His teammates mourn on the field, sportively shake hands with the Moroccan football players, but Cristiano Ronaldo does not know how quickly he has to leave the field. A supervisor from the selection walks with him, while the star of Portugal wipes away his tears on the way to the dressing room, the other man tries to comfort him.
Ronaldo knows that he will never win one prize again: the world title, which was still missing from his impressive trophy cabinet. It is precisely at the stage when the whole nation is counting on him that he fails. In the eight knockout games he played in five different World Cups, Ronaldo did not score.
The superstar will turn 38 in February. Whether he will be there in the summer of 2026 during the World Cup in America, Mexico and Canada seems unlikely. And whether the attacker has played his very last match for Portugal is now the question. He has played 196 international matches so far, as many as Bader Al Matawa from Kuwait. He is also still active.