Daring! Portugal's European Championship list caused controversy, Ronaldo was ironically shortlisted by his relationship, and the coach was difficult to solve

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2024-05-25 14:07Posted in Guangdong sports creators

This year's summer is destined to make many football fans look forward to it, the two major football events European Cup and Copa America can fill the gap of the five major leagues to a certain extent. Interestingly, this shows a few happy and a few sad phenomena, some countries' lists show happy troubles, and some national teams have not yet participated in the domestic public opinion wail, the Portuguese national team obviously belongs to the latter situation, recently Portugal coach Martinez was frantically tortured by Portuguese reporters at the press conference, many sharp questions about the Portuguese national team squad couldn't help but make him sweat, obviously this squad made them extremely dissatisfied.

There are too many familiar names in the 26-man squad, and the selected ones have been regulars in the Portuguese national team for the most part. Cristiano Ronaldo became the first member of the national team to play 6 European Championships in the history of the national team at the age of 39, followed by the 41-year-old Pepe, who participated in 5 European Championships, and most of the rest of the players are from the five major leagues. The total value of the list is as high as 1.04 billion euros, second only to the European Cup favorites England and France, but it is such a list that has Martinez deeply questioned, starting with three players from the Saudi league.

The Portuguese reporter who was present questioned Martinez about the selection of three Saudi league players, and one reporter asked: "Why are there three players from the Saudi league in this squad, aren't you worried that they are playing more and more mixed in the Middle East league, for example, do you think Riyadh Crescent's Ruben Neves is stronger than Manchester City's Nunez?" "What does it mean that Portugal are in the top three of the European Championship given the overall squad of the team? ”

I believe everyone knows when you see this question, and this reporter's question hides several knives, which is extremely aggressive. This problem also reflects that despite the huge investment, the Saudi league is not very well evaluated in the mainstream media, and the performance of stars such as Benzema, Neymar, and Firmino introduced last summer is not satisfactory, some have been two coaches in a row, some have been reimbursed early in the season, and some have fled in the middle of the season.

It is worth mentioning that Manchester City's Nunes was not selected for the squad, and the comparison between Ruben Neves and Nunes is a question of the level of the Saudi league, and the subtext of the reporter is that even if Nunes is a substitute in Manchester City, he is stronger than Ruben Neves who went to Saudi Arabia, because he is in a higher level league. Martinez was clearly aware of what was being said in the reporter's question, to which he replied that for me, the level of the league is not a problem, but more about playing time, appearances, individual performance and role in the national team. The remarks point to the reason why Nunes was not selected, his number of appearances and personal data are not as good as those in Saudi Arabia's Neves, and more importantly, it reflects an attitude that seems to put competition first and protects the player's self-esteem, although we all know that this is just to avoid falling into the trap of public opinion that journalists have dug up for the league's discrimination.

But are reporters really just struggling because Nunes wasn't selected? It's not that simple, we all know that, with the exception of a handful of superstars, it is very difficult for ordinary stars to get a call-up to the national team as long as they go to play in the lower leagues. Otavio and Ruben Neves, stars of the playing years, who went to play in the Saudi league to play in the country, faced public opinion doubts, and their selection itself did not meet the expectations of Portuguese fans and journalists, and the reason why Martinez made them selected is also to make Ronaldo a not so special existence in the team, at least to make the outside world look like Ronaldo is not a special one. Ruben Neves and Ottavio have played an average of 30 minutes per game for the national team, and it's clear that they are not the players they have to choose.

So at the end of the press conference, another reporter asked a very sharp question: For eight years, the former coach of Portugal Santos has been using the relationship between me and Ronaldo as father and son to describe this cooperation, may I ask Robert Martinez, are you and Ronaldo now also a stepfather and stepson? The relationship between Santos and Ronaldo is actually right, because Santos has repeatedly said in interviews that he treats Ronaldo as his son, and the 8-year cooperative relationship does show that Santos has a deep affection for Ronaldo, otherwise he would not give Ronaldo the opportunity to participate in the Qatar World Cup in that state. But why does the reporter say that Martinez and Ronaldo are also like father and son, I believe that anyone can hear from this passage that the reporter's question is ill-intentioned, and even malicious to satirize Martinez's nepotism. The vernacular is, you recruited Ronaldo, are you also Ronaldo's father?

You can't see this question on many platforms, at present, I only see a relatively complete report on Tiger Pounce, in the last question of the press conference, the reporter is tantamount to a poor dagger, and the showdown expresses dissatisfaction, which is a fundamental question about the significance of Ronaldo in the national team. In fact, the torture of Martinez is not limited to these, there is also a question in front of him that points to whether Ronaldo should get a start, the reporter asked, some players have been in the national team for many years, we have a lot of new faces now, do you call them up when you call them up, or do you treat them as a substitute like in 2016. The question I want to ask is whether this Portugal team will continue to rely on veterans like Cristiano Ronaldo or on the younger generation. Martinez was clearly frustrated, and his answer was that no decision had been made yet.

In addition to such sharp questions, it also includes why little Conceição was selected and whether it was because of his father's relationship; Why the hell don't you choose a Sporting player, are you worthy of a Sporting player? The barrage of questions was a question of whether Martinez was cronyism and an expression of serious dissatisfaction with the list. Of course, I believe that Martinez has his own considerations for Ronaldo to be selected, on the one hand, he wants to rely on Ronaldo to continue to stabilize the locker room, after all, no one in the Portuguese team is convinced, Cancelo and Felix are typical anti-bones, on the other hand, Martinez also needs a backstabber, Portugal now has a far more opinion on Ronaldo than on Martinez, if Ronaldo is not a part of the team, then all public opinion will point to the coach himself, you must know that Martinez is not the coach expected by the Portuguese from the beginning.

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