The Cannibal Diet: That Penalty Given to Mané...

And the day came when the Cannibal lost his appetite. Do you know a striker on earth who is hungrier than Cristiano Ronaldo? Neither do we. Well, last night, in the 48th minute of Al Wehda-Al Nassr, the Portuguese scored and, in the tenth minute of injury time, everyone was sure he would score another, because the referee awarded a penalty to Pioli's team. Instead, the unimaginable happened: CR7, with a Christmassy smile, left the ball to Sadio Mané who scored the 2-0. Unimaginable not only because of the striker's innate voracity, but above all because he has one goal in his head more than the others: reaching a thousand official goals. He still has a few dozen to go and, at 40 years old, there is little sand left in the hourglass of his career. Imagine if he were to close his career at 999... How much will he think about Mané's penalty? But it happened. Suddenly, Scrooge discovered generosity, his age inspired him with a new wisdom that made him prefer the pleasure of giving to a new step towards a thousand. Maybe it was a lesson for his son who, in the Al Nassr Under 15s, scores about ten goals per game and yesterday, at the stadium, watched his father as always. "Well done, Junior, but remember that you can't live on Siuuu alone". Or maybe the lesson was for us, for our championship. CR7 saw Lookman steal a penalty that wasn't his; he saw Lucca defend the ball with the grit of an All Black from teammates who wanted to take it away from him and he explained: "See how it's done? Even a Cannibal like me can skip a meal".