Maybe if they actually called shit right and weren’t so biased they would be. But they’re so dog shit that obviously no one wants them for important matches.
🚨Spanish referees believe Real Madrid is the reason they are rarely appointed by FIFA or UEFA for major European matches.
They resent the club for what they see as damage to their credibility worldwide, and that resentment shows on their faces when they officiate Real Madrid games or deal with Real Madrid players.
A truce must be reached between the referees and Real Madrid. This war will ultimately destroy Spanish football.
Instead of letting Carlos Espí get more minutes with Spain U21, they called him up for the first team to not even include him in the squad list for both games.
Insanely unfair.
Didn’t you just start watching like last year or some shit. Also you care an idiot if this is the Portugal you grew up watching especially since the last 20 years CR7 has been carrying Portugal on his back.
The whole Portugal team is working. From attack to midfield to defence, everyone is pressing. Everyone is fighting. This is the Portugal we grew up watching.
1. Haaland took Norway to 1 World Cup qualification and everyone praised him for overachieving (WON NOTHING)
2. Modric took Croatia to one final and everyone lost their minds (WON NOTHING)
3. Cryuff took Netherlands to one final and he is regarded as one of the best (WON NOTHING)
while Ronaldo took a similar minnow nation to
> 1X European Championship
> 2X Uefa Nations League Titles
> 6X World Cup Qualifications
> 6X Euro Qualifications
While becoming the
> Highest goal scorer in Intl Football
> Highest goal scorer in Euro History
> Highest assists provider in Euro History
He has the greatest international legacy. Period. Just because he is better than your favorite, doesn't mean you have to keep coping your entire life. Accept the facts already
🚨 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.”
This is a complete idiotic take. As much as I support Madrid. Flo did Ronaldo dirty and realized too late what a mistake it was going to be. Ten Haag came in wanting to make a point and eventually Ronaldo was proved right. This current situation will also prove CR7 right I’m sure
• He left Real Madrid on bad terms with Flo Perez.
• He left Manchester United on bad terms with the club and Ten hag.
• He’s just left the Portugese national team on bad terms with the coach.
We need to have conversation about how much of an egoistic maniac Ronaldo is.
Barcelona fans cannot complain about raphina losing out when all the fans and the club were pushing Yamal because of his age. And now you guys are realizing you chose wrong and are trying to change history acting like you guys always suopported him to win it.
115 charges against Manchester City but not a single one against Real Madrid who‘ve very obviously been robbing UCLs for decades. Sometimes your geographical luck and being the government‘s favorite will decide about your survival
I was with Vini from when he first signed. I was with him through all the struggles. Until he became what he had. Something is wrong with him. Mentally? Physically? Idk I hope he can overcome whatever it is and go back to his best because this ain’t it.
Hola?? Alguien en casa?? Cómo es posible que uno de nuestros principales patrocinadores nos falte el respeto así???
Ojalá hagan algo al respecto porque esto me parece imperdonable..
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Who the hell wants him to defend? Pressing and defending are 2 different things. No one is expecting him to create. That’s his own making trying to replicate how benzema used to play for us even though that’s not his style. We want him to have learned how to be a 9 after 4 years
Winning Ligue 1 at a PSG super team is not a major honor. Winning continental cups at PSG is not a major honor. It’s expected from them. Every year no one thinks who’s going to win that league. Same with bundesliga and Bayern.
“I said major honor!”
A league is not a major honor ladies and gentlemen, fuck the sport and any league not called the premier according to this people
But we still found a way. That’s what’s missing in this current squad. We had belief that we could come back and win. Now the team seems to give up. And idk how you fix that type of mentality.
The annoying thing about this picture is that anyone who didn't watch our games would think we were prime BBC. Every game was a struggle. We all wanted Ancelotti out at some point. I guess you all have forgotten.
Yes because as soon as Messi moved there the league got magically better over night. Acting like it’s a top tier league when before Messi every one called it a retirement league. But as soon as Messi moved there you idiots are trying to say it’s a top league when it’s not.