Report .. What did Ronaldo do after thirty?

It is usual for a football player to give less than thirty years of age, as his physical abilities decline, and consequently his participation rates decline in most cases, and he may turn to playing in less competitive competitions, during which less speed and physical efforts suffice in order to achieve the required goals.

But the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo has become an extraordinary exception, and has maintained legendary rates of individual and collective achievement after reaching thirty years of age, which put him in a very special place a few months before his thirty-sixth year.

Ronaldo is preparing to lead the Portuguese national team at 9:15 p.m. today, Sunday, at the top of Group Three at the first level of the European Nations League, against the French World Cup holders, one month after he crossed the hundred mark in terms of international goals.

Ronaldo scored two goals against the Swedish national team, in the same continental competition, to raise his score to 101 international goals, and to become the second player in football history to exceed the hundred barrier at the international level, after Iranian Ali Daei, the leader with 109 goals.

Ronaldos international career has undergone an exceptional transformation after reaching the age of thirty, as he scored 52 goals in 118 games before his 30th, averaging 0.44 goals / matches, while that ratio rose to 1.02 goals / games after reaching the age of thirty, scoring 49 goals in 48 games.

One of the pioneers of social media summarized the value of Ronaldo as “not belonging to humans,” while Ronaldo himself said in an interview with France Football magazine in 2018, where he said: “I am a different athlete, I am a different person, with a different mentality.”

Ronaldo led his country to achieve the two most prominent achievements in its history after reaching thirty years of age, as he carried the European Nations Cup in French lands in 2016 after beating the owners of the land in the final confrontation, and he carried the first edition of the European Nations League in 2019, after the Portuguese team won among its fans on The Dutch national team in the final match.

Ronaldo has participated in 300 club and national matches since he was 30 years old, during which he scored 279 goals for Real Madrid and Juventus, Italy, as well as the Portuguese national team, with a rate of 0.93 goals / matches, and he won thirteen different titles during that era.

At the age of 35, Ronaldo scored 31 goals for Juventus in the Italian Serie A last season, a figure that no Juventus player had surpassed for 86 years, after Felice Borrell scored 32 goals during the 1933/34 season, and only approached his number. Ronaldo since then.

After Ronaldo reached thirty years before the end of the 2014/2015 season, he scored 51 goals in the following season with Real Madrid, then scored 42 goals and 44 goals respectively in the next two seasons, before scoring 28 goals and 37 goals in two seasons with Juventus.

Ronaldo won the European Champions League three times after the barrier of thirty, and also won the Club World Cup twice, and scored the same in the Italian first division, in addition to a title in each of the European Super Cup, the Spanish First Division, the Spanish Super Cup, the Italian Super Cup, European Nations Cup and European Nations League.