New Delhi: Indian batter Virat Kohli on Monday, hailed Portuguese football player Cristiano Ronaldo after Portugal’s exit from the FIFA World Cup 2022 and called him the “greatest of all time”. Kohli shared a photo of Ronaldo on Facebook with a caption. He wrote that no trophy can take away anything. He also said that watching Ronaldo play is a git from God.
Kohli took to Facebook and said that watching him play is like a gift from God. “No trophy or any title can take anything away from what you’ve done in this sport and for sports fans around the world. No title can explain the impact you’ve had on people and what I and so many around the world feel when we watch you play. That’s a gift from god,” Kohli wrote.
A real blessing to a man who plays his heart out every single time and is the epitome of hard work and dedication and a true inspiration for any sportsperson. You are for me the greatest of all time, the caption read. Cristiano Ronaldo broke down in tears as he made his way down the tunnel after Portugal's quarterfinal FIFA World Cup loss to Morocco on Saturday.
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Morocco on Saturday defeated Portugal 1-0 in the quarterfinal and became the first African nation to qualify for the last four of the World Cup. This was possibly the last chance for Ronaldo to win a World Cup title at the FIFA World Cup 2022 and the 37-year-old will have to leave empty-handed after Portugal's elimination from the competition.