Thursday, December 5, 2013

Ronaldo hopes to avoid big guns in Brazil draw !

Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo believes Spain, Brazil and Germany are the favourites to win next year’s World Cup and is keen to avoid all three in Friday’s draw for the group stages.


 The Real Madrid forward ensured his country will be represented in Brazil  next summer with a stunning individual performance as he scored all four goals  in Portugal’s 4-2 aggregate playoff win over Sweden last month.

 However, having been eliminated by Spain in each of the last two major  tournaments, he is keen to avoid some of his club teammates along with Brazil  and three-time winners Germany in the early stages.

 “The candidates to win the World Cup are Brazil, Spain and Germany. Ideally  it is not a good moment to be drawn with them, but we are not thinking about  that just now,” he told Spanish sports daily Marca.

   “We will see what the draw presents us with. We are confident, in good  shape and we have achieved our objective of getting to Brazil. Hopefully we  will not be drawn with any of these really strong teams from the start.”    Ronaldo has paid slightly for his efforts in the match against Sweden as he  has missed Real’s last two games due to a slight muscle problem.

   However, Madrid have continued their rampant form of late even without  their star man as Gareth Bale took centre stage with his first hat-trick since  joining the Spanish giants in a 4-0 win over Valladolid last weekend.


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