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My goal was better than Salah’s – Cristiano Ronaldo

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6 years ago

September 29, 2018

Cristiano Ronaldo believes the overhead bicycle kick he scored for Real Madrid against his current club Juventus last season was better than Mohamed Salah ’ s which won the FIFA goal of the year award .“Salah deserved to win the Puskas award , it was a good goal . But let ’ s be honest , let ’ s not lie to ourselves , my goal was the best, ” Ronaldo told his 142 million Instagram followers .

The 33 -year -old Portuguese star lost out to former Real Madrid teammate Luka Modric for the FIFA best player award and to Liverpool ’ s Salah for the Puskas Award for the best goal .

Salah won the award for his curling strike against Everton in the Premier League in December .
“I ’ m not disappointed , life is like that , sometimes you win and others lose , what interests me is that in 15 years of career I managed to maintain the same levels of performance, ” Ronaldo said.

“Awards are awards … I already have a lot. I play to win and not to win awards . ”

Five days after the awards ceremony in London — which he did not attend — five -time Ballon d ’ Or winner Ronaldo hailed his former Real teammate , saying : “Congratulations to everyone , to Modric, best player of the year according to FIFA . ”

Ronaldo scored his acrobatic goal in the Champions League quarter -finals against Juventus before joining the Serie A giants just months later .

The reigning seven -time Italian champions take on Napoli in a top -of -the – table clash Saturday . Juventus lead Napoli by three points after six games.

“It will be a good game , we want to win against a great team , it ’ s an important day , ” added Ronaldo .

( AFP )