In 2006, in the World Cup semi-final, 21-year-old C Luo was red after losing to France, and the team's big brother Figo hugged and comforted him: "You are still young, the future of Portugal depends on you." In that World Cup, Ronaldo scored his debut goal and withstood the pressure to score the winning penalty in the penalty shootout against England.

Everyone believes that after the aging of Portugal's golden generation, C Luo will surely be able to carry the banner of Portuguese football to rebuild its glory. In 2022, the World Cup quarter-final, 37-year-old Ronaldo broke down in tears after losing to Morocco...

As the team's big brother, he can only bear the sadness of missing the World Cup.

When C Luo has been unable to enter the knockout stage of the starting list, everyone finally realized that the era of C Luo is nearing the end.

When Ronaldo returned to Manchester United last year, it was not only United fans who rejoiced, but also Portuguese fans who believed that Ronaldo could reinvigorate where his dream began and lead Portugal one step further in this year's World Cup. However, contrary to expectations, C Luo was finally able to participate in the World Cup as a free player...

Last World Cup, C Luo showed excellent state in the group stage, 4 goals to help the team smoothly.

This Cup, C Luo's state in the first two games is also good: in the first game against Ghana, he opened the scoring for Portugal with a goal. The second round against Uruguay, C Luo also indirectly helped his teammates to break, so that Portugal locked the qualification in advance.

The third game, C Luo could have chosen to rest, but he still stubbornly chose to play. He wanted to prove himself, to prove that the slander against him was wrong...

Perhaps you can accuse C Ronaldo of "holding back" in the club, but in the national team, C Ronaldo will not be stingy on the field every point of input. However, it is also from the third game, C Luo's trend of this World Cup has taken a sharp turn. Due to the lack of goals and wasted opportunities, C Luo has been widely criticized by public opinion, the final round of the own goal assist, but also let him become a target.

Facing Switzerland in the first round of the knockout tournament, the Portuguese coaching team chose to remove C Luo from the starting lineup, and the team also eliminated the Swiss team with a big win, which made "C Luo useless theory" become the mainstream of public opinion for a time.

It is true that the passage of time has made C Luo no longer the brave of the past, and he is not the invincible Mr. Big scene on the field in the past, but C Luo is still worthy of every opportunity to wear the national team shirt.

Even if he is not happy about playing as a substitute, off the field, C Luo is even more "hard" than on the field: cheering for the substitute young people, putting pressure on the referee team, and giving reasonable advice to teammates on the field. Who in the world would most like to lead Portugal to victory? It must be Cristiano Ronaldo.

However, a different picture emerges through the media. The camera is more likely to capture Ronaldo "expressing dissatisfaction" for his own goals to his teammates, rather than taking close-ups of Ronaldo cheering for his teammates.

The text is more likely to describe Ronaldo's disagreements with the coach and be a locker room bomb than to reflect Ronaldo's true role as a spiritual leader in the team's dressing room.

Even if the national team coach Santos and his teammates came out again and again to clarify the strength of the matter to support C Luo, they could not stand up to the media's rumors: in their view, the mentoring friendship between C Luo and Santos over the years is less than the starting qualification of a game. Even the Portuguese media, once the most solid backing of C Ronaldo, also criticized C Ronaldo as a hype hot spot...

Cristiano Ronaldo knows better than anyone that the best way for him to silence the doubters for 19 years is to score goals - so, after coming off the bench today, Cristiano Ronaldo fought to get close to the opposing goal, trying to save the team with a goal, and hit the critics in the face. In the Premier League, Ronaldo has done just that, hitting back at questions about his off-field life with goals and titles.

In La Liga, C Ronaldo did it, he broke the scoring record again and again to beat the bitter enemy mouthpiece media. In the Champions League, Ronaldo did just that, retaining his reputation as the king of the knockout rounds with a hat-trick and classic reversals. In the national team, C Luo also did it, the European Cup champion and "resolute eyes" forever recorded in history.

C Luo only needs a goal, a goal can make the Portuguese team back to life, a goal can eliminate external noise, a goal can... But instead of the goal, the final whistle announced defeat. Cristiano Ronaldo cried, he wanted to let the tears in the celebration of victory, but today, the taste of tears only pain.

And those who had been inseparable critics and doubts, also silent after the game. Because today's C Luo, really want to win.