2023 is coming to an end, and for the 38-year-old Ronaldo, this is a memorable year: bidding farewell to European football and coming to Saudi Arabia to pan for gold. Ronaldo, who has 53 goals a year, told the world with facts: he is not here to retire and mess around when he plays in Saudi Arabia.
Pep Guardiola has confirmed that Erling Haaland will miss Manchester City's final game of the year. This means that Ronaldo, who has 53 goals a year (1 game left), beats Mbappe (52 goals), Kane (52 goals), and Haaland (50 goals), and is crowned the global scorer of the year in advance!
Worldwide, there are two institutions that award the honorary trophy of the "Global Shooter of the Year":
One is the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), an authoritative world-class football organization. IFFHS's selection criteria for the world's top scorers are based on the annual total number of goals scored by players playing in top leagues - whether it is the Premier League, La Liga, Chinese Super League, or Saudi Professional League, as long as it is a top league recognized by FIFA, the goals are counted.
The second is the "Goalscorer of the Year" award at the Globe Soccer Awards, also known as the "Maradona Award", which is awarded to the player with the most goals in the top league in the year.
The 38-year-old Ronaldo has scored 53 goals and 15 assists in 58 appearances in 2023. In addition, Ronaldo also won the Arab Champions Cup (not an official FIFA event) and the Golden Boot award. In the Portuguese national team, Ronaldo led the team to the main match of the European Championship, and the national team has played more than 200 games. Considering that Ronaldo is a 38-year-old veteran, such a result can be regarded as a success, even a brilliant achievement.
As mentioned above, Ronaldo, who has 53 goals a year, will receive two trophies in January next year: the IFFHS Global Goalscorer of the Year and the "Maradona Award" presented by the Global Football Awards. Approaching the age of retirement, Ronaldo is still fighting, which can be regarded as an inspirational story.
Cristiano Ronaldo will be crowned IFFHS's Global Goalscorer of the Year honour five times: in 2011 (60 goals), 2013 (69 goals), 2014 (61 goals), 2015 (57 goals), 2023. The first 4 times won the global scorer king, Ronaldo played for Real Madrid, and the goals were all in La Liga, the Champions League, and the fifth time the global scorer king, Ronaldo killed all sides in Saudi Arabia.
Messi won the global goalscorer king twice (91 goals in 2012, 58 goals in 2016), Lewandowski won the award twice (47 goals in 2020, 69 goals in 2021), Mbappe won 1 time (56 goals in 2022), and the three superstars combined, a total of 5 times won the IFFHS annual global goalscorer king trophy, and Ronaldo alone has 5 ......