Cristiano: “Football played by women has stopped hitting the crossbar”

• Cristiano Ronaldo expressed his “enormous pride” in the development of women’s football in his native Portugal, which, in his opinion, “stopped hitting the crossbar” and is now “scoring goals and making children happy women all over the country.”

The greatest figure of Portuguese football of all time left a message that was read on ‘Champions Gala’, an award ceremony dedicated to women’s football and futsal that took place on Monday night outside Lisbon, “the first of many celebrations that praise, reward, recognize and perpetuate the football played by women. “

In his text, christian charted the evolution of women’s football, “a just cause, proudly solid and emotionally seriously.”

“Only now, in the third decade of the 21st century, the football played by women has stopped hitting the crossbar. Because now this football is scoring goals, cheering girls all over the country and telling the them without fear: Come, play!”, he said.

To get to this point, “it took a lot of balls from a lot of girls and women hitting the crossbar and everyone knew that one day the goal would say ‘Yes!'” she said. christianin reference to its famous festival.

The captain of the Portuguese team also asked for “more and more recognition” for this goal, that “we all fight for it,” and “that we do it every day.”

He asked for “more and more fields for them, yes, they need them” and “better and better schedules, yes, because their parents deserve them.”

Cristiano RonaldoHe ended with an invocation: “It is with great pride that I embrace you today and with greater strength that I follow you every day and call you all to the greatest mission in history: Come and play!”

“Don’t forget this: the persistence of the dream, trust, falling and getting back up are the hallmark of an athlete and part of Portugal’s history,” he concluded.

Benfica, Barça’s rivals in the Women’s Champions League, was the most awarded team at the ‘Champions Gala’, organized by sports newspaper Record – of which Cristiano is now one of the owners after acquiring the Cofina media group – .

The Canadian Chloe Lacasse (who currently plays for Arsenal) won the award for the best player of the year, while the Portuguese Kika Nazareth he took the revelation.

The ceremony also paid tribute to the Portuguese women’s team, which received the Inspiration award after its first participation in a World Cup.

“You opened doors, you destroyed doors. The leap made in terms of internationalization is unprecedented. the future or the present,” declared the Portuguese president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in a video message.