Sir Alex Ferguson has today spoken of his pride in Cristiano Ronaldo for winning the Ballon d’Or. To think that just as we missed out on having Ruud van Nistelrooy playing in a United shirt when scoring the goal to make him the highest ever scorer in the Champions League, we could have missed out on this moment with Ronaldo had he too signed for Real Madrid.
Instead, Ronaldo becomes our fourth player to win the prize, meaning just five clubs in Europe have more winners than us.
With the likes of Bryan Robson, Eric Cantona, David Beckham, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, to name a few, always missing out on the award, Ferguson believes this winner has been a long time coming, some 40 years after George Best won it following our European Cup win in 1968.
“We are very proud,” said Ferguson. “Manchester United had been waiting for this for 40 years. Cristiano is in the tradition of our three other Ballons d’Or. His award is beyond all possible dispute. He is only 23 years old. His best years are ahead of him. In life, you have two categories of people. Those who reach their goal and go to bed saying to themselves, ‘I made it’ and the other ones, who are driven by will, desire. These ones, when they win the trophy, they say to themselves ‘I go on’… Ronaldo has that sparkle in himself.”
After Ronaldo won the trophy he claimed he was not surprised, but vowed to become and even better player.
“Great emotion fills me but I cannot really describe it,” he said. “I want to thank those who voted for me, those who know me and those who live with me. I was not worried, because I was aware of what I did in the course of the season. But to the people who mentioned my name, I say thank you. Thank you also to my team-mates. This (trophy) is one that I want to win again because it is so good. Therefore, I will wake and I will say to myself, ‘I want to be even better’.”
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even though he did manage to make our summer less pleasurable(considerably less)..am genuinly happy for the boy..
wonder how this award is gonna affect his mentality.. i cant help but feel that winning these types of awards was one of the reasons he wanted to join real in the first place..i bet he felt he was much more likely to get it if he had signed for them
now that its over n the awards have come i hope he appreciates everything the club has done for him now, we have stood by him after the world cup, against the critics, whenever anyone belittled his achievements, and whenever he was actually at fault.. he wouldnt find this kind of support at any of the other big clubs in europe, especially not from those handkerchief waving muppets at madrid
It’s a great achievement and thoroughly deserved. One would like to think it would silence the critics for a while, but then deep down we have to admit we sometimes share the doubts about him – his self-regarding narcissism, his flirtation with Real, his diving (less than it was), his tendency to go missing in really big matches, and a suspicion that he’s not a team player in the same way as, say, a Giggs or a Rooney. Having said all that, and admitting he hasn’t yet won a place in my heart like George Best, Denis Law or Bobby Charlton (all of whom I saw many times) , Ronaldo has still provided some of the most intoxicating moments of my 50-plus years of supporting United. He’s still just a kid, which sometimes shows, and he undoubtedly has it in him to go on to be the one of the greatest .He has the skill, that’s for sure, and the physical courage. The Ballon is in his court, let’s hope he now goes on to even more glory with United.
Well done
Ronaldo is a show-man, an entertainer, a trickster – AND a damned-good football player. He scores goals in the face of intimidation and derision and little “protection” from referees. Best of all, he plays for UTD and is only going to get better.
Tomorrow Night or Saturday Evening should be celebration of the fact we have Europe’s best player in our side . Alas it won’t happen because some of our uber super reddder than red support won’t back down leave the lad alone.
Viva Ronaldo,
Viva Ronaldo,
He’s the worlds best
SO FUCK THE REST.
VIVA RONALDO!!
in moscow we made it three…Giles oakley and denton…all spot on in your summaries of ronaldo..the man, the player, the fans etc etc. Couldnt have put it better myself if id tried…
Congrats Ronster..well done indeed. another chapter for our utd history books..Are you watching dips and shitty?
Well done Ron. Great post Giles
He certainly deserves it and while I’m happy for him entirely, I do hope this doesn’t inflate his ego even more.
I AM SO HAPPY FOR MY FRIEND AND I WILL SAY THIS AGAIN RONALDO DESERVES MORE. I THANK ALL THE TEAM MATES THAT MADE THIS FEAT POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO WIN THE TROPHY.ALL THE BEST TO THE REST