Celebrations in Morocco after the team's promotion to the semi-finals of the World Cup (Yuni Cantro)
Cristiano Ronaldo was unable to save the Portugal team from elimination in the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup this evening (Saturday) and left the field in tears.
The big star entered in the 51st minute, when his team was behind 1:0 against the surprising Morocco, but all the pressure was of no use and his World Cup dream came to an end on the night he equaled the all-time performance record.
At the age of 37, after becoming a bench player during the tournament and for the first time in his career without a team, this was probably his last major tournament.
The end of an era, culminating in winning Euro 2016.
Ronaldo's tears
The responses
The brakeman
Ruben Dias
admitted: "We tried everything and nothing worked, we didn't get the required goal. At this moment it is important to remember that despite the relegation, this is a young generation that has gained experience. We have a lot of qualities and the belief that we can do it in the future, nothing is lost." .
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Cristiano Ronaldo (Photo: GettyImages, Alexander Hassenstein)
the numbers
* Ronaldo played his 196th game in the Portugal uniform and equaled the world record of the Kuwaiti Badr Al-Mutawa, as a player with the most international appearances in the history of the game.
As you remember, Ronaldo is already the world goalscorer with 118.
* Ronaldo failed to score in all eight of his knockout games in the World Cups (including the match for third place in 2006).
He had 27 threats in 570 minutes, but couldn't find the back of the net.
* Portugal has not come back from a halftime deficit in a World Cup match since July 23, 1966, when Eusebio led a turnaround from a 3:2 deficit to a 3:5 victory over North Korea in the quarterfinals.
* Portugal made three mistakes in this tournament that led directly to goals - more than any other team.
* This is the eighth time that Portugal participated in the World Cup and the first time that they were eliminated in the quarterfinals.
In the two previous cases at this stage, 1966 in England and 2006 in Germany, she reached the semi-finals.
* Morocco, which was the first ever representative of the Arab world in the quarter-finals, made history as the first African team in the semi-finals of the World Cup.
Before her there were three representatives who were eliminated in the quarter-finals: Cameroon in 1990, Senegal in 2002 and Ghana in 2010.
* Youssef An-Nasri became Morocco's top goalscorer in the World Cup with his third goal.
He was the first to score for the Atlas Lions in two different World Cups.
* The striker also made history for Sevilla, being the first ever representative of the Andalusian team to score from the quarter-final stage onwards in the World Cup.
* Yassin Bono, in his 50th appearance for the national team, became the first goalkeeper from Africa to keep a clean sheet in three games in one World Cup tournament.
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