Brazil vs Croatia, 2014 World Cup. 🇧🇷🇭🇷
Neymar, Oscar and Brazil kick off their home World Cup campaign in style.
A memorable opening night as Brazil began their journey in front of a passionate home crowd.
Brazil vs Croatia, 2014 World Cup. 🇧🇷🇭🇷
Neymar, Oscar and Brazil kick off their home World Cup campaign in style.
A memorable opening night as Brazil began their journey in front of a passionate home crowd.
@the_Lawrenz The song is titled - "Gangnam Style". It is a K-Pop song by South Korea singer - PSY. The song was released in 2012; and indeed, it was a global hit.
Enjoy ✌️
Pure Cinema, beautiful cinema. 🍿 What is the first word that comes to mind when you rewatch this penalty shootout?
FIFA World Cup Final 2022 ⚽️
Argentina 🇦🇷 vs France 🇫🇷
You can’t find Portugal in this kind of list, but Argentina is top 5 footballing nation in history, People really don’t understand what Cristiano Ronaldo has done for Portugal. It doesn’t need a World Cup to validate it. Portugal was never one of football’s traditional superpowers. They produced great players before him, but they weren’t viewed in the same category as nations like Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Italy, or France. Ronaldo changed that forever. You can’t even put them in that conversation, but look at it now, he’s single-handedly change how we view them, and the qualities of players they will produce after him.
For nearly 10 years now, every major tournament started with Portugal being considered a genuine contender, and that’s because of one man ……. Cristiano Ronaldo.
Before Ronaldo, Portugal had moments. With Ronaldo, Portugal became an era.
He’s the face of the nation, broke every scoring record imaginable, carried different generations of players, and helped deliver Portugal’s first major international trophy, now they have 2 more. More importantly, he raised the expectations of an entire country. Portugal don’t enter tournaments hoping for a miracle, they entered expecting to compete with anyone.
That’s a legacy bigger than a single trophy.
Winning a World Cup is often a combination of timing, squad quality, luck, injuries, and circumstance. Transforming the status of an entire footballing nation for twenty years is something far rarer. Ronaldo didn’t just win games for Portugal, he changed how the football world sees Portugal.
When future generations think of Portugal football, it’s one Man that will come to mind first, and that’s why his international legacy stands among the greatest the sport has ever seen.