“My ardour is excessive and I need to proceed. It would not matter the place I play, whether or not within the Center East or Europe. I at all times take pleasure in taking part in soccer and I need to hold going.

“You recognize what my purpose is. I need to win trophies and I need to attain that quantity [1,000 goals] that you simply all know. I’ll attain the quantity for certain, if no accidents.”

In an interview with Piers Morgan final month, exterior, Ronaldo mentioned he deliberate to retire from soccer “quickly”.

“I believe I shall be ready. Will probably be robust, after all. I’ll most likely cry,” mentioned Ronaldo.

Ronaldo has scored 13 objectives in 14 appearances this season for Al-Nassr, who’re 4 factors clear on the prime of the Saudi Professional League desk.

Regardless of the ahead’s document of 112 objectives in 125 appearances, Al-Nassr have solely received one piece of silverware – the Arab Membership Champions Cup in 2023 – since his arrival.

Ronaldo holds the document for many objectives for Portugal (143) and Actual Madrid (450), and is the one participant to have scored 100+ objectives for 4 golf equipment – Manchester United, Actual Madrid, Juventus and Al-Nassr.

The striker mentioned in November that the 2026 World Cup in america, Canada and Mexico shall be his final worldwide match.

He captained Portugal as they received Euro 2016 in France – the nation’s first worldwide males’s trophy.