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Thursday, 14 June 2012 14:23 |
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I understand what you are saying but I really don't fully agree with you. I agree that Ronaldo has his issues and sometimes displays a superiority complex towards everyone. The work rate has never been there for him and it will probably not start sunday either. I really do not remember figo and rui costa playing to defensively either but I could be wrong. I am 28 years old so lets say I have been watching religiously since around the mid 90s. When I was a little kid I used to love watching brazil play and argentina when I was younger and quite frankly I didn't have any portuguese players to idolize. Since the early 2000's everything started changing slowly and then a young kid from madeira named cristiano burst on the scene in 2004 and at 21 years old I finally had that player. Maybe it is because my parents are from funchal that I gravitated towards him so much but it is really sickening how people do not see how much he has done. The dutch fans are similar to the portuguese ones. When Van persie does not score he should be thrown in the ocean, if Robben can't curl a shot in consistently he should join van persie in the ocean. What is it about some of you guys that can't seperate results from the big picture. PORTUGUESE SOCCER HAS NEVER EVER BEEN THIS GOOD FOR THIS LONG OF A TIME PERIOD. Look at the team that lines up and look at where those players are at from a club level. Liverpools, chelseas, madrids,, man u etc. Portuguese players from previous generations might have played in those leagues but never on those teams. That is called the cristiano ronaldo effect. I am not saying he is perfect because I am probably his biggest critic. I hate when he blows chances or runs directly into a crowd of 3 defenders and tries to out muscle everyone or look for a foul. I could write a book about how frustrated I have been since he joined manchester united and then the national team. The moral to this long post is that Ronaldo has done so much for his teammates indirectly that will never be appreciated by a lot of portuguese people mainly the older generation. All they care about is results and not the future or what has happen the past few tournaments. What nobody seems to grasp is only one team wins don't forget that. The past 3-4 tournaments Portugal has more than held its own compared to other countries. Even if they lose on sunday to the dutch and somehow get knocked out of this euro cup. I will be the first damn guy ready for the world cup qualifiers and my uncles and father will still be making jokes. Hopefully sometime in my life I can stop hearing these jokes because they are misleading and not true to the quality of this team as it stands today.
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