He blew out his cheeks when first approaching the dressing room and it was the same gesture when he reached the top of the tunnel and stepped out, aching for a final contribution to football history.
‘He is anxious as he is representing Portugal in the national team,’ Bruno Fernandes had said of Cristiano Ronaldo, the night before. And that was before Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick. Messi featured in high-spec adverts for the tournament’s official beer on the stadium concourse screens. Ronaldo featured in adverts for plastic models of himself.
But while the 38-year-old Argentinian was the talk of America, coast
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