Ronaldo on FIFA Puskas Award: "My goal was the best."

To Cristiano Ronaldo, the overhead bicycle kick he scored for Real Madrid against his current club Juventus, in the past Champions League, was better than Mohamed Salah's Premier League goal which won the FIFA goal of the year award (Puskas).

Salah's fine curling strike against Everton in December controversially won him the award, beating Ronaldo's bicycle kick, Lionel Messi's amazing World Cup goal against Nigeria, and Gareth Bale's stunning overhead goal against Liverpool in the 2017/2018 Champions League final.

Ronaldo scored his acrobatic goal in the Champions League quarter-finals and joined Juventus a few months later.

Gareth Bale's goal against Liverpool in the Champions League final

The 33-year-old five time Ballon d'Or winner who wasn't in attendance at the FIFA Best Gala took to Instagram to speak his mind on the FIFA Best awards five days after the ceremony. He told his 142 million Instagram followers: "Salah, it was a good goal. My goal in reverse, we're serious." "Bicycle kick, my goal. Was amazing goal come on guys. Should be honest, don’t lie to yourself." He also said, "I'm not disappointed, life is like that, sometimes you win and others lose, what interests me is that in 15 years of career I managed to maintain the same levels of performance."

"Awards are awards... I already have a lot. I play to win and not to win awards." He went on to congratulate his former Real teammate, saying, "Congratulations to everyone, to Modric, best player of the year according to FIFA." Of course, he doesn't share FIFA's opinion.

In other news, Ronaldo's lawyers will also be suing German magazine Der Spiegel for publishing "blatantly illegal" accusations by an American woman who claims to have been raped by the Portuguese soccer in 2009.

Photo credits: Getty Images

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