“Christian Ronaldo is on his way to the elephant cemetery”

A ‘new’ on the question of Cristiano Ronaldo abandoning (or not) the national selection of Portugal continues to speak in recent days. This time, on game day between the team of quinas and Norway, another reaction to the theme arises since... France.

Bixente Lizarazu, former Gaul international, who won a European and World Championship by the French national team and was a Bordeaux legend during the 1990s, made statements to the Téléfoot l’After program, quoted by the portal sports. fr, where he believes that “it will be a mistake” to maintain this controversy.

“If (this saga) continues, it will be a big mistake by the three parties involved: the Federation, Jorge Jesus and Cristiano Ronaldo. It is impossible, with a player like him and what he represents for Portugal, for this to end. It is a disaster for his image,” he started by saying the left-wing defense of clubs such as Bayern Munich or Marseille.

“What’s hard when you’re an aging player, and especially when you’re Cristiano Ronaldo and you’ve built an image of indestructibility, is not accepting to be less strong, less fast and, unfortunately, life is like this,” he continued.

In the matter involving the minutes of use of the Portuguese captain to the alleged promises that were made before the duels to Norway (in Oslo) and Denmark, Lizarazu admits that it is difficult to maintain trust after the parties have failed to agree.

“If there was a conversation between him, the coach and the Federation to make sure everything went well and to tell him: ‘You're important to me, but you'll only play one part, I'll make sure you recover in this game.’ The player needs to be involved and know exactly what is expected of him. If, on the other hand, they tell him that he will play and he does not have time to play, his confidence is lost,” Bayern Munich’s Director of Institutional Relations shot between 2021/22 and 2022/23.

“ It was because of his ‘I’ that he became Cristiano Ronaldo, because his ego led him to work like a madman to beat all records. Only you get to a point where that becomes your worst enemy. It was his strength, but now he is his worst enemy because he is as old as he is and is on his way to the cemetery of elephants, I can assure you that”, completed.

Remember that Cristiano Ronaldo abandoned the internship of the Portuguese national team 11 minutes after Jorge Jesus' press conference in advance to Denmark-Portugal, after a conversation with the president of the Portuguese Football Federation Pedro Proença, calling his private jet to take him to the Spanish city of Madrid that same night.