Portugal star Jo\u00e3o Cancelo thinks his national teammate Cristiano Ronaldo is past his best and the team does \u201cnot entirely depend on him\u201d as the European Championships 2024 approach.
\nAccording to Sportskeeda, Cancelo acknowledged Ronaldo\u2019s importance for the national team but believes that the five-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner is way past his prime.
\nCancelo believes that most footballers reach the peak of their career between the ages of 25 and 32.
\nCancelo said: \u201cHe is an important player and spent 15 years competing with Messi for the Ballon d\u2019Or, but the peak of a footballer\u2019s career is between the ages of 25 and 32.
\n\u201cHe is an important player for us, but the national team does not entirely depend on him.\u201d
\nRonaldo, 39, who has been left out of Portugal\u2019s squad for Thursday\u2019s international friendly against Sweden, has bagged 128 goals for his national team in 205 matches.
\nThe former Real Madrid and Manchester United star has scored 30 goals for Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al-Nassr in 33 appearances.
\nAccording to reports, the athlete has not been dropped from the team but will rest during the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Portugal star Jo\u00e3o Cancelo thinks his national teammate Cristiano Ronaldo is past his best and the team does \u201cnot entirely depend on him\u201d as the European Championships 2024 approach. According to Sportskeeda, Cancelo acknowledged Ronaldo\u2019s importance for the national team but believes that the five-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner is way past his prime. Cancelo believes …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":62283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62287,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62271\/revisions\/62287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}