Cristiano Ronaldo

Erik ten Hag won two trophies at Manchester United and was still sacked in his third season. His account of an Ibiza agreement, a sold midfielder and a striker he did not get explains why he believes the…

Portugal reached the Nations League last eight with a 2-1 win over Norway, and the cost of the night for Norway may stretch beyond the table. Read on to see why Portugal's win looked more settled than its…

Craig Bellamy's Wales pushed Portugal to the final whistle in Lisbon, yet their manager refused to treat a single-goal defeat as cause for celebration. This article explains why Bellamy views a battling…

Cristiano Ronaldo's World Cup career is over after Portugal lost 1-0 to Spain in the last 16. Roberto Martinez resigned immediately after the final whistle.

A round-of-32 tie that had everything, and then found more. This covers Portugal's 2-1 win over Croatia in Toronto: Ivan Perisic's opener, the penalty that gave Cristiano Ronaldo his first World Cup knockout…

A goalless draw does not sound like much until you watch one with 37 shots in it. Colombia and Portugal could not separate themselves in Miami, but the night still decided who topped Group K, who finished…

Cristiano Ronaldo went into this game under more scrutiny than at any World Cup of his career, and came out of it holding another record nobody else can claim. This piece covers his double in a 5-0 win over…

Portugal's World Cup campaign began with a result they will want to move past quickly. This piece examines what went wrong for Roberto Martinez's side in Houston, why Cristiano Ronaldo's finishing failures…

This piece examines one of sport's most enduring rivalries not through the usual GOAT lens, but through the shared origins, parallel ambitions and mutual pressure that made both players greater than they might…

This piece looks beyond the headline number to examine what Ronaldo's sixth World Cup selection actually means for Portugal as a squad, for coach Roberto Martinez's tactical project, and for the sport's…