Kaka: If there is no perfection in this world, then Ronaldo is the closest to perfection!

"Perfect Incarnation" in Kaka's eyes: How did Ronaldo use 923 balls to rewrite the history of football?

> From a poor boy on Madeira to a football legend with 923 goals, his career is an epic that never compromises.

In early 2025, Ronaldo, who had just turned 40, said that shocking football statement in front of the six Spanish Channel: "I am the best player in history." His eyes were as sharp as before.

Just a few months ago, national team coach Martinez crowned him with a set of data: 25 games, 20 goals, and the age-old efficiency of 39-year-old crushed countless young forwards. The comment from former teammate Kaka is particularly eye-catching at this moment: "If there is no perfection in this world, then Ronaldo is the closest to perfection!"

01 Falling at the peak, the legendary immortal

Ronaldo in 2022 experienced the most violent free fall in his career.

That spring, at the age of 37, he was still the king of the Premier League: he defeated Tottenham and Norwich with two hat-tricks, and Tarzan's header scored and his long-lost free kick directly scored, which made the whole world amazed his myth of reversing age.

The crisis came unexpectedly.

The transfer farce in the summer window, absence of pre-season training, and a cliff-like decline in form, eventually evolved into a breakup with Manchester United.

Qatar World Cup has become a cruel witness - the knockout stage has become a substitute, and Portugal has stopped in the quarterfinals. When he walked through the player channel with tears in his eyes, the football world almost determined that a generation of legends came to an end.

02 Saudi Arabia is reborn against age

When everyone thinks that Ronaldo will disappear in the spotlight of the five major leagues, the green field of Riyadh won becomes his rebirth temple.

In August 2023, facing the Riyadh youth, Ronaldo scored twice in a penalty kick and gave an assist, winning the highest score of 9.1 points. What's even more amazing is the data of the next two rounds of leagues: 5 goals, 2 assists, 1 mid-post conversion goal, creating a dominant performance of 8 goals.

Age is just a number in front of him. In November 2023, the 38-year-old Ronaldo scored twice in 3 minutes, and his ultra-long lob shot was amazed by the audience.

that season he contributed 24 goals and 9 assists in 24 games, and led the Saudi league scorer list and assists list.

03 Perfect specimen, the perfection of Ronaldo is first engraved on the terrifying data monument. 923 professional goals and 517 first-tier league goals. Behind these numbers is anti-human self-discipline and evolution.

Former Manchester United teammate Ferdinand sighed in the podcast: "People who can score more than 900 goals are not based on luck. For that chance to make up for the shot, he may have to run eighty or ninety times in the whole game. The real difficulty lies in the training year after year, countless unball runs."

From the wing lightning of the Manchester United era, to the ultimate killer of the Real Madrid era, and then to the king of the penalty area during Juventus era, Ronaldo has experienced three successful transformations in his career.

Martinez accurately pointed out: "He used to be as sharp as electric current on the wing, and finally made history with his shot and the last shot."

04 The dark side of the controversy, the real crack

perfect does not mean there is no crack. The public break with Manchester United in 2022, the locker room shock caused by the World Cup substitute storm, and the public opinion tsunami triggered by the saying "I am the best in history" - these controversies constitute the other side of Ronaldo.

His persistence in personal achievement is sometimes like a double-edged sword. When Ferdinand admitted that he "had thought he should withdraw from the national team", Ronaldo used his European League championship and 20 goals in 25 games to leave doubters speechless.

Even Kaka's "near perfection theory" implies a profound philosophical meaning - there is no perfect person in this world, but Ronaldo pushed the limits of human players to an unprecedented level.

05 National Totem, Eternal Heritage

When Ronaldo directed in tears on the sidelines of the 2016 European Cup final, the history of Portuguese football has been rewritten.

Ferdinand pointed out the essential subversion: "Before Ronaldo, there were almost no national team trophy in Portugal. Now, they have three major competitions. Ronaldo has changed the history of Portuguese football."

From Figo's "golden generation" to the emergence of new generations of players, Ronaldo has built a bridge to glory.

Martinez was amazed at the football genes of this country with a population of tens of millions: "A group of 10 to 15 elite rookies can emerge every year." And the starting point of this wave is the football faith that Ronaldo brings to the entire nation.

When Ronaldo made his iconic "SIU" celebration after scoring a hat trick in the Saudi league, a young fan in the stands held a sign: "Tell me who is 40 years old, and I will tell you who is the god!" Behind the 923 goals is his paranoid shooting 100 times more than his opponent every day, his stubbornness to refuse to bow to his age, and the "closeest to perfection" professional specimen in Kaka's mouth.

Kaka's praise is not the end.

The story of this football legend is still being written - When the horn of the 2026 US, Canada and Mexico World Cup is sounded, will the 41-year-old Ronaldo embark on the sixth World Cup journey?