# Cristiano Ronaldo and the Portuguese Football Federation's Dependence

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2106092884906623183
- Source account: [@dissidente1983](https://x.com/dissidente1983)
- Source language: Portuguese
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:02
- Published: 2026-10-03
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- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4jqNLOUQwyJj/pt/cristiano-ronaldo-e-a-depend%C3%AAncia-da-federa%C3%A7%C3%A3o-portuguesa-de-futebol.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4jqNLOUQwyJj/en/cristiano-ronaldo-and-the-portuguese-football-federation-s-dependence) Jorge Jesus did what he did, because the team doesn't depend on Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese Football Federation did what it did because the Portuguese Football Federation depends on Cristiano Ronaldo.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4jqNLOUQwyJj/en/cristiano-ronaldo-and-the-portuguese-football-federation-s-dependence?t=10) And, well, we'll see, I don't know if this is over yet.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4jqNLOUQwyJj/en/cristiano-ronaldo-and-the-portuguese-football-federation-s-dependence?t=13) Whether it's in this difference of a team that no longer depends, no, obviously, no team depends on a forty-one-year-old player, that doesn't exist.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4jqNLOUQwyJj/en/cristiano-ronaldo-and-the-portuguese-football-federation-s-dependence?t=21) When people talk about gratitude, there isn't any, I mean, football by, by nature…

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4jqNLOUQwyJj/en/cristiano-ronaldo-and-the-portuguese-football-federation-s-dependence?t=28) Is cruel. It's cruel in this regard, physically with people. No, all right.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4jqNLOUQwyJj/en/cristiano-ronaldo-and-the-portuguese-football-federation-s-dependence?t=32) There are things that last until, a person can work until they're 90 years old, right?

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4jqNLOUQwyJj/en/cristiano-ronaldo-and-the-portuguese-football-federation-s-dependence?t=36) We'll still be here, like us, us commenting in our nineties, that doesn't happen to an athlete. And so, it's in this— now, the, the The grave fault isn't Cristiano Ronaldo's.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4jqNLOUQwyJj/en/cristiano-ronaldo-and-the-portuguese-football-federation-s-dependence?t=46) The grave fault lies with a federation that allowed itself to get into such a situation of dependence, where the ending could never be good, it could only be this. And it's bad for the federation, bad for Cristiano Ronaldo,

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4jqNLOUQwyJj/en/cristiano-ronaldo-and-the-portuguese-football-federation-s-dependence?t=59) bad for everyone, and it didn't have to be this way