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Indeed, there have been many articles released saying that Ronaldo played in the last World Cup at the Qatar World Cup because remembering that Ronaldo himself is old and it is impossible to be able to participate in the upcoming World Cup.
In terms of his playing in the Qatar World Cup yesterday, he started to look less good and his skills started to decrease.
I am also sure that in the future Portugal will also have new football players who are reliable and can bring Portugal to compete in the upcoming World Cup.
Yeah, Cristiano Ronaldo playing now in Saudi Arabia was a bit like him retiring from football.
There's nowhere near the level of competition he's used to in his previous clubs, so he will no longer be playing at the highest levels.
Even if he plays the next world cup, he won't be in the best shape.
That's right, because age and stamina no longer support Ronaldo to be able to play well. Therefore, in the last few matches, his enthusiasm was indeed extraordinary, but his playing skills could no longer keep up with Ronaldo's own enthusiasm and determination.
It is possible that the Saudi club is the last football club that will be defended by Ronaldo and after the contract is completed it is possible that Ronaldo will decide to prefer to retire from football and it is very unlikely that he will be able to participate in the upcoming World Cup to defend Portugal.
Ronaldo has not been playing at the highest level for the last few years and in a way he is becoming a problematic player who causes problems and does not benefit his teams, Juve, Manchester or the Portuguese national team.
Ronaldo is a very selfish person who cannot accept that he is no longer the most important player in his teams and because of this there is discord in the teams he plays in and because of this the results of those teams suffer.
Just look at what happened to Manchester United in the first part of the season or Portugal at the World Cup in Qatar.
Ronaldo will never play again in a serious European club or for the Portuguese national team, and he went to Saudi Arabia as a highly paid football pensioner solely because of his marketing potential and to help Saudi Arabia become the host of the world football cup.
His attitude and level of play recently is the reason why no serious European club wanted him.
Well, it's understandable, the holy book said something which I think relate to this, it said "A halty spirit is the beginning of a down fall", meaning is simple, A player as talented as Ronaldo will need to battle himself and defeat his ego in other to stay humble, humility is the only way he could have gone really far, but it's rather unfortunate it seems as though he has failed or failing in this area, and the result of this failure is so glaring to each and every one of us right now.
I am personally happy for him though, I am happy for his achievements, and for the fact that all this is happening at a time he is preparing to retire, but I really hope he will pull himself together and get his acts right, let his story not be told as a very talented player that started really well, but ended very badly because of his arrogance.
Regardless of the poor performance at the World Cup in Qatar, Ronaldo, together with Messi, has provided great games for Real and the Portuguese national team for years, and we have to thank him for that. Messi and Ronaldo raised the interest in football and took it to a higher level.
He was European champion with Portugal, but he failed to win the title at the world cups, unlike Messi and Argentina.
Such great football players usually have a big ego and because of that they don't know how to recognize the right moment to stop playing and retire from football, the moment when they are no longer the best.
Portugal had a very good national team in Qatar, even without Ronaldo, but due to the conflict between Ronaldo and the coach, relations in the team were damaged and because of this, the team did not achieve the expected result at this world cup.
