The goal came by ways of a penalty shot, when Liga defender tripped Ronaldo in the penalty box.  Five minutes after Ronaldo scored his first goal, he set up the second when his shot was mishandled by Quito’s goalkeeper into the feet of another Real Madrid player.

The game had some controversy when Quito’s coach ran onto the pitch in protest of the awarded penalty to Ronaldo.  The penalty was clearly justified however, and the coach was sent packing by the referee.

The game ended in victory for Real Madrid with a score of 4-2.  Real Madrid face Juventus on Friday’s semi-final game of the Peace Cup.  The game will be played in Seville Spain.

Cristiano Ronaldo has added another two awards to his growing collection by taking home UEFA’S Club Footballer of the Year prize at the awards ceremony in Monaco on August 28/2008. He also took home the prize for Best Forward for his campaign during the 2007/2008 season.

Chelsea’s Petr Cech won best goalkeeper, John Terry won Best defender and Frank Lampard took home the best midfielder award.

Cristiano had a sensational year, scoring 42 goals in all competitions, 8 goals for Manchester United in the Champions League, including a fabulous header in the final game in Moscow versus Chelsea.

Ronaldo was asked what his secret to success is, in which he replied. “Work”

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO OF THE AWARDS SHOW IN MONACO HERE:

The Portuguese National Team will play their third and final game of the group stage today against Switzerland. Switzerland, who have already been eliminated from the tournament, will surely try to go out on a positive note and give their best performance. Portugal, on the other hand, have already qualified and will need to stay focused. Speculation has Portugal playing their B-Team in order to rest their best players.

Portugal’s star winger, Cristiano Ronaldo, will most certainly not make the starting line-up as new Chelsea manager Scolari looks to give game time to players who have yet to play.

Portugal’s next opponent has yet to be decided, but it hasn’t stopped the off pitch politics and mind games from commencing. Earlier this week, Croatia went public in saying that they were happy to avoid Portugal in the quarter-final round. Just two days later, when the possibility of Croatia playing Portugal grew, they again went public in saying that they would feel sorry for Cristiano Ronaldo, because it would most certainly mean an early exit for Portugal.

Quarter-final opponents, in most part have yet to be decided. What we do know is that only a few teams are fancied to be standing on the field for the final game. Portugal is one of those teams.

The commercial is titled ‘Take it to the next level’. It features an unknown football player who catches the eye of Arsene Wenger and is taken from the youth team. The Teenager, after much dedication and exercise, ends up playing for Arsenal and Holland.

This commercial is filmed entirely from a player’s perspective.

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