Davidzhu

When you were young, someone carried you, and you delivered impressive stats; now that you're old, the entire Portuguese team can't carry you, and after the game, you're still the absolute protagonist in marketing. Your teammates did all the dirty and tiring work, and you reaped all the benefits. This phenomenon makes people wonder if your fans are collectively attacking the coach and teammates for not passing the ball to you. The world's top midfielder and one of the top three wingers in the tournament, can't you do anything but play safe passes and cross the ball? Is Martinez really unable to use B-Fee, or is it because you don't move on the front line, and when you do, you're offside, making it impossible for your teammates to pass to you? All these questions point to one fact: you've become a burden to the team. A team that could have had multiple stars, sacrificed all possibilities to preserve your stats and commercial value, playing a business-like football to accommodate you. Your fans keep marketing that you're already 41 years old, but that's never an excuse to drag down your teammates. B-Fee will be 35 years old in the next World Cup; how many more can he play? Figo never scored a World Cup goal in his lifetime, and in 2006, he could have scored Portugal's first World Cup goal but let a young you take the penalty. He said: Portugal's future is in your hands, not mine. Now, you're clinging to your position, dragging generation after generation of Portuguese people into the abyss. After the game, you still have the nerve to market yourself as 'having a clear conscience,' leaving your teammates and coach to bear the brunt of the fans' anger. Later generations will lament this but fail to learn from it, and it will make later generations lament again.