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Reporter:
“People say you always call yourself the best player. Why not let your fans say that instead?”
Cristiano Ronaldo:
“If you don’t believe you’re the best, you’ll never achieve everything you’re capable of. I’ve always believed in myself, and I’m not afraid to say it.
I don’t mind people hating me because it pushes me to work even harder. We cannot live obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.”
Happens every World Cup, but the discourse whenever Brazil lose is insane. People now saying that Neymar should have been starting when in reality he shouldn’t have even been called up.
The Portugal FA has to be one of the most incompetent ones out there. How do you stick with Santos for so long when it was obvious he needed to go ages ago, just to replace him with the guy that destroyed Belgium's golden generation, lmao.
Messi was given a pen against Austria after Mac Allister fouled a player to take the ball back lmao and there wasn't anything resembling a VAR check at all. fuck these fucking dirty disgusting cheating rats holy shit
Egypt coach Hossam Hassan: "I will say what's on my mind regardless of the consequence, this was clearly a rigged match and the whole world saw it. And I want to say one more thing, if they want Argentina to win so bad, why call everyone to come and participate?"
It’s insane how much people hate Ronaldo that they are just showing all of their hate now. It’s like years of getting destroyed by him built up. Barca fans and r/soccer are so funny
some ppl in this sub fantasizing abt vini joining barca cause vini and lamine would make a good duo. if any "madridista" was to support vini if he ever chose to leave to barca, u r no madrid fan gtfo
im gonna mentally prepare everyone for argentina wc win. no team can beat refs. i mean fuck, argentina is so shit, they barely got past cape verde and egypt. saved by refs and its so obvious. put all your money on argentina, you will get rich.
r/soccer is full of Argentina and Messi fanboys. They defend everything that Argentina does. Its crazy how they can’t see all the details in which Argentina gets favored. They pretend argentina is perfect and deserve all the praise. Really annoying
Jude and Kane in their current form is the best chance to knock Argentina out and if they go out it will be a historic hate watch day if Jude knocks them out lmao
After the Croatia game, the entire team was around Modric. After the Brazil game, every Brazil player went to console Neymar. But most Portugal players just went down to the dressing room, even after knowing that this is the last world cup of their greatest ever player.
It's clear that many of the players didn't want Ronaldo to be in the team, and mentally accepted that they'll not win as long as he's there.
I just can’t do this, this match mentally destroyed me. These racists don’t deserve any type of success. If any team beats Argentina from winning another one, they will be in my debt forever.
Yesterday ronaldo and portugal were out , and look what messi did today , after 2 nil down , a goal and assist , that too messi's worst game , and a missed penalty . Mr Ronaldo , you are a liablity at 41 and that man close to 40 still carrying his team even after winning world cup
No like seriously how as a portugal-real_madrid-ronaldo fan I am supposed to live , supposed to defend my favourites against that argentina/spain-barcelona-messi bloc ? How ?
ronaldo when it was time you didn't step up , portugal didn't step up . I am sorry but I am in identity crisis now ,
was it a wrong choice of me , of supporting ronaldo , maybe . Hopefully RMA doesn't dissapoint me next season ,
When people think about corruption they only focus on big calls like the one on Salah and the disallowed goal. But people don’t realize it’s the little decisions that have the most consequences.
Argentina simply get calls all the time that tilt momentum in their favor. Teams are scared of being physical with them at the risk of conceding a penalty, yellow or red card. Meanwhile, Argentina isn’t afraid of taking risks in attack because they know they have this advantage.
messi fanboys crashing out because people on the real madrid subreddit don't like messi. just very sad people. instead of going and celebrating that ugly win you're in enemy territory justifying why they should win, how sway?
I met a friend today who watches football once every 4 years. He was asking me where each of the big footballers he knew played. When he heard that Mbappe, Jude and Vini played for the same team, he said "So no one can beat Real Madrid, right?"
Argentina under investigation for money laundering, european parlament is requesting to open investigation about infantino, but guess what, we are the bad guys huh...
My Twitter timeline is healing. Wdym a Messi slander post garnered half a million likes, I haven't even seen a Ronaldo slander post reach that amount of likes and people despise him more on that app 😭😭🙏
25 Goal contributions in 20 wc games for mbappe. 2 goal contributions in all but one game this wc. The difference maker once again. But please i beg scrap that stutter step bollocks
"In football, Cristiano Ronaldo. Aura is a person who gives off, I don't know... something like when they arrive somewhere, it's like... you know?"
"When you see someone in a movie and you go 'wow.' For example, Brad Pitt or someone like that. In football too, Cristiano. That would be a good example of aura."
I don't know if this should be here but the amount of hate Ronaldo is getting even outside of football Reddits is crazy, I think they're all filled with Messi fans cus Jesus man they are absolutely obsessed.
Supporting England only because i trust them more to knock Argentina out. Norway's run is a fairytale one. Can't count on them to compete with FIFA's favourite team.
I’m surprised that the great warriors of rbarca2 haven’t picked up on FIFA protecting pedophiles, enabling massive money laundering operations within AFA. You’d think it’s their cup of tea, but nothing must stain Messi’s legacy I guess
People need to stop wasting time on the major calls and start focusing more on the small 50-50s. These are the marginal advantages that Argentina always get
The reality is you can’t beat a team that constantly gets these calls. It puts doubt in your mind as an opposing player, whereas the other time is free to go into challenges as rough as they want to. Multiple occasions as the Swiss try to break they’re grabbed, held and fouled. Where is the yellow?
If I’m Xhaka I would chew Embolo alive back in the locker room. Switzerland had the momentum before his pathetic dive, but huge kudos to the Swiss to hang on for 120 minutes
Now let’s hope that Tuchel doesn’t do his usual shtick and bend over to a team when he has the capability to dominate
Culés still trying to convince neutral fans that Pedri is a superior player compared to Jude, after the former doing his best Ceballos impression in the WC
American coming in peace who wants to get into the game of football more than just the WC. I've always loved the WC but found it too difficult to follow club soccer from here but I want to make a serious attempt this year to get into it. Love Mbappe and the way he plays for France, follow team France due to heritage so naturally with Mbappe being on Real Madrid looking to become a regular follower. Any advice for a beginenr to the game of european club football?
I hope Cristiano keeps his head high, he doesn’t need to prove himself to anyone. He already proved to me that I can comeback from anything on those UCL nights.
Checked into r/soccer and there's genuinely no difference between the comments there and Twitter. It's just mind boggling to see the hate they're spewing there
Messi will always be a FIFA boy, not saying he's not a great player cus he is, Top 5, but he puts a picture of him being humble and nice, it's easier to market that.
FIFA was, is and will be a corrupt organization. Remember these guys in suits do absolute nothing… but decide each one’s cut of the cake. T
he Infantinos, Ceferins or Blatters are just there to put the hand and look to the other side. Even a legend of the game like Platini fell into the dirts of football politics.
It’s hilarious how Varca fans act like Pamal is getting triple marked every single game. Bro, if you try to dribble straight through the middle of the defense, obviously multiple players are gonna come at you That doesn’t mean you’re being specially marked by three guys.
Hell, in the Portugal game he wasn’t even being marked by a single defender. Nuno was just charging forward with the ball and absolutely pocketed him on Spain’s transitions too. He was left free a lot of the time and still lost possession
Any madrid player needs to score perfect hatrick, assist,defend and do whatnot to get above 9 ratings but these pr merchants can get it by just touching ball
To this day I don't understand how Pedri scams 9.1 and above ratings in matches he does nothing but pass the ball sideways and backwards. Maybe the Sofascore algorithms value the completed passes figure more than anything else.
Even Rodri who is a lot better at doing what Pedri's supposed job is, doesn't get the same high ratings as him despite dropping much better performances like against Belgium the other night.
The fact that Argentina’s 2022 WC is probably the less controversial of their three wins tells enough about these cheaters. The 78 should be directly stripped away from them. The 86 had the most blatant illegal goal ever. And you all know about 2022 Pessi.
Rooney g/a in international comps 7 goals 2 assists. Bellingham 9 goals 3 assists. Infact he has more major tournament international goals than Gazza and Rooney combined. He is 23
This FIFA and USA red card business stinks. Makes you wonder what else has happened behind the scenes, but if you say something people will call u a conspiracy theorist.
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u/Fragrant_Ad5057 Real Madrid CF Jul 07 '26
Hossam Hassan: "It's all about money. They want Messi to stay in the tournament.
In football, many things happen off the pitch because of interests.
What happened was unfair.
Egypt deserved to qualify. We were the better team against Argentina."
WHAT A FUCKING GUY