Rome, 18 June (LaPresse) – A mere ‘2’ in the player ratings for the brightest star of all. The Portuguese press showed no mercy to anyone following the national team’s disappointing 1-1 draw against Congo, not even to Cristiano Ronaldo, the striker with six World Cups to his name. The daily newspaper ‘Record’ gave him a blunt thumbs-down with an unequivocal ‘mark’, and ‘A Bola’ also piled on the criticism of the superstar’s performance, particularly regarding his post-match behaviour: “He was one of the first to leave the pitch and did not take part in the lap of honour carried out by his teammates.” “He just wants to score and gets in his teammates’ way in his quest to find the net,” declared another star player, the Frenchman Thierry Henry, now a pundit. “It doesn’t work like that,” writes ‘Record’ again in a full-page spread, featuring a picture of CR7 with his head bowed – a performance that could now even put his place in the starting line-up at risk.
2026 World Cup: Portugal puts Ronaldo on trial, CR7 given a 2 in the ratings
Rome, 18 June (LaPresse) – A mere ‘2’ in the player ratings for the brightest star of all. The Portuguese press showed no mercy to anyone following the national team’s disappointing 1-1 draw against Congo, not even to Cristiano Ronaldo, the striker with six World Cups to his name. The daily newspaper ‘Record’ gave him a blunt thumbs-down with an unequivocal ‘mark’, and ‘A Bola’ also piled on the criticism of the superstar’s performance, particularly regarding his post-match behaviour: “He was one of the first to leave the pitch and did not take part in the lap of honour carried out by his teammates.” “He just wants to score and gets in his teammates’ way in his quest to find the net,” declared another star player, the Frenchman Thierry Henry, now a pundit. “It doesn’t work like that,” writes ‘Record’ again in a full-page spread, featuring a picture of CR7 with his head bowed – a performance that could now even put his place in the starting line-up at risk.
