Cristiano Ronaldo (40 years old) bicycle kick vs Al Khaleej Saudi Pro League

It is wild that we live in a year where a Scottish midfielder and a 40 year old in Saudi are giving us the best highlights in world football.
 
I kind of hope another random player in some smaller league sees all this and decides to try it, keep the bicycle streak alive.
 
Whether you are team Messi or team Ronaldo or neither, clips like this are why we all watch, these moments just hit different.
 
Sometimes you read the comments and forget that this is just a guy who loves scoring silly goals and refuses to accept being old.
 
You can already see the thumbnail on every highlight video, him horizontal, ball about to hit the corner, and big letters saying age 40.
 
I will be honest, when I saw the first replay I thought it got deflected in, then you slow it down and see it is all him, pure contact.
 
We all joke about tap ins and penalties but these acrobatic ones remind everyone why he was always more than just numbers.
 
Last thing I will say, if he ever actually retires the internet will be flooded with clips like this and everyone pretending they never slandered him.
 
As long as he is out there trying stuff like this, nobody can say he is just hanging around for the paycheck.
 
This is the sort of goal that makes you stop scrolling and just replay it five times, even if you saw the scoreline already.
 
Age talk aside, the technique is textbook, eyes on the ball, body shape perfect, he has done it so many times that it almost looks simple.
 
If a random youngster in Europe scored this we would all be screaming wonderkid for a week, funny how standards shift when it is a legend doing it.
 
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