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Cristiano Ronaldo has what it takes to play at the top level for another 10 years, according to one of his former coaches at Manchester United. The Portuguese star signed a bumper new deal at Real Madrid earlier this week and, despite being 31, claims he could play on for another decade.And speaking at the #CR7Live event in Lisbon, Tony Strudwick told Sky Sports that Ronaldo possesses the physicality and talent to do just that. I think he wants to play for another 10 years and I wouldnt doubt that in terms of his ability to play and recover, said Strudwick, who is the head of athletic development at Old Trafford. With that robustness and resilience he can continue to play as long as he wants. I came [to Manchester United] in his final two years. My first year was when we won the Champions League and beat Chelsea in the final, and at that point hed got to a level where he was a world-class performer. Look back at what happened when Ronaldo coached a lucky group of youngsters live on skysports.com When you talk about the top elite players like Cristiano obviously is, theres a relentless pursuit of excellence and I think we saw that from a very young age. The stories of him being the first one into training and the last one out, but also him wanting to take his game on.He was strong, powerful and quick, and he transferred all that onto the pitch, which was the most important thing.We had a fantastic working culture at Carrington that had been created by Sir Alex Ferguson all those years ago, and even in that environment Cristiano was a standalone. He would always practice on his own to ensure he had that quality practice time. He made everyone uncomfortable, not only the senior players that saw him do it but also the young players to look up to him. Ronaldo says it will be an amazing moment when he returns to face Sporting Lisbon with Madrid in the Champions League Invariably as coaches we had to drag him off [the training ground], but that was the level of discipline and professionalism required.After being forced off due to injury during the Euro 2016 final earlier this year, Ronaldo was incredibly vocal on the touchline as he helped steer Portugal towards a 1-0 win over France. And Strudwick believes it is important for people like Ronaldo to stay in football beyond their playing career.Youd like to see people like Cristiano stay in the game, as long as youve got the passion for it, he said. The incentive will be to just keep playing football but obviously hes a great talent and all those learning experiences will be invaluable for young players. Football needs people like Cristiano [to stay] and continue that legacy of what it takes to be a world-class player. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- So this is what the year-in, year-out relentless talking about chasing perfection that starts at the top with Martha Karolyi and trickles on down to every gymnast on the five-woman U.S. Olympic team can do: Sometimes, crazy as it sounds, the idea actually does start animating every goal, permeating everyones thoughts, shaping what their dreams look like, until they get to the point where here they are in Rio, and near-perfection is literally, actually coming true.With three days down in the Olympic womens gymnastics competition and three days of individual events to go, the U.S. team is halfway to a perfect sweep of all six of the available gold medals that will be awarded here in Rio, a pie-in-the-sky sounding thought that nobody was really talking that much about before these Games began.Now look: The U.S. defended its team gold on Tuesday. Simone Biles and Aly Raisman finished 1-2 in the individual all-around on Thursday night, extending the American teams hold on that title to four straight Olympics.Biles -- already the most decorated female gymnast in history - has also qualified first for the individual events finals in the vault, floor exercise and beam and could take gold in all three. Teammate Madison Kocian has the highest qualifying score in the remaining event, the uneven bars, where shes a reigning world co-champion, and Gabby Douglas qualified third-best in that event, just a tenth of a point behind her. If Biles would falter on floor or beam, Raisman and Laurie Hernandez were the second-best qualifiers on those events behind her, respectively.But could they really run the table? Finish perfect? Pull off a clean sweep of six golds in six events?That would just be crazy, Biles admitted.Notice she also didnt rule it out.Its mind over matter, Raisman said, describing her philosophy about she frames whats possible and how she navigates doubt. If you believe you can or you cant, you probably will.Both of them looked a little weary Friday morning when they met the press. The wakeup call and ride to the Olympic main press center for their 9:30 a.m. session with Kocian, Douglas and Hernandez had to feel like it came early for them. It was the morning after an emotional night that Biles repeatedly called the best day of her 19-year-old life, but now the just-crowned Olympic all-around champion sat on the edge of the dais, trying to stay off her feet. Down the line, Raisman was re-living what she called her redemptive performance for the silver medal and how gratified she felt about her 4-for-4 night without a bobble in her routines, but she also sat in a chair, conserving energy.If they were exhausted, they wouldnt admit it.I think if you ask [multi-event swimmer] Michael Phelps, he would say the same thing -- you know you have less left to do, so you just keep going, said Biles.If Biles, the reigning three-time world champion, does sweep all three of her remaining events, and Kocians, Hernandezs, Raismans and Douglas coming performances match their qualifying scores, the U.S. team could walk away from these Olympics with a total of 14 medals scattered among the five-wwoman team.ddddddddddddThats extraordinary.So far, they have hit all 20 routines theyve thrown. If they go 7-for-7 in the coming three days, pushing them to 27-for-27 at this competition, that Final Five nickname theyve chosen for themselves -- partly as an homage to 73-year-old Karolyi, who is retiring after Rio -- might seem too pedestrian to capture it all.It could be a long time before the sport sees a team as deep and talented and immune to pressure as this team has been.Told Friday they are making this look easy, Biles -- ever the cold-eyed pragmatist -- looked at the TV reporter who made the statement and said, Well, thats our job, crinkling her nose a little as if its so obvious. If we make it look tough, she added, I think it would be a problem.Everyone laughed.Raisman is right, of course, to say the teams relentless pursuit of perfection is a mindset as much as happy accident of timing that put them all together like this at the same time and place in history. Both she and Aimee Boorman, Biles coach, have paid homage again and again the past two days to Karolyis tone-setting guidance. Boorman told a story about how when Biles got to the beam Thursday night, the most landmine-strewn of all the events, and she was trailing Russias Aliya Mustafina by a few tenths, I was thinking, JUST DONT FALL Boorman admitted. But Simone just looked at me and said, I got this. Thats something Martha does such a great job with them. She teaches them that attitude throughout their training. She tells them, How many times have you done these sets?Now theyre at the point they repeat it all reflexively -- the mantra, their sets, the all-for-one attitude that Karolyi also insisted on. As Mihai Brestyan, Raismans longtime personal coach, said, You have all the time the biggest expectations. But then here, you seen its happening! As Raisman finished her final event, the floor, Thursday night, she could see him out of the corner of her eye, pumping his fists and starting to cry.After the medals by Biles and Raisman were won, it was actually a little humorous Thursday night to see Karolyi -- ever the teacher, forever a coach -- lingering in the nearly empty mixed-zone press area long after the all-around event was over, energetically explaining the perfection mantra to an overseas TV crew who asked her how the U.S. program became this good. It was like watching a preacher who loves to spread the Word. The longer Karolyi has preached chasing perfection, the more it has seemed to come true. Sixteen years ago when she started imprinting the idea on the drifting U.S. program, it seemed like a buzzword shed dusted off from the days she coached Nadia Comenci to a gold medals and perfect 10s at the 1976 Games. No one says that anymore.Karolyi likes to say, Perfection is an attitude, not just an act. Right now, no team at these Games looks as perfect as this U.S. gymnastics team. Appreciate them before theyre gone. It will be fascinating to see if they can keep it up for four more events. ' ' '