Ronaldo: 'Portugal can win the World Cup 2022'

"Portugal is a mix of experienced players and young players right now. I'm excited for the current generation of the team. Hopefully we can show the world what we can do." at the highest level," Ronaldo told AP on November 15.

According to Transfermarkt, Portugal owns the most uniform squad in history, with an average age of 26.8. In addition to the experienced seniors like Ronaldo, Rui Patricio or Pepe, coach Fernando Santos also has stars at the maturity of his career such as Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes, Ruben Dias, Ruben Neves, Joao Cancelo... and others. Young talents have asserted themselves like Joao Felix, Rafael Leao, Vitinha, Nuno Mendes...

But the 37-year-old superstar refused to compare the current Portuguese collective with previous generations. "Every player who has played for Portugal, past or present, has to overcome many barriers to reach the highest level," Ronaldo added.

Ahead of Ronaldo is the fifth World Cup in his career. He is the highest scoring male player at the national team level with 117 goals and has helped Portugal win Euro 2016 and the Nations League in 2019. But Portugal's best achievement at the World Cup is only selling. ended in 2016, when Ronaldo was still a young player. On Russian soil in 2018, they stopped from the 1/8 round.

With a talented group of players available, Ronaldo believes Portugal can win the championship at Qatar 2022 "Of course, we are there for the goal of winning and I believe this squad is capable of doing that. But the World Cup has Top teams, with world-class players so Portugal needs to stay focused, be humble, go there and show what we can do," he said.

This season, Ronaldo has not played much at Man Utd. At the age of 37, many believe this is the last World Cup of his career. However, Ronaldo did not confirm that. He just thinks that the World Cup will always bring together top stars whether he attends or not.