Cristiano Ronaldo made Saudi Professional League historical past on Monday night time when he turned the primary participant to attain 35 objectives in a single season.
The 39-year-old reached the landmark after netting twice in Al Nassr’s 4-2 win over Al-Ittihad on the ultimate day of the 2023/24 marketing campaign.
Al Nassr completed in second place within the Saudi Professional League, 14 factors behind champions Al-Hilal – who ended the season unbeaten.
However Ronaldo gained the Golden Boot as his tally of 35 objectives in 31 video games noticed him end properly away from his nearest challenger, Al-Hilal’s Aleksandar Mitrovic – with 28 objectives in 28 matches.
It’s no secret that particular person accolades matter an awesome deal to Ronaldo and the previous Actual Madrid star celebrated wildly after objective no.35 hit the online.
Ronaldo then took to social media in a while Monday night time and celebrated some extra by posting a graphic created to mark his report.
He shared the graphic on X.com alongside the caption: “I don’t comply with the information, the information comply with me.”
I don’t comply with the information, the information comply with me. 🇸🇦 pic.twitter.com/rqywmmTfZD
— Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) Could 27, 2024
It was not the primary time that Ronaldo had made this assertion.
He mentioned the exact same 9 phrases in 2019 throughout his first sit-down interview with Piers Morgan.
On that event, Ronaldo was responding to Morgan placing it to him that, though he was a “group participant”, he “loves particular person awards, they matter to you”.
Ronaldo replied: “It’s a part of my sacrifice, my obsession to win, to have success. Once I say success, I work for that. Expertise isn’t sufficient. I dedicate myself a lot that that is a part of me, information is a part of me. I don’t comply with the information, the information comply with me.”
“I don’t comply with the information, the information comply with me” 👏👏#RonaldoMeetsPiers @piersmorgan @Cristiano pic.twitter.com/PuWJXn4IHq
— ITV (@ITV) September 17, 2019
Journalist Morgan interviewed Ronaldo once more in 2022 after the participant had misplaced his place in Manchester United’s beginning XI.
Throughout this interview – which aired shortly earlier than United terminated his contract – Ronaldo repeated his earlier quote.
This time Ronaldo was reacting to Morgan mentioning that his return to Previous Trafford a yr earlier had seen him break a shirt gross sales report beforehand set by Lionel Messi.
He replied: “As you understand, I don’t comply with the information, the information comply with me. So it’s good. One other one in my e book.”
In addition to promoting a great deal of shirts and scoring for enjoyable in Saudi Arabia, Ronaldo holds the report for many top-level objectives within the historical past of males’s soccer.
Together with Monday’s double for Al Nassr, Ronaldo has now bagged 893 objectives in his senior profession.
