Rafa Honigstein

He said, I will not bring off the best goal scorer in the history of Portugal.

You can look at it that way.

And he can still score a couple of goals, I think.

But we knew that was going to be one of the big talking points of this tournament before, because it already was a big talking point four years ago.

And I'm always kind of almost sort of rubbing my eyes in disbelief, thinking that four years down the line, we still have the same issue with Portugal.

And it's a shame because it's such an amazing team that really has, maybe unlike any Portugal side in living memory, at least in modern times, has a fantastic opportunity winning the tournament.

Yeah, but I think the difference is, I mean, with children and their parents, the children sort of...

Most children, I would say, love to help their parents out and they understand that roles have now reversed.

But in professional football, it's not like that.

I mean, you have a guy who'll say, you know, I could be playing a lot better here.

And I don't get the sense, you know, that unlike with Argentina and Messi, that the whole team is playing for Messi.

You don't get it with Portugal, whether that is a tactical thing or sort of the mindset.

I just don't have the same, you know, we're all trying to help Ronaldo because he will help us win this World Cup.

You just don't get it at the moment.

detail and i just always when the hosts are doing well it gives the tournament a lift yes and again that is i think um something that is makes a huge difference because obviously mexico huge football city us slightly less so canada yes but doesn't perhaps have the you know the success history of success at these competitions i think it was canada's first world cup win if i'm not mistaken

So that is, I think, really the icing on the cake in terms of the atmosphere.

You need that, you want that.

It wasn't really like that in Qatar.

It was a little bit like that in Russia, but not to the same extent because it's not really a football country the way we like to think of it.

So you have to go back to 2014 in Brazil to come to a kind of a similar engaged local population.