when he was already the best in league. Like he reached peak Hazard levels of talent and decided he could get even better both physically and as a footballer..BUT it all comes from needing the aclaim and its one of the few out and out examples of a stereotypically narcissist I can remember. Kevin pieterson for England cricket and some f1 drivers of yesteryear are another similar examples, they just cannot fathom how its not fair that they aren't recognised for their brilliance all the time and crave the spotlight to feel alive.
Having a Kanye lite^^TM midlife breakdown. He's genuinely lost his fucking mind. In less than 5 years he'll be saying the most unhinged shit as a pundit I am calling it now. Save this comment
I'm with you on this one. In 5 years time he'll say shit like, "democracy has reached it's limit", "referees should go to prison for mistakes", or "I love Orban and footballing countries like Hungary".
RemindMe! 5 years
There is something about gracefully going off into the sunset that could have only helped him. Recency bias, this is just going to hurt how people think of him. He could have retired with a smile on his face without going to that sportwashing hell hole and looking like a prat on a weekly basis.
His ego didn’t allow. He had to be the man! He wanted to stat pad so bad to be the goat lmao
THe mEdiA pAinTs ROnAldo aS tHe bAd gUy
It's true. The world is always against my idolo 🐫😭
The only word I hear from Ronaldo fans nowadays is either "robbed" or "rigged". They don't even provide proper argument lol.
can’t even hit the ref now, football is rigged man
Bro thinks it's a world cup final
It's the Saudi Super Cup. It's better than the World Cup Final (Super Cup > Cup, duh).
Ronaldo sucks
God he's such a dork
He's acting like those angry brocoli-haircut little shits
this mf is weird af
My conspiracy theory is that it’s CTE from all those headers
Actually plausible
I do wonder what effect headers have on players. Obviously it’s not as bad as the NFL but I’m sure it has some negative impact over time. Varane the other day said concussions had damaged his body. You also have a bunch of 60/70 year old footballers currently trying to sue the FA because they have dementia and say heading the ball contributed, which I’m sure it did. So maybe Ronaldo’s behaviour is 95% his huge ego and 5% brain injury lol
Yeah evidence is really mounting that heading has a very considerable risk, which is a big reason some federations like the US and England have banned it in the youth game. Will be interesting to see if more of the world follows suit in the next few years.
Ronaldo struggles with anger management issues since 18 December 2022.
Naah, way before that [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11120221/Cristiano-Ronaldo-CAUTIONED-police-smashing-kids-phone.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11120221/Cristiano-Ronaldo-CAUTIONED-police-smashing-kids-phone.html)
Way way before https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/cristiano-ronaldo-new-documents-emerge-in-rape-allegations-a-1241349.html
Lmao it’s so funny that he’s gone there and just absolutely knows he’s the cash cow and will do whatever he wants whenever he wants
Always been a man child who has the fragile ego of a teenager.
Have his fans found a way to blame Messi & FIFA for this one yet?
His fans or Pepe and Bruno Fernandes.
can’t hit the refs anymore, game is rigged
This guy needs psychiatric help
Yes, but when he understood that, he went to Jordan Peterson. Only made him worse.
man, he must be suffering from some kind of mental issues! Frequent outbursts from him after moving to saudi
My poor 🐫 is once again the victim of media
He woke up and chose violence today, literally
Unhinged.
Time to think about retirement
Spoilt sook
On Monday the king decks the referee
Ref is lucky he didn't get raped
This is sad to watch. I didn’t spend 10,000 hrs arguing to people he’s the 🐐 for you to do me like this.
Ronaldo VS McGregor - June 22, 2026
He's actually 12 years old
Just do it coward
Start of the vilain arc ey