{"id":73851,"date":"2014-12-13T11:22:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T11:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=73851"},"modified":"2014-12-13T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T11:22:50","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-best-player-ever-raul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=73851","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo could be best player ever &#8211; Raul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\" style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo could become the best footballer of all time, says former Spain striker Raul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">The New York Cosmos frontman believes Ronaldo and Barcelona&#8217;s Lionel Messi are on a par with Brazil great Pele and Argentina legend Diego Maradona.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">Ronaldo, 29, was named\u00a0world player of the year\u00a0in January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">&#8220;I think now he is at the top, and if continues the same way, he could be the best of all time,&#8221; Raul, 37, told the BBC World Football show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">&#8220;I think Cristiano and Lionel Messi are two of the best players in the history of the game. Are they better than Pele or Diego Maradona?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">&#8220;They are at the top, but I think it is difficult in football to say who is first or second or third. But if Cristiano continues for five years&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"data-table-outer\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<table class=\"data-table\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"100%\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"heading\">\n<th class=\"left first\">Ronaldo&#8217;s Real Madrid career in numbers<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"left first\">\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">Ronaldo has scored 23 goals in 13 league games this season, and 281 goals in 267 games for Real Madrid, including 27 hat-tricks<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row2\">\n<td class=\"left first\">\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\"><strong>The Portugal international scored 17 goals in last season&#8217;s Champions League, breaking the previous record of 14 held by Jose Altafini and Lionel Messi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">Ronaldo surpassed Raul&#8217;s total of 71 Champions League goals in the\u00a04-0 victory over Ludogorets Razgrad\u00a0on Tuesday, and Raul expects his former Real team-mate to break his all-time club record of 323 goals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">&#8220;I am sure Ronaldo will beat it and I will be happy for him,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">Real set a Spanish record of 19 consecutive wins with their victory on Tuesday, and Raul believes the players are responding to the high expectations of coach Carlo Ancelotti.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">&#8220;I think Ancelotti is a great coach who has a great relationship with the players, but is also very demanding of them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">&#8220;There is a good connection between the coach and that is why you are seeing these results and these performances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #1c1c1c;\">Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo could become the best footballer of all time, says former Spain striker Raul. The New York Cosmos frontman believes Ronaldo and Barcelona&#8217;s Lionel Messi are on a par with Brazil great Pele and Argentina legend Diego Maradona. Ronaldo, 29, was named\u00a0world player of the year\u00a0in January. &#8220;I think now he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":69108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-73851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}