Ronaldo very optimistic about Portugal Football World Cup chances

DOHA (Reuters) - Portugal Football World Cup forward Cristiano Ronaldo trusts his country has an excellent group of players and they are accomplished of doing well in the World Cup in Qatar. Ronaldo said he had fantasized about winning the World Cup but knows it will be very problematic to lift the trophy with teams like France, Spain, Argentina, Germany, and Brazil to face.

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"I am very hopeful. We have a fantastic coach, we have a good cohort of football players. I’m looking forward that was going to an amazing Football World Cup," Ronaldo told Piers Morgan for Talk TV." It’s gonna be tough. Very difficult. But all are likely, of course, we’re gonna compete." The 37-year-old added that Qatar would perhaps be his last World Cup as he tactics to retire at 40.

"I want to play two, three more years all-out. I want to finish at 40, it will be a good age. But I don t know. Occasionally you plan one thing for your life and as I told you many times, life is dynamic," Ronaldo said. Portugal s skipper also talked about Argentina s Lionel Messi, telling him as "magic, top and like a teammate" after distribution the global stage with him for 16 years.

Fernandes duos as Portugal warm up with a big win over Nigeria

Bruno Fernandes scored a double in the first half and debutant Goncalo Ramos and Joao Mario added late goals as Portugal crumpled Nigeria 4-0 in a World Cup warm-up in Lisbon on Thursday. Missing Cristiano Ronaldo due to a stomach bug, his Manchester United team-mate Fernandes led a strong Portugal side in their last match beforehand itinerant to Doha on Friday.

"It was a win that give us great sureness ahead of our debut against Ghana.

"We are a team, it is not about persons and we have a great group, young players that are up and coming and hungry. We are prepared for the Football World Cup." Coach Fernando Santos made six replacements in the second half and Ramos counted Portugal s third immediately after Portugal’s goalkeeper saved a consequence from Emmanuel Dennis after the VAR dotted Dalot s foul in the 81st minute. To know more about Portugal Vs Ghana Tickets click here.

Ramos took a short pass from Raphael Guerreiro in his stride and unchecked a powerful shot low into the middle of the goal. Joao Mario closed out the win with a strike into the lowest corner to the delight of about 45,000 fans in the stadium. Portugal is in World Cup Group H with Ghana, Uruguay, and South Korea.

Ronaldo to retire if Portugal wins Football World Cup

Cristiano Ronaldo proclaimed Thursday that he will retire from professional football if Portugal wins the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The Portuguese star said in a TV interview with British journalist and TV presenter Piers Morgan that he will "100%" hang up his boots if his national team bags the competition in Qatar.

The Portuguese skipper said his team is not the favorite of the upcoming competition and he thinks France is the toughest adversary. He said his arch-rival, Lionel Messi, is a "magic" player and added that Messi and France legend Zinedine Zidane is perhaps the best player in the world, without himself.

The 37-year-old also said he weakened to become the most-paid player in the world by revolving down a €350 million ($362 million) offer from a Saudi club.

The five-time Ballon d'Or winner is in his second spell at Manchester United after playing for Real Madrid and Juventus for manifold periods. Ronaldo became the first player in history to reach 700 club goals last month when he scored against Everton in an English Premier League match.

Mercurial Portugal facing the difficult task at Qatar World Cup 2022

Not for the first time, Portugal’s fate at the 2022 World Cup is closely tied to Ronaldo.

Previous World Cup appearances: 7
Titles: 0
Best finish: Semi-finals (1966, 2006)
World Cup Record: W14 D6 L10
Goals scored: 49
Biggest win: 7-0 (North Korea 2010)
Player to watch: Cristiano Ronaldo
Current ranking: 9th
Fixtures: Ghana (November 24), Uruguay (November 28), South Korea (December 2)

Portugal Football World Cup

So naturally, the story around the country’s upcoming World Cup campaign is shaped by the fact that it is his final bow in this phase, his last accidental to win Portugal its first World Cup. There are few teams in the football world as changeable as Portugal. To know more about Portugal Vs Uruguay Tickets click here.

In the past period, they’ve touched the Euro semi-finals (2012), won their first major trophy (Euro 2016), and also raised the opening Nations League title in 2019. It’s debatably the greatest era in Portuguese football and yet, they’ve been abysmal in the intervening World Cups.

Portugal hasn’t made it to the quarter-finals since 2006.

In 2014, they were knocked out in the group stages. Four years later, they were detached in the round of 16. In the past three Football World Cups, they’ve won just three competitions. Ronaldo is yet to score in the hit phases of a World Cup.

Whom do they have in their group?

The Seleção das Quinas is the highest-ranked team in their group of South Korea, Uruguay, and Ghana and are foreseeable to top it. The standout fixture will be their match against Uruguay, the team that knocked them out of Russia in 2018. One of the state’s three wins in the past three World Cups came against Ghana, who was in Portugal’s group in Brazil in 2014.

Qualification and form

A loss to Serbia in their last qualifier entrusted Portugal to the playoffs, where they held their courage against Turkey and then North Macedonia to seal their spot at the Football World Cup.

They have become authorities in these high-stakes encounters – this is the third consecutive World Cup they have fit for through the playoffs. “The finest is yet to come, I can’t be more exact than that. The best is yet to come and it will come this year,” said boss Federico Santos after their win over the Czech National in September.

The Ronaldo factor

At 37, Ronaldo is not the power he once was. Despite scoring 24 goals for Manchester United last season, Portugal’s best scorer has found himself on the fringes of the team this year. While Santos remains unperturbed by Ronaldo’s recent woes and has certain him of a place in his starting lineup, his inclusion is a massive point of argument among Portuguese fans.

Portugal Football World Cup Player Ronaldo has scored five goals in his last 10 arrivals for Portugal. All five goals came in two games. As is the case at United, the discussion over Ronaldo is that in accommodating him in the XI, the team loses its equilibrium. Moreover, with players like Bernado Silva, João Félix, Rafael Leão, and Bruno Fernandes, Portugal has no shortage of aggressive options.

Not for the first time, Portugal’s destiny at the World Cup is closely tied to Ronaldo. But, this time it’s not in the way we’d envisaged.

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