Cristiano Ronaldo responds to FIFA in an unexpected way: A bizarre “ping pong” goal, raising his total to 954 goals and the secret he intentionally did that shocked the world
Cristiano Ronaldo once again became the center of world football when he gave a defiant response to the ridicule that was said to come from someone inside FIFA. But instead of speaking up, fighting back or sending a message on social media, CR7 chose a familiar way – and also the scariest way: scoring.
And not just any normal goal. In Al Nassr’s latest match, Ronaldo launched a shot that fans jokingly called a “ping pong goal” – the ball went fast, neat, and changed direction unexpectedly, exactly like the trajectory of a smash in professional table tennis. That bizarre and incredibly beautiful finish took his career tally to 954 – an almost unimaginable number for a player who has turned 40.
But it wasn’t just that goal that made the football world sit up straight.
After the match, when asked about the sarcastic comments aimed at him, Ronaldo simply smiled and replied:
“Don’t forget I’m 40. And don’t forget that I’m still doing things that many people think I should have stopped doing a long time ago.”
The media described this statement as a cold but confident response, as if Ronaldo was saying directly: “The more they talk, the more I score.”
Al Nassr are currently top of the Saudi Pro League with a nine-game winning streak, and it can be said that Ronaldo is the heart of this run of form. What’s more, according to some inside sources, Ronaldo deliberately did something that surprised the entire football world: he completely changed his running and finishing style to dispel comments that he “only knows how to cushion the ball” or “has no speed anymore”.
An analyst revealed:
“Ronaldo is trying a new style, a type of movement that he has never used in more than 20 years of playing. He did it on purpose to prove that age does not bind him.”
That is why the “ping pong” goal is said to be the result of that change. He did not stay in a familiar area, did not choose an easy-to-finish position, but put himself in a difficult situation to prove that: if he wanted to, he could still create a masterpiece.
What is even more curious is that many sports journalists are hinting that Ronaldo planned to do this before the match — as a way to make his mockers “swallow their words”. And perhaps FIFA did not expect that a sarcastic remark would motivate Ronaldo to continue breaking records that no one could have imagined.
At the age of 40, when many have retired for decades, Ronaldo is still running, scoring goals, and making the whole world wonder:
