Ronaldo: ‘I’ll like to start’ – Ramos sends message to Portugal boss, Martinez

Portugal forward, Goncalo Ramos, who is expected to service arsenic the backup to skipper Cristiano Ronaldo astatine the 2026 FIFA World Cup, has candidly reflected connected his presumption successful the team.

During the 2025-26 play astatine Paris Saint-Germain, helium made 45 appearances, with lone 15 of those being successful the starting lineup. He scored 12 goals and provided 2 assists, averaging a extremity publication each 142 minutes, which is astir 1 and a fractional matches.

At the planetary level, Ramos has chiefly travel disconnected the bench, arsenic the centre-forward relation is held by Ronaldo. He has accumulated 10 goals and 3 assists successful 25 appearances for Portugal, with lone 10 of those being starts.

In the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo netted conscionable 1 extremity during the radical stage, converting a punishment successful a 3-2 triumph implicit Ghana. In the Round of 16 lucifer against Switzerland, Ramos, who had played lone 10 minutes successful the radical stage, took the spot of the 41-year-old successful the starting line-up and made history.

He scored a hat-trick and provided an assistance successful a ascendant 6-1 win, marking his emergence connected the planetary scene. However, successful caller times, helium ha...