No, he wasn't. Not even close to that. cr wasn't the difference maker in either competition. For rm, Bale and Modric were just as important, if not more. For portugal, pepe, quaresma, nani, all had a vital role... That's what good marketing and Mendes do, though. Distort what happened and call them "facts".
The bdor is for the year 2016, something people seem to forget too. There's still a few months to be played. cr will win either way, but not because he is the best player this year, which he isn't.
Maybe you were watching RM and Ronaldo blind folded this season so lets break it down.
In the opening game of the group stage, he scored a hat-trick in a 3-0 home win against Shaktar = 3points won for his team. In the very next CL game he scored 2 goals in an away 2-0 win against Malmo = another 3 points he won for his team (6 in total). The 2 games after that were a 0-0 draw and 1-0 win against PSG where he didn't contribute to the scoreline. The game after that was 4-3 away win against shaktar where he score 2 and assisted 2 so therefore essentially won another 3 points for his team and 9 out of the total 14 points they had at this stage. In the final group game he scored 4 goals and made 1 assist in an 8-0 home win against Malmo. Granted, this game was a blow-out by Madrid so they would have probably won this one without him. However, that doesn't detract from the fact that he helped them amass 12 points out of a total 17 at this point and 9 points almost single-handedly. So it's very plausible to say that they wouldn't have won the group without him.
Now onto the knockout stage, he scored the always crucial opening goal against Roma that also happened to be an away goal. In the return leg he also opened the scoring and assisted the only other goal in a close 2-0 win where Roma were missing chance after chance on the other end of the pitch.
Moving onto the Quarter finals, he scored the all important hat-trick in the 2nd leg against Wolfsburg that cancelled and reversed the 2-0 defeat his team succumbed to in the first leg when other players went into hiding.
In the semi-finals, he didn't play the first leg because of injury and visibly wasn't 100% in the return leg despite opting to play the full 90% in a narrow 1-0 win. Onto the final, he again struggled and was underwhelming but still scored THAT all important winning penalty.
Over the course of the entire CL campaign he scored 16 goals and assisted a further 4 which accounts for 70% of RMA's TOTAL goal output in the competition.
In the same time frame, Gareth Bale missed the games against Malmo (home & away), PSG (home & away); Roma (home & away), Shaktar (most of the home game as he came off injured). So almost contributed nothing in the entire CL campaign up until he was fit and lively in the semis and final.
Overall this CL season Bale registered 0 goals in 8 appearances yet somehow he was "as important or even more important than CR" lmao. Bale was bound to be lively in the last couple of games as he was fresh having been injured for pretty much the entire season. Madrid made it to that advanced stage without him.
You can argue Modric was important but in the grand scheme of things not as important as CR was. I could do the same breakdown for the euros but it would take me hours. You're just allowing your loathe for CR to cloud your judgement or you really just have no clue. You would think he was Arbeloa with the way people post here.
I think Ronaldo is being underrated to the point where 36 league goals in 35 games - helping his team to within one point of the league in a season where EVERY other attacker on his team was being injured for lengthy periods of time is no longer good enough.
Or scoring 16 goals in a single CL campaign (no other player to ever do this apart from a younger version of himself 2 years ago) is no longer a big deal.
Ritchie you're always expecting the worst* don't blame you seeing how football works though.
