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Cristiano Ronaldo has won everything a football player dreams throughout their lives and very few actually achieve. His exploits on the pitch left his fans jumping and many rivals and critics scratching their head numerous times in his decorated career. His numbers are a testament to the fact that he is one of the greatest players ever. Yet it seems that despite all his heroics, Cristiano still gets up every morning with still the same hunger - a quest for perfection....

No matter what records you breach, There is always something more… That of God you must beseech. Even more so if you’re Cristiano Ronaldo. A player who has time and again been overlooked when it comes to being given the recognition he thinks he deserves, would surely have wondered if things could have turned out better. Even as reports of his depression and disagreement with the Real Madrid management did the rounds in the media, there were fans and foes alike who could not fathom why and even how he could be unhappy....

In case you didn’t know… Ronaldo shares the record for the most number of Ballon d’Or wins with Messi, with both players having won the award on five occasions each. The prestigious Ballon d’Or remains football’s most coveted individual prize presented to the player deemed to be the best in the world by journalists, together with coaches and captains of national teams every year. The talismanic duo held a duopoly over the award in the last decade until Croatia and Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric put an end to their dominance by lifting the prize last year....

Bale moved to Real Madrid from Premier League side Tottenham Hotspurs in the summer of 2013 for an estimated transfer fee of £85.3 million which shattered the world record for the most expensive transfer. The previous record was held by the Madrid giants when they had signed Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United for £80 million in 2009. The speculation of a fallout between the pair had grabbed headlines last year when Ronaldo refused to celebrate on a few occasions whenever Bale scored a goal for Los Blancos....

In case you didn’t know… After the former Real Madrid man moved away from the Liga giants to join Italian side Juventus, Ronaldo’s eight-year-old son also joined the club’s youth team. The youngster has been doing well for himself in Italy as he netted four times on his Juventus debut in a 5-1 win over Lucento counterparts in September, scoring twice in each half. Speaking of his son’s football career, Ronaldo once said, “I hope that Cris, my son, can be like his dad....

Here is how to unlock every character in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. Adventure Mode Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled’s Adventure Mode isn’t exactly easy to conquer, but playing through it will let players unlock a decent chunk of the unlockable characters. Here is a list of all the Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled characters that can be unlocked by defeating them in Adventure mode. Komodo Joe Papu Papu Pinstripe Potoroo Ripper Ro...

Of course, gamers can read between the lines when many of the renamed skins feature either “Black” or White” in their name. For example, the White Tawna skin has been renamed to White Tiger Tawna, presumably to differentiate from a race-based descriptor to one that has an animal connotation. From a design perspective, White Tiger Tawna sounds better, but White Tawna when she’s not actually a human does sound odd....

Google could also help solve YouTube’s “Napster” problem. Much of the copyrighted material on YouTube is posted without the permission of TV networks and music studios. Google has existing relationships with many of those companies and the engineering muscle to figure out a way to screen YouTube for infringing content. Still, both firms decline to comment on the acquisition rumor, and Microsoft, Yahoo and Viacom have also spoken to execs of the 60-employee start-up over the past three months....

McDermott is the nation's leading scorer at 26.9 points a game. The senior is joined on the team Monday by freshman Jabari Parker of Duke and seniors Russ Smith of Louisville, Shabazz Napier of Connecticut and Sean Kilpatrick of Cincinnati. Smith, Napier and Kilpatrick all played in the first-year American Athletic Conference, the first time a conference had three players on the first team since the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2000-01....

Three-time Pro-Bowler Cribbs has not played since 2014, when he was a member of the Indianapolis Colts. His last game was the AFC championship game that season, infamously known as the catalyst for the ‘Deflategate’ scandal. The 33-year-old was released by the Colts in 2015 and later said doctors told him that multiple concussions had left him with the brain of a man his late 50s. A shoulder injury cost Cribbs 10 games in the 2013 season while with the New York Jets and he played in just six games in 2014 after the Colts signed him in November....

The touring side dominated India for most of the first test at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens but the world’s top-ranked test side made a stunning comeback in the drawn match. Chasing an improbable target of 231 in little more than a session, Sri Lanka were reeling on 75-7 before the umpires ruled the light too poor to continue in an enthralling final day. Sri Lanka, who lost 9-0 across all formats at home against India earlier this year, went in unchanged for the second test....

Yet, as Haroon Lorgat and his team ponder on how to present this beautiful game to the world, they would do well to turn the clock back by a century or so and take a leaf out of the match that was the only brush that cricket had with the Olympics. And we are not talking about the village cricket match that Danny “Slumdog” Boyle has in mind for the London Olympics opening ceremony....

The legend suffered from lung cancer for which he underwent surgery in London in 2013. He was shifted to the ventilator at the Aga Khan Hospital here a couple of days ago after his health deteriorated after being hospitalised three weeks ago due to breathing problems. Many Pakistani and international stars took to Twitter to express their condolences. Soon after the news of his demise spread, International Cricket Council (ICC) tweeted: “ICC expresses sadness at the passing of Hall of Famer Hanif Mohammad”....

The caning is no joke. A former director of prisons in Singapore once said, “The officer uses the whole of his body weight and not just the strength of his arm … He pivots on his feet to deliver the stroke … After three strokes, the buttocks will be covered in blood.” A retired prison officer says that each stroke of the cane splits the skin-“It happens every time” -and, yes, the scars last for life....

“Your excuses for not facing me are falling almost as fast as you when I catch you in the Octagon. Stop accusing me irresponsibly [about being on] anabolic steroids. I’m clean! You know I passed various tests, many given by surprise. Let’s do Olympic testing, as Pacquiao and Mayweather, and you’ll have no excuse to hide behind. Lorenzo hired me, I’m back and I’m coming after you. After our fight, you or will retire and go make movies, or will escape to flyweight, as you ran away from me at featherweight You’ll never be the best until you face the best....

Madrid had won their previous 13 matches away from home to set a new record in the Primera Division and all of their games on the road this season had ended in victories. Not this time, however, as promoted club Girona came from behind to seal a wonderful win in the teams’ first-ever competitive meeting. Madrid win and BTTS v Spurs 11/5 Real have had their issues already in 2017-18, but those had come at home via back-to-back draws against Valencia and Levante, followed by defeat to Betis and a 1-1 tie with Tottenham....

Juventus leapfrogged Inter at the top with a thrilling 2-1 win in the Derby d’Italia at San Siro on Sunday. Goals from Paulo Dybala and Gonzalo Higuain saw Juve move a point clear of Inter, who saw their perfect start to the league season snapped by the Bianconeri. Ronaldo, who rattled the crossbar and had a goal ruled out for offside, used Instagram to celebrate Juve’s fourth consecutive league victory....

The Real Madrid star now sits joint-ninth in the historic rankings alongside Miroslav Klose, Kiatisuk Senamuang and Majed Abdullah, though he does have the lowest goals-per-game rate of the quartet. Ronaldo moves into top 10 international scorers At 32, Ronaldo has a legitimate chance of becoming the top international goalscorer in European football history by surpassing Ferenc Puskas’ total of 84 for Hungary, although the worldwide record may be beyond him....

The Serie A side confirmed the news on Friday in a statement on its official website. “Cristiano Ronaldo carried out a check with a diagnostic test (swab) for COVID-19,” the statement read. “The exam provided a negative result. The player has, therefore, recovered after 19 days and is no longer subjected to home isolation.” Ronaldo is set to take another test Saturday and will train individually. Should that test come back negative, Ronaldo will be called in for Juve’s Serie A clash against Spezia on Sunday...