Cristiano Ronaldo using a lying dictator,Ronaldo’s response will blow your mind.
He said he can’t swap all his champions league trophy for one World Cup.
Dear Cristiano,
I never planned to love a footballer this way.
I was never the kid with posters on the wall or jerseys on my back. I watched matches the way you watch weather. Casually. Indifferently. Then I saw you around 2008, falling apart on a pitch in Moscow. It was not the first time I had watched you play, but it was the first time I felt you. And I did not understand why a grown man's tears made my chest tighten.
But they did.
And from that night, something shifted. Not because you were the best ever, though you became that, but because you hurt like the rest of us. Only you turned that hurt into fire. Every free kick you took, every last-minute leap, every time the world counted you out and you rose anyway, I count my blessings that I was watching a refusal. A quiet, furious refusal to be ordinary.
I did not become a commentator because of football. I became one because of you. I wanted to be close enough to translate your greatness into words that wouldn't embarrass you. And sometimes, not always, but sometimes, I hope I got it right. I hope I did.
That night, Spain ended one of our dreams. And as you walked off, head high but eyes older than they should be, I felt something I wasn't ready for: the end of my own story too.
Because if I am honest, and I want to be, I don't know if I can call another goal with the same pulse. I don't know if I can find the same poetry in another name.
Maybe I will go back to what I was. Quiet. Unnoticed. Drawing plans that make sense, in a world that no longer has your curveball magic in it.
But I will carry you with me. Not as a legend, though you are that, but as the reason I found my voice and passion in football world.
Thank you, Cristiano. For the goals. For the tears. For making an ordinary person believes in impossible angles.
That Portugal's midfield is the most useless midfield I have seen in this tournament.
No sign of urgency. But at the end all haters will say Ronaldo is the one stopping them.
It's so painful to see a hero with a team that is unserious.