Brenning: Does anyone care about Ronaldo anymore?
Cristiano Ronaldo takes honor and glory from the club that will make it the best in history and here I sit with a strange feeling.
I dont care.
Nobody cares anymore?
Almost 20 years ago, almost everything was Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese who has always seemed so selfish that it’s possible to ask why his insane chase for the championship is mostly about wanting to reflect himself in trophies.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved it and it works that way.
Because it made him the perfect contrast to Leo Messi in the great football rivalry of our time. The bad and the good, when in the media we have to generalize and simplify.
Messi as a God-given talent who never seemed to be able to make a mistake (until he became too rich to pay taxes) and Ronaldo as the selfish machine who still made her way to the same place in the football throne by sheer will.
The man who never accepted rejection.
It was a simplified world view, but it also helped them.
He had the chance to give up Messi
Because with the competition grew not only their achievements on the field but also their fascination with it. But the years go by no matter how much talent you have in your left foot or your desire to play sports inside your frontal bone.
As their target production ended and their status declined, another issue became very relevant. How will all this end?
Both Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo rightly claim the title of greatest player in the history of football. But to really get over it, my feeling has always been that they need to make sure they create a perfect ending too.
After all, the most important thing in the story is the ending.
Leo Messi should have run his career at FC Barcelona, lead the club through its financial crisis and, before he ditched his boots, lifted him to the top of the world.
But personal prestige and money came first.
When Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Manchester United this year, I felt he stole the finish that Messi would have achieved. Because now he’s had the opportunity to do all that, lift a struggling Manchester United and emerge as a player, at 37 he can still make the difference on his own.
God knows, the one-eyed British football public has also been waiting for a Premier League player to be called the greatest in history. Had Ronaldo succeeded, he would have had an entire Troll army on his side.
But now, instead, he’s sitting in white pants as tightly stuffed as the sofa beneath him, tearing down a potential Manchester United statue in real time.
One of his worst misjudgments
It’s sad to see parts of the interview with Piers Morgan have come out. “Journalist” Morgan who has spent the past few years fighting every battle for Ronaldo on social media in search of this very interview.
Britten wrote when he launched the meeting that it would “shake the football world”. I also feel that the two men were completely convinced that this is exactly what they were going to achieve when they sat down together.
Like a revealing interview with Gandhi or Mandela. They were convinced that the world of football is still on Ronaldo’s side.
It has to be one of Ronaldo’s worst misjudgments.
Because here it is not the brave leader of the opposition who is inciting his followers to overthrow the power. Instead, he appears as a dictator who has lost his last touch to reality because he is now turning many of his old supporters against him.
The interview turns out to be nothing more than two pretenders who, hoping to make each other important again, instead rob each other of the last sympathy and honor they have left.
At the time of writing, Piers Morgan has sent an estimated 425 posts about the interview on Twitter. What he chooses to prove at the top is when laughing Ronaldo praises him for how handsome he is.
Two wounded vanity. Fortunately they at least have each other.
Where is Ronaldo heading now? Which club can offer him the perfect ending?
The best he could probably do would be center back during the World Cup and then leave the football scene for good.
Unfortunately.