Ronaldo wins yet another award!
Cristiano Ronaldo’s outrageous overhead kick for Real Madrid in their Champions League quarter-final clash with Juventus has been voted UEFA’s Goal of the Season for 2018.
Ronaldo commands an impressive assemblage of jaw-dropping strikes on his personal showreel, but an acrobatic bicycle kick at the semi finals of a champions league match at the Allianz Stadium is considered to be his very best.
The five-time Ballon d’Or winner has admitted as much, with the 33-year-old stating at his unveiling as DAZN’s first Global Ambassador: “[It] was in my opinion one of the best goals of my career so far.
“And, of course, when the people started to applaud me in the stadium I was like, ‘wow’.
“[It] surprised me a lot because this has never happened in my life, so it was an unbelievable moment.”
Ronaldo’s effort in the first leg of the last-eight encounter in Turin helped Real to establish a 3-0 lead over Juventus.
They were to see that lead whittled away on home soil, but ultimately prevailed courtesy of another timely effort from a talismanic presence – with Ronaldo netting a dramatic penalty at the Santiago Bernabeu.
He would go on to help the Blancos conquer Europe for a third year in succession, landing him a fifth continental crown, while also finishing as the Champions League’s top scorer.
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