Among Cristiano Ronaldo’s many awards is his leadership.
Let’s go back to 2016, Portugal faced France in the final of the Euro.
Ronaldo got rid of him after only 25 minutes of injury, but when doctors took him out, he went back to the bank and spent the rest of the game giving recommendations and encouragement to his teammates.
The hero of this final, Eder, later that Ronaldo had told him that he would score the winning goal.
“It gave me that strength, that power and it’s vital,” Eder told the FIFA website.
And it is his leadership that solves the debate of Ronaldo Lionel Messi in the eyes of Juventus legend Antonio Cabrini.
“My non-public opinion is that Ronaldo is bigger than Messi, but basically in terms of leadership,” Cabrini said in 2019, through Goal.
“Ronaldo has proven to be a true leader many times and alone in the field.He is a leader in both his life and sport.
We are talking about Ronaldo at Euro 2016 as proof of his supervision.A new video on Twitter does an even greater task of appearing.
The video, posted on Twitter via Jay_RMA, features 3 excerpts of Ronaldo’s fortune at Real Madrid, where he was amazing to teammate Karim Benzema.
In the first clip, Ronaldo told Real enthusiasts to avoid booing Benzema after not having a smart chance to score: a 5-2 win over real society in 2018.
The five-time Golden Ball winner realized that he was telling the Bernabéu crowd to applaud Benzema’s help when the Whites faced Alavés.
In the same match, the Portuguese star gave up the chance to score a hat trick after Gareth Bale, the victim of a foul in the area, ceded the ball to Benzema.
The video has more than 30,000 retweets at the time of writing.
Ronaldo has been criticized for his egocentrism and refusal to make sacrifices.
But the video shows that this can be something extra from the truth.