Portugues football star Cristiano Ronaldo has hinted that he could retire from football and go into business in three years’ time.
Speaking in Podcast chat with former teammate Rio Ferdinand after scoring his latest goal for Al Nassr, against Al Rayyan in the AFC Champions League, Ronaldo, 39, said: I’m enjoying playing football now as I know I don’t have much time left on the pitch. It is not important to me now to be the best player or to win awards. What is important to me now is to enjoy and help my team.”
“I’m going to miss the adrenaline of scoring a goal, and [the feeling] of being nervous.
“I think I’m going to miss that because in other part of me, I can control that. I have good people around me, good business, I have good things. But I [will miss that] the adrenaline of football is never going to exist [again]. This is why I’m going further than football.
“I give everything, to 40, 41, it doesn’t matter. I give my body for 25 years of football and I cannot give more because age doesn’t allow to go further. This is why I extend and take care of myself and keep working. Because I know for two or three years more I can still produce something good.
“But after that I don’t even want to think about that. Let me think in the present and prepare other parts, like my business area. I will miss it, and I will probably be a little lost.”
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