Cristiano Ronaldo's Impact on Portugal Football

So this is what I tell you as a Portuguese person.

Do I want to see Portugal without Ronaldo? Of course.

Do I want to bench Cristiano Ronaldo? Absolutely not.

Absolutely not. If Cristiano Ronaldo wants to play until

fifty years old,

then Cristiano Ronaldo can play until fifty years old.

And I will watch Portugal suck with Cristiano Ronaldo at fifty years old.

Because what Cristiano Ronaldo gave me as a Portuguese person, there has

never been a Portuguese person in my entire life that's given me that joy.

You understand? I used to miss World Cups.

I used to not know about anything. Portuguese people didn't know about

going to big competitions until Ronaldo existed.

This is not a Messi and Ronaldo conversation.

This is one Portuguese person to another Portuguese person.

We never had happy times before Ronaldo.

I remember Portugal barely going to a World Cup or a Euro because they had to

beat

Romania in the last second with the, with the Costinha header,

otherwise they were

eliminated and not going to a major competition.

I remember Portugal missing a, a major competition because Ricardo got a

red card

against Germany, and they didn't make a ma--

major competition.

I don't remember missing major competitions when Ronaldo signed up for

Portugal.

Chat, give me a one if you agree. And for everyone who says a golden error,

Ronaldo played with Pauleta. Ronaldo played with Hélder Postiga.

Ronaldo played with Miguel Veloso.

Man, Ronaldo played with the worst Portuguese

players I've ever seen put a

Portuguese shirt on, and he took us to World Cup and Euro after

Euro after Euro after World Cup after World Cup, and every single

player that plays with him right now is because of Cristiano Ronaldo,

and because

of Benfica, and because of Porto, and because of Sporting, because those

teams and those players believed in the young Portuguese kids because they watched

Ronaldo achieve something that no Portuguese players ever achieved

in their

history. And the fact that you wanna turn your back on the one

guy that gave us a

bright light when our team was fucking terrible because now we

have good players when he carried us during the time of

having shit players

blows my mind.