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[Kvicha Kvaratskhelia @KvaraHQ]

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[🥇 @Cordreal10]

He gave his all. He’s a great leader. He deserves better.

[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Luis Figo on Portugal immediately giving Cristiano Ronaldo’s No.7 to Rafael Leao following his departure:

“I remember Cristiano’s first years with Portugal.

One day after training, some of the older players were talking and Cristiano was still outside doing something with the ball.

I looked over and said, ‘Does this boy ever go inside?’

Someone said, ‘Leave him. He wants to become the best player in the world.’

I laughed.

Cristiano heard us.

He came over and said, ‘Not just the best. I want to do something for Portugal that people remember.’

I told him, ‘Then you’re going to suffer.’

He looked confused.

I said, ‘Playing for your country is different. When things are good, everybody belongs to you. When things are bad, you still have to come back. That’s the deal.’

He said, ‘I’ll always come back.’

I thought about that conversation today.

Because more than twenty years later, Cristiano finally left a Portugal camp, and his number given to Rafael instantly.

And instead of immediately asking why the boy who told us he’d always come back finally decided to walk away, everybody seems in a hurry to show how quickly football can continue without him.

That worries me.

Not because Portugal cannot continue without Cristiano.

Of course it can.

I worry about the 12-year-old Portuguese boy watching.

Maybe Cristiano is the reason he started playing football. Maybe number seven is on the back of every Portugal shirt he’s ever owned.

One day that boy might become the next star.

He might become somebody we haven’t heard of yet.

And when he arrives at the national team, we’ll tell him exactly what we told Cristiano.

‘This shirt is different.’

Sacrifice for it.

Play hurt for it.

Come whenever you’re called.

Put the country before yourself.

But children aren’t stupid. Footballers aren’t either.

Eventually one of them will ask the question nobody wants to hear:

‘What happens when I’ve given Portugal everything?’

That’s why how you treat Cristiano at the end matters.

I remember another conversation with him years later.

By then he wasn’t the skinny boy anymore. He was captain.

I joked, ‘You said you’d do something Portugal would remember. I think they’ve noticed now.’

He laughed and said, ‘I’m not finished.’

That became Cristiano’s relationship with Portugal.

Never finished.

Lose a tournament, come back.

Get criticised, come back.

Get older, come back.

People tell you the next generation is ready, come back.

Until eventually, something happened and he didn’t come back.

He packed his things and left.

Then he told the Portuguese people that one day he would explain ‘the truth.’

I don’t know what happened inside those conversations, so I’m not going to invent it.

But if a relationship lasting more than twenty years ends like that, the federation shouldn’t only be thinking about the player who walked out of the building.

They should be thinking about the boys watching him walk out.

Because one day Portugal will ask one of them for everything too.

And when that day comes, you don’t want him remembering Cristiano Ronaldo and thinking:

‘Everything?’

I told Cristiano all those years ago that playing for your country means always coming back.

Perhaps there was another part we should have told him.

Your country should give you a reason to.”

[ELAYAS° FC @elayasfc]

He really gave Portugal his all

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨The definition of aura

[KDC Global @KDCGlobal_]

Ronaldo is not leaving Portugal ‼️

Portugal 🐐 is leaving Portugal 🇵🇹

[Shuffle FC @ShuffleFC]

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979 CAREER GOALS AND WHAT A RIDICULOUS HEADER!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[BES @Sunday14457]

@premierleague @EASPORTSFC 🌹

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@Jayforever1__ 😂😂😂

[BES @Sunday14457]

Can't stop scoring

[BES @Sunday14457]

Iconic 🐐

[Solonnzo @Solonnzo]

Cristiano Ronaldo’s first ever siuuuu celebration was against Chelsea. It’s the biggest celebration in the world.

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

Goal 977 for CR7

[BES @Sunday14457]

This is very funny 😂😂

[433 @433]

🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐇𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓! 🤯

The Brazilian has landed in Italy as a new signing for Italian Serie C side Ravenna 11 years after his retirement. 👀

[433 @433]

🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐇𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓! 🤯

The Brazilian has landed in Italy as a new signing for Italian Serie C side Ravenna 11 years after his retirement. 👀

[BES @Sunday14457]

@waadnotion For real brother

[BES @Sunday14457]

@milicruise_nig What if someone is 27 already?

[TCR. @TeamCRonaldo]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez were married under a "separation of financial assets" system, according to their marriage certificate.

[Cristiano Ronaldo News @CRonaldoNews]

The greatest header of all time. ✈️🤯

[BES @Sunday14457]

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[Matias King @matiasking_0hh]

An era you don't realize you'll miss until it's gone.😭