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Ronaldo Hits 900

ESPN FC

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew discuss Cristiano Ronaldo hitting the 900 career goal mark in Portugal's UEFA Nations League win over Croatia. Plus, Sebastian Salazar joins the show to discuss U.S. Soccer legend Alex Morgan announcing her retirement. And, Julien Laurens talks men's & women's Ballon D'or nominees & UEFA Nations League action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome in the latest edition of ESPNFC, I'm Dan Thomas.

0:07.0

Joined by Craig Burley and Stevie Nickle will kick things off in Lisbon, Portugal in action in the opening

0:12.0

Nations League tie against Croatia.

0:14.8

We see Modrich and Krijana Ronaldo reunited from their Real Madrid days, but it was

0:19.3

Ronaldo who would grab all their headlines, scoring the second of a two-one victory, and chalking up his

0:25.8

900th goal. You take a look, Lianal Nessie, his closest compared with 838s and quick mass would suggest that is 62 more than

0:36.8

messy. Pelle then with 765 from Mario 756 and Frank Pushkas at 753 to wax lyrical about Christina Renana.

0:47.0

We welcome Julianne Arroy into the show.

0:49.6

And that your opinion about him Jules of course messy fans aren't his biggest fans there are

0:54.3

people who absolutely love him 900 goals there's no questioning that.

1:00.0

That's incredible really and the longevity of, to be able to score that many goals,

1:05.2

you still have to be at your best for 20 years and that's what it's done. And it's just incredible

1:10.3

to see him, even now 39, he would be 14 14 February to still be able to score we talked enough

1:15.6

about his euros and how disappointing this was and that he was not really at the right

1:20.9

level for that kind of competition.

1:23.0

Tonight in a game where Portugal struggled at that time,

1:25.0

especially in the second half,

1:26.0

in terms of balance of the team and considering chances,

1:28.0

even if they ended up winning the game,

1:30.0

for him to be in that position.

1:32.0

And like Craig said, it's the perfect cross and you

1:33.8

knew even when Nuno Mendez was about to take that cross you knew exactly

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