Cristiano Ronaldo | FIFA World Cup Career | Mini Doc
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as so often portugal's hopes
rest on cristiano ronaldo shelters
ronaldo
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it's a warm indeed very humid night
here in sochi there is a
very tangible sense of anticipation
it's portugal's first game at the 2018
fifa world cup russia cristiano ronaldo
is appearing at his fourth world cup
the third in which he'll capture his
country yeah supporters went into the
2018 world cup has european champions
they
won euro 2016 beat france the host and
the final
i think there were a lot of expectations
about portugal
going into the world cup that perhaps
they could finally go
farther than just the group stage and
the round of 16.
cristiano faces the nation he has just
spent the last nine years plying his
in spain i think that definitely
motivated
ronaldo himself you know a lot of those
players would have been his teammates of
course at real madrid he really wanted
to
leave everything on the field and that's
exactly what we saw
ronaldo is that a penalty it is
it doesn't take long for cr7 to make his
mark
inside the opening three minutes
cristiano ronaldo
fell in the penalty area cristiano now
has the chance to score for his country
from the penalty spot he's been here
before
21 year old cristiano ronaldo
waits for referee pular's whistle
composes himself
and scores he had been at the years two
years prior
and they made it to the finals losing
out to greece he was already
arguably portugal's most potent
attacking weapon
and that was a really good portugal team
in the early naughties team that ronaldo
found himself part of was a phenomenal
team in terms of talent one reason why
ronaldo did well at that tournament
he wasn't portugal's sole focus point
you know you had seymour subrasa who was
doing very well of course she had louis
figo she had deco
the netherlands game in the last 16 was
actually a brutal experience for ronaldo
the netherlands tried to take him out of
the game take him out of the equation
and that's what they did an absolutely
horrendous tackle
that was a very scandalous game where
you had 16 yellow cards you had four red
cards i mean that was a really
difficult game for both teams uh for
cristiano that was a learning moment
as he got older and he got fitter and
more muscular if you like
stronger and that's probably a game we
would have been able to ride more
it was more what happened in that game
against england that took all the
headlines
there is this fault of
rooney against ricardo carvajal
and rooney and all the english
team said that cristiano go to the
referee to say give him red card
and that is walking over to the bench he
gives a nice little wink
and of course everybody in england
understandably was very upset
i mean it definitely i think was an
early sign of
what was to come over the next few years
in terms of christian ronaldo and his
personality
the england game actually ended
perfectly for ronaldo despite all his
controversy as he took the winning
penalty
in the shootout it is
it's all over for england portugal going
to the last four
they overcame him on penalties and then
lost to a french team as inspired by
zinedine zidane who's absolutely
exceptional in that game and it's his
world
at the moment
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portugal tried to get back into it they
were quite close on a few occasions
he goes for gold but can't
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cristiano ronaldo against david de gea
it's one nil portugal and was there ever
any doubt
it just had to be him portugal's lead
only lasts 20 minutes pepe gets the head
up
and goes down play continues it's diego
costa
can he get the shot away koster scores
well ronaldo's mentality isn't it i
think that's what makes him
the player he is just before half time
cristiano has slipped the ball on the
edge of the box
ronaldo with the shot oh it's gone in
an error from david and cristiano
ronaldo
gets portugal's second goal of the night
portugal are back in front tonight
cristiano is on a mission against spain
perhaps motivated by revenge for what
happened in the past
ronaldo 2010 was a very very different
ronaldo to ronaldo 2006.
between those two world cups he signs
for real madrid he becomes the most
expensive player to sign for the club
and in the world at that point in time
for
94 million euros and at that point he
had become the leader and the captain
of portugal with a room in which the
turn for ronaldo
made room for the shot oh off the post
what a strike he had a different manager
to play under
first he had different teammates
arguably the best player in the world
after winning
champions league with manchester united
the attention is drawn to him much more
than before
here's ronaldo no free kick carlos k
raj the coach had come in unfortunately
for portugal
it all went horribly wrong the
relationship between
ronaldo and k raj was very strained
and i think that was really stemmed from
the tactics employed by k
raj his whole tactic seemed to be let's
just make our
team as difficult to score against as
possible
and our attacking sister would just be
whack the ball
up to ronaldo and let him work some
magic on his own
and it just didn't work at all great
opportunity here for brazil to concede
once uh during that tournament albeit
was an excellent goal
uh against north korea where he's sort
of juggling actually he balanced the
ball on the back of his neck and sort of
rolled it over the top of his head and
then scored
and then it was the derby uh the iberian
derby
and they got knocked out to spain who at
least for them a bit of comfort
is knowing that they went on to win the
whole tournament altogether
and they were a fabulous spanish site
nobody really could take them apart
nobody could really
beat them at all it's true that spain
have a beautiful team at this time
i think there was a lot of pressure on
cristiano ronaldo to be this
big figure since he was this worldwide
superstar
but unfortunately he came up against
this spanish
wall that he just wasn't able to break
through
after the game ronaldo was asked what
went wrong and i think he told the
germans to ask carlos quiroz in quite a
pointed fashion i think it's one world
cup which
you can't really blame him at all for
his lack of production it was definitely
just the team wasn't set up to
get the best out of him at all the world
cup disappointing in the finish
disappointing and not not scoring the
goals that people expected him to score
but
it was the foundation for him as a
player to to improve on and build
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and portugal are now the ones with the
upper hand
they lead 2-1 with 45 minutes left on
the clock
cristiano ronaldo has turned this group
match back in portugal's favor
with spain applying more pressure
there's not too much cristiano can do
except hope his defense will hold firm
silva with a little chip
back across goal turned in
diego custer strikes again
a simple free-kick move from spain and
for the second time tonight in sochi
spain have equalized but then there's
not much the defense can do
when the ball falls to nacho now it
might drop for the shot here
oh what a shot that is
nacho the man who gave away the penalty
early on in this match has
redeemed himself in style
thanks to a wonder strike spain have
turned the game around
they now lead 3-2 and it looks like
history is set to repeat itself
it seems cristiano can't shake his bad
luck at the world cup
germany lee the height of hummels the
goal of humbles
germany get another one and they do
terrible
terrible defending germany have got four
but a dreadful day and an awful start
for portugal
so in the way that ronaldo had
progressed quite a lot between 2006 and
2010 he progressed equally
a far distance between 2010 and 2014. he
went to that tournament the champions
league winner with real madrid
ballon d'or winner it was not a great
tournament uh he have a lot of problem a
physical problem but he wants to stay
he wants to be there so he decided to
play through the pain
and to play through the injury because
he felt that without
him they weren't going to be able to
advance but it didn't matter in the end
because it just didn't it didn't work
out germany were phenomenal in 2014 she
went on to win the tournament but
nevertheless to get
beat four nil it was portugal's heaviest
defeat at a world cup it was pretty
humiliating portugal were
really ronaldo centric at this time
against the united states
that defense they they really put a
clamp down and
it was very difficult for him with the
ball in bradley
chance for usa and it's a goal
it was quite amazing actually that
ronaldo managed to
to pull out of the bag a chance to keep
their world cup alive
just by the slimmers of fred's virgin
the last kick of the game
unless we have a most dramatic twist in
the final seconds now into the last 30
oh and we have it's a dream of a cross
from ronaldo
and buries it he was gonna play until
the last whistle
of every game that's his mentality that
is what he drives for he's not going to
rest but i think he figures you know
even if i have you know my leg amputated
i'm going to go out there and i'm going
to still try and score
or at least set somebody else up to
score because
he's just that focused and that
determined
the last game against ghana all sorts of
permutations portugal was still
in of a shelter qualifying that
basically they needed to win
and win big ronaldo managed to score the
goal but it was already quite near
towards the end of the game
maybe now ronaldo yes he has
goal number 50 in his international
career
it was too little too late at that point
and the damage was done and they weren't
able to get
out of the group and they crashed out
very early on in the world cup
in a very disappointing world cup for
portugal he was probably portugal's best
player it was probably at that moment
maybe that's
the gap between portugal's best player
ronaldo and the rest of the team was
most exposed it's definitely a world cup
where portugal paid a price for
just not being fit enough
ronaldo goes down gets a free kick
challengers by pk now this is a key
moment
we know who's going to strike it the
game approaches its final minutes
cristiano stands over a free kick
displaying his trademark stance
this for his hat-trick and to save
portugal from defeat
ronaldo oh
genius absolute genius
would you believe it it was a phenomenal
goal everybody at that point we just
kind of fell out of this season said
okay
it's not spain's day we just need to
accept that this is all about cristiano
ronaldo
you don't see those individual
performances in the world cup that often
it actually sums up
ronaldo a brilliant goal scored in a
huge game at a critical moment
exemplary perfection
and it's a hat-trick for cristiano
ronaldo
in their next game against morocco
cristiano's fine
form continues as he scores the decisive
goal in a promising performance
he is a sensation
he would be his 85th goal in the
international
scene he would pass feren's puskas and
so he then became
the highest goal scorer in europe in
international football
and the second overall in the world
against ir iran
a quaresma wonder goal puts portugal
ahead
was cristiano's world cup luck turning
at last
this will give portugal breathing space
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ronaldo is denied
and the game and the group are still
very much alive
cristiano's missed penalty ultimately
costs portugal the top spot in their
group
which means they'll face uruguay in the
round of 16
a formidable opponent round to 16 they
run into
uruguay which is a tough matchup because
their defense
is geared it's very physical really
caused uh problems
for cristiano ronaldo war was able to
deal with the considerable threat
not his finest hour from a free-kick
suarez over on that far side and it's
pinpoint
or dangerous cross cavalier
it's them again unfortunately for
portugal they really only got going in
the second half when they were
really backs against the wall adrian
silva shot the deflection for a corner
pepe has done it
well there's the answer they were
looking for
but they really didn't do themselves
justice and i think
your guy were deserved winners at the
end two brilliant goals you have to say
hernandez four on three for a moment
here cavalli
brilliant that is pure gold
for the fourth time in his career
cristiano ronaldo
is knocked out of the world cup it's all
over
and maybe it is the end in terms of
world cups
for the great cristiano ronaldo in that
world cup
he showed one last time if it is the
last time that he is such a prolific
goalscorer that is legendary i think
2018 in a way sums up renaldo's
international career which is
exceptionally talented a play for the
big occasion
but just part of a team that bar france
in 2016 has never been good enough to to
win one of the major honours we don't
know if that will be his last world cup
i don't think it will be i think there's
a very good chance that we could see him
at kazar 2022 he'll be 37 years old by
the time that world cup rolls around
ronaldo will not be portugal's sole
attacking threat so you could argue that
the stage was perfectly set for him
to really thrive in this world cup as
part of an exciting attacking team as
the
the elder statesman and perhaps put
those former world cups where he didn't
perhaps do himself justice you know put
that to rights
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