The global perception of Portugal’s national men’s team for well over a decade has been Cristiano Ronaldo plus 10 others. It seems inevitable that Qatar 2022 will be filed in the annals of Portuguese football only under ‘Ronaldo’s last World Cup’.
That is unless manager Fernando Santos can finally do something which has as yet eluded him, and turn an incredible generation of individual talents into a functioning cohesive unit. The perfect World Cup send-off for CR7 depends on those around him.
Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes, Rafael Leao, Joao Felix and Diogo Jota are all
