Cristiano Ronaldo is now the B-side to Lionel Messi among soccer's alphas, does he deserve more respect?
There's rarely much of a reason to feel sorry for Cristiano Ronaldo. Guys who make $220 million a year and strut and swagger and flex their eight-pack don't typically elicit that kind of sympathetic vibe. Yet as the Portuguese superstar prepares for what we assume will be his final international tournament — although we've thought, believed and written that before — he is perhaps more deserving of sympathy than at any time before.
His loaded Al-Nassr squad will finish a distant second to league champion Al-Hilal when the season wraps at the end of this month. Regardless, it is time, right now, and in advance of Portugal's campaign at the Euros in Germany this summer, to cut Ronaldo some slack. The mere fact that the 39-year-old will be in action at the Euros is an eye-opener, especially when framed against the tortured 2022 World Cup that seemed to have ended his national team career.
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