The Portugal national team lost in a crushing way their first game without Ronaldo.
Portugal lost the home game in the Nations League to Denmark with a score of 1:4, conceding four goals and scoring only one.
It was the Portuguese's first game without Cristiano Ronaldo, who announced his retirement from the national team at the beginning of November. This happened against the background of his conflict with coach Jorge Jesus, who did not let the 41-year-old Ronaldo take the field even as a substitute in the previous game with Norway in the Nations League at the end of September.
Before the match with Denmark, the Portugal team took to the field wearing the same number 7 for all players - which belonged to Ronaldo for many years. Now Carlos Forbes got this number, but the spelling of the number is different: a short horizontal line has been added to it in the middle. "Because the [former] oath will be eternal," the team at X explained the decision.
Ronaldo played a record 234 games for Portugal and scored 146 goals.
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