Controversy over a deleted Cristiano Ronaldo interview: “The best in history is me”

A word of Cristiano Ronaldo in which, among other things, he claimed to be “the best in history” have generated great controversy after CNN Portugal recovered them and The Athletic echoed them. The controversy has arisen because the TV channel deleted them a few hours after publishing them. The reason: the interview was from 2025.

The words of the interview, in which Cristiano Ronaldo stated among other things that “the best in history is me, full stop” or “people do not value the shape I am in, my goals” have gone around the world after the Portuguese, 41, left the training camp. Portugal hastily at the recent window of the Nations League.

His departure, making his private plane fly to Denmark urgently to pick him up, with a statement included accusing the new Portuguese coach Jorge Jesus to break his word, with the president of the Portuguese Federation trying to mediate, among other controversies, is a matter of state in Portugal, given the possible retirement of the player, who demands, as Cristiano Ronaldo himself requests, to be respected at the level of players like “Pele either Diego Maradona“.

The interview with the former real Madridmade in 2025 by his friend Edu Aguirre on La Sexta, it can no longer be seen or read on CNN Portugal. “People don’t give the level that I offer and my goals the recognition they deserve,” Cristiano Ronaldo also said that day, who claimed to live day by day: “I don’t know what will happen tomorrow. One day I may wake up and lose motivation, and no longer want to play; I really don’t know what could happen.” Some phrases that in the current context had set the networks on fire.