MOSCOW, Sep 7 Saudi Al-Nasr striker Cristiano Ronaldo called the situation in the Portuguese football championship a circus.
Earlier, the striker said that he would not return to European football, because his level had fallen.
“There are contradictions in every league, but in Portugal there are a lot of them. that it will be corrected. I recently opened a newspaper to see what they write, and the first three articles were not about football. It makes you think and say that now the most important thing is the bad news, «Ronaldo is quoted as saying by Record.
The forward believes that the championship of Portugal is inferior to the English Premier League (EPL), La Liga and the Bundesliga.
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“I thought she could be in the top four or five, but now I don’t believe it. I think that the Arab league is better than the Portuguese one. It's not just about contradictions. There is not so much noise here, the names are much louder. I hope the Portuguese league can get better, I know it will be difficult. Probably not possible. What has been happening lately is turning into a circus,» the player added.
Ronaldo is a five-time winner of the Ballon d'Or. Throughout his career, he represented the Portuguese «Sporting», the English «Manchester United», the Spanish «Real» and the Italian «Juventus». He won the Champions League five times, three times — the champion of England, two times — the champion of Spain and Italy. Ronaldo won the European Championship (2016) and the League of Nations (2018/19) as part of the Portuguese national team.