Confederations Cup

The argument is he isn't a leader because he was due to take the 5th penalty in a confederations cup semi final?

Edited by Roberto Baggio - 29 Jun 2017 at 9:37am

Ronaldo is a leader. He carries teams on his own at times. He has basically every quality you could look for in a footballer. Listen to interviews with former teammates and you can see how much he is liked and respected.

horsebox wrote: Roberto Baggio wrote: The argument is he isn't a leader because he was due to take the 5th penalty in a confederations cup semi final? How many real leaders are left in the game these days. I assume you are talking about those of the Roy Keane, Bobby Moore ilk?   I think scoring in almost every quarter, semi and final would do me in the leadership front if I was a fan of any of his teams.     Ronaldo is not a leader. Everything is about him and his ego, nothing else matters. Spends a lot of the time sulking and throwing strops on pitch even when his own team scores. No disputing his qualities as a player.

To describe him in 3 words would be as follows .

horsebox wrote: Roberto Baggio wrote: The argument is he isn't a leader because he was due to take the 5th penalty in a confederations cup semi final? How many real leaders are left in the game these days. I assume you are talking about those of the Roy Keane, Bobby Moore ilk?   I think scoring in almost every quarter, semi and final would do me in the leadership front if I was a fan of any of his teams.     Ronaldo is not a leader. Everything is about him and his ego, nothing else matters. Spends a lot of the time sulking and throwing strops on pitch even when his own team scores. No disputing his qualities as a player.

I think he showed decent leadership for the Poland game he encouraged Moutinho to take a penalty when he was hiding away.

Think people are reading far too much into a penalty shoot out in a friendly competition.

mike74 wrote: Have any of you ever taken a penalty? There is far more pressure on the later pens than the first ones ffs.. teams often go on and win shoot outs after missing the first penalty.. they never win after missing the last one.. any teams I've ever been involved with the striker nearly always wants the last one.. the lads who aren't as sure go earleir...

Edited by Gary McKay - 29 Jun 2017 at 12:03pm

Cant believe ppl defend that decision last night.

Portugal lost a shootout with 3 poors pens and they had Christiano f**king Ronaldo in the huddle on the halfway line who didnt even take one. What a waste.

Dont know why the manager indulged his ego.

He hangs on for the 5th pen knowing that it offers him a chance of hogging the limelight.
Sometimes that backfires.

At 2-0 down the manager should have insisted he go next.

It really is inexcusable that he didnt take a penalty, there is no argument there.

Gary McKay wrote: mike74 wrote: Have any of you ever taken a penalty? There is far more pressure on the later pens than the first ones ffs.. teams often go on and win shoot outs after missing the first penalty.. they never win after missing the last one.. any teams I've ever been involved with the striker nearly always wants the last one.. the lads who aren't as sure go earleir... I was the opposite, I always wanted my best taker to go first (see Sheedy, Lineker, Baggio, Ronaldo, Zidane, Shearer, Brehme, Stojkovic, Hagi etc).   You will always get the chance to take the first peno but you may never get the chance to take the fifth, as happened with CRonaldo twice now.