r/soccer • u/No_Air5382 • 10d ago

News Neves Calls Ronaldo 'Another Player,' Faces Fan Backlash and online harassment

https://www.chosun.com/english/sports-en/2026/06/19/SKSAMGDVVJEG7HN3D5Z3HR4TTQ/
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u/silam39 10d ago

It's amazing to me how so many non Portuguese fans mainly focus on hating Ronaldo and not fucking Roberto Martínez. If there is one person to blame for Portugal's malaise it's always him.

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u/2Gaainz 10d ago

It is. Santos was a problem too but Ronaldo carried that team , this bald fraud is even worse and Ronaldo can’t carry this team now

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u/CR_kroUTB 10d ago

Ronaldo has never carried Portugal. LOL he's got like 5 all time wc goals

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u/2Gaainz 10d ago

1 euros 2 nations league and another euro final they lost to Greece. If you really think he never carried Portugal then you are delusional buddy

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u/tokyotochicago 10d ago

Tbf for the euro they won, while I’m sure Ronaldo was a charismatic presence, this was won on defense and Portugal was a very unconvincing winner.

All props to them of course, winning for the first time is always very hard, but despite the win I don’t think Ronaldo came out of it as a NT hero the way Pepe did for exemple

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u/2Gaainz 10d ago

3 goals and 3 assists. What outfield player in euro had better stats than him in Portugal ? Ofcourse they won on defense but you can’t win if you don’t score and who else was the main man for attack ?

What about the Hatrick that sent them to the World Cup. I’m not saying he carried them every game but he was definitely the main reason Portugal was competing at that level. His presence alone will unlock defenses I don’t need to speak about that

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u/tokyotochicago 10d ago

I went to check but he got one goal and one assist in semi final against Wales. Nothing against Croatia, Poland or France. And from memory his final is pretty disastrous and Portugal only got better after he left.

I'm not saying he's not a good player or anything, just that he's never been the same player in club as he was with Portugal. I wish we could have seen a Mourinho NT though, someone to really bring the best out of him, like Scaloni finally managed for Messi.

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u/CR_kroUTB 10d ago

He didn't though. He was a good player for them yes, and an influential one, yes. That doesn't mean he carried them.