Ronaldo can't cope with failure - his entire Portugal and Man Utd careers have shown it 🟢 Analysis by danielstorey85
is standing on the touchline at Paris’ Stade de France stadium, moving his hands frantically as if playing competitive charades. On his left leg is a huge strapping; Ronaldo repeatedly tried to return to the pitch after his injury, but even this force of ego does not have magical healing powers. And so, because he cannot play, he will coach instead. Several paces behind in, in Ronaldo’s literal and metaphorical shadow, stands Fernando Santos.
This is the defining image of Ronaldo’s international career; not the goals, not the wink, not the celebration. It suggested – no, it proved categorically – that Ronaldo is a man who is incapable of , self-inflicted or by misfortune. That is the basis of his personality: an inability to accept a loss of power. If he could not score the goal, he must seize the opportunity to believe he was still the difference-maker.won their only major final without him on the pitch. That the most famous goal in the country’s history was scored by Eder, who never scored competitively for Portugal before or after that day. Santos described Ronaldo as “the 12th man” after that final.
Since 2016, Portugal’s performance can roughly be distilled to major tournament underachievement while Ronaldo continues to. He scored four goals at the 2018 World Cup as Portugal won one of their four matches and then scored five goals at Euro 2020 as Portugal won one of their four matches. Those who have been watching Ronaldo’s club career may be familiar with the trend of his goal output holding firm while the team enjoys diminishing returns.
For the first time since Ronaldo joined Manchester United, both parties are truly happy. Manchester United have removed a player whose public mutiny had made him a virus. Ronaldo has his free agency and his escape from the terrible shame of not starting every week. Now theLet’s not pretend that any of this was not manufactured.was timed to coincide with him leaving England for the World Cup, presumably knowing that his position would become untenable and thus engineer an exit.
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