not recently but throughout his international career. When ronaldo started playing for Portugal as an 18 year old he had the likes of rui costa, figo and few other players as pauleta, simao and couto.
Ronaldo international soon coming to an end, Portugal have good group of young players dias, fernandes, carvalho, silva, guedes, cancelo, jota, felix, mario and neves
do you you think if ronaldo was at his peak now he would have had a better chance winning the world cup with this Portugal team?
Messi on the other hand has been lucky with national team. Messi had higuan, dybala, aguero, di maria, mascherano, otamendi, garay, zabaleta, banega and lavezzi all these players at their peak.
Ronaldo unlucky with Portugal
posted on 10/6/19
Ronaldo will probably reach 100 international goals...that is just absolutely crazy
posted on 10/6/19
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Shugs (U14253)
posted 5 minutes ago
Strange comparison
Ronaldo has been excellent for Portugal and won the euros
Messi has been crap for Argentina and won nothing
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Ronaldo did no more to get his country into the Euros final (where he got injured early on) than Messi did get his country to a World Cup final.
It's such a distortion of facts to say Ronaldo won Portugal the Euros. He was crap until the third game, and Portugal were lucky they even went through to the KO round.
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I didn't say he won it for them... I said he won them which he did as he has a winners medal
If you want to distort things tho....
posted on 10/6/19
comment by Adam 'The interview' Lallana (U20650)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by Shugs (U14253)
posted 6 minutes ago
Strange comparison
Ronaldo has been excellent for Portugal and won the euros
Messi has been crap for Argentina and won nothing
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he didnt perform brilliantly for quite a few of them euros games, he did get crucial goals at the end so fair enough, but prior to them he wasnt carrying the rest of the team alone
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Nobody said he did
posted on 10/6/19
Aaaahh. Got it.
Not that it's worth much but Messi was a Higuain shot away from winning the WC.
And an Aguero chance away from winning the Copa I think as well.
posted on 10/6/19
comment by Shugs (U14253)
posted 11 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Shugs (U14253)
posted 5 minutes ago
Strange comparison
Ronaldo has been excellent for Portugal and won the euros
Messi has been crap for Argentina and won nothing
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Ronaldo did no more to get his country into the Euros final (where he got injured early on) than Messi did get his country to a World Cup final.
It's such a distortion of facts to say Ronaldo won Portugal the Euros. He was crap until the third game, and Portugal were lucky they even went through to the KO round.
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I didn't say he won it for them... I said he won them which he did as he has a winners medal
If you want to distort things tho....
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Ok then.
I think we can therefore declare that Ronaldo is the lucky one that he won something with his country, and Messi didn't, despite playing just as well as Ronaldo in tournaments before.
posted on 10/6/19
I think the point is, would Ronaldo have hada better chance of major international trophies had he been at his peak with Figo et al or with Bernardo et al. I think he would have
posted on 10/6/19
comment by Mumbai Martial - Mountains are there to be climbed (U3867)
posted 32 seconds ago
I think the point is, would Ronaldo have hada better chance of major international trophies had he been at his peak with Figo et al or with Bernardo et al. I think he would have
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He won a major trophy though
Figo etc needed a Ronaldo more than he needed them
posted on 10/6/19
compare the players both messi and ronaldo had their side shows messi was lucky to have more than enough players to win international trophy.
ronaldo on the other hand had to rely on 2 veteran cb, average defenders and average midfield, not forgetting no decent back up striker
posted on 10/6/19
considering ronaldo has won 2 international trophies at his peak with the current team experience and young players portugal could easily have easily been one of the favorites for 2022 WC
posted on 10/6/19
ronaldos had it easier than messi for sure. Messi has had disfunctional coaches, a disfunctional fa, ridiculous team line ups, attack heavy teams.
Ronaldo has had a great supporting team who know there roles and tactics built around him. His team even won the final in which he missed most the game.