World Cup 2026: ‘Ronaldo’s legacy will be spoiled’ – Vieira sends message to Portugal coach

Former France international, Patrick Vieira, has said that the bequest of Portugal captain, Cristiano Ronaldo volition beryllium spoiled a small spot aft helium precocious failed to people a extremity successful his team’s 1-1 gully with DR Congo successful the FIFA World Cup.

Vieira said this connected The Rest Is Football podcast portion calling connected Portugal manager Roberto Martinez to seat Ronaldo successful their adjacent World Cup clash against Uzbekistan adjacent week.

The Arsenal fable wants Martinez to deliberation astir the Portugal squad archetypal and not the Al-Nassr forward.

“He [Martinez] has to deliberation astir the squad archetypal earlier reasoning astir Ronaldo. So helium volition person to marque a truly beardown determination not to commencement him if the squad is amended without him,” Vieira said

“I interest for him [Ronaldo], his bequest volition beryllium spoiled a small spot if helium kicks disconnected and helium gets taken off, due to the fact that for 2 decades helium has been an extraordinarily fantastic footballer.”

World Cup 2026: ‘Ronaldo’s bequest volition beryllium spoiled’ – Vieira sends connection to Portugal coach