Ronaldo takes Portugal to the World Cup

Christiano Ronaldo proved how good and deserving he is in winning the award of the Ballon d'or, as he helped his team singlehandedly book a place in Brazil come 2014 as they beat sweden 3-2 at Solna and 4-2 on aggregate in a match which he scored all four goals.

"The excitement I can bring to the game and the goals I can score - nobody can rival me for that," Zlatan said before the first leg , stating that the World Cup
needs him more than Ronaldo. But Ronaldo proved otherwise on the pitch when he scored a hattrick in the thrilling second leg match against Sweden. Christiano Rolando became the highest goal scorer for his country as he took his goal tally to 50 surpassing former striker Pedro Pauleta by 3 goal.

The game was all cool in the first half untill the start of the second half when the Real Madrid star came through in the 50th minute to latch onto a through ball from Joao Moutinho and took a left foot shot pass the helpless Swedish goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic who was not quite impressive in the first leg and in the first
half of the second leg, started to show his brilliance .He scored a header off a corner kick in the 68th minute to make it 2-1 and blasted a free kick under the wall to make it 2-2 in the 72nd minute, but Portugal still led with the one away goal. Ronaldo then brought down any hope Sweden had of completing the comeback by scoring in the 77th and 79th minutes.

The stadium went cold, Sweden was silence and when the final whistle blew, Portugal booked their place in the World Cup. Ronaldo has scored 13 goals his last six matches for club and country. And has continued to show the world why everyone should appreciate what he can do too on the field Whether it results in
a trophy shouldn't be a required validation of his tremendous ability to change the game and score goals . As everyone in not jus inPortugal but the world will now agree, exceptional performances like this are
worth more than trophies.