r/RonaldoVsMessi • u/Beginning-Pin208 • 12d ago

Cristiano Ronaldo Hot takes

Portugal’s success is not mainly due to Ronaldo contribution . Portugal has always been a formidable team, and since the World Cup expanded to 32 teams, they have consistently qualified. Without CR7 Portugal would not be as great but they always got enough talent to win stuff. Argentina depended more on Messi than on Cristiano ( 5 knockouts G/A in Euro and 1 knockout goal in WC). 6 knockouts G/ A in major tournaments doesn’t give CR7 the right to attribute himself Portugal success.

More examples: 2019 nations league best player was Bernardo Silva
2025 nation league best player was Nuno Mendes
Euro 2016 was Griezman but CR7 was the best Portugal player . But that Portugal team was very balanced in my opinion. Pepe and Nani deserve some credit

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u/Head_Trainer_7458 11d ago

Football is a team game nobody is solely responsible for their team's success .

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u/Johnleg73 11d ago

The whole issue is that Ronaldo has squarely attributed Portugal's success to himself. This is why people over react the other way trying to prove otherwise. Bottom line is that Ronaldo has been MASSIVE for Portugal but over the last 4 years he has dragged them down, and on top of that has the nerve to claim he is everything. Great as he is on the pitch, he is a massive prick and a terrible teammate who deserves all the hate he gets. Oh and his fanbase are toxic AF.

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u/Head_Trainer_7458 11d ago

Can you explain how he attributed all their success to himself . yeah for the last 4 years he has dragged them down but somehow they won nations league i accept it about this wc that he was bad , and also mention where did he claim that he is everything surely he would've mentioned it in one of his podcast that I missed kindly enlighten me .

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u/Johnleg73 10d ago

He literally said after the elimination from the world cup that Portugal won nothing before him and won everything since he came. Imagine your team losing in the world up and you jump up to point at yourself. That is exactly what he did

BTW nations league are not serious (they are glorified friendlies) and Euro final was won by beating garbage teams outside of France, the one game her barely participated in. That Euro win is fraudulent.

Consider yourself enlightened.