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Portugal have many young talented player but they not brave give them chance get regular position and prefer keep hold on with Cristiano Ronaldo
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That is definitely not true. You are claiming that Ronaldo is the reason why these players are not getting chances. It is the other way around. During Qatar 2022, the Portuguese coach (Fernando Santos) humiliated Ronaldo by not including him in the starting XI. The younger players performed well during the first match (against Switzerland, which they won by a massive margin of 6-1). But the tactic failed against Morocco during the Quarter-finals, and they lost the match 1-0. The younger players first need to perform consistently, before they talk about replacing Ronaldo.

That's true but you may not believe it, since there are many old players like Ronaldo playing for their national team there is less chance for younger players to have a chance. However, currently, Ronaldo can't show any good performance, and even yesterday in his Abarian team the fans were unhappy, the reason why we usually talk about Ronaldo and other old players is just because of their reputation they have not their performance anymore.

Obviously experience comes with age how can you expect younger players to come at level of Ronaldo, he is the king and he'll ever be because of his experience age and game .
No one can replace him for a long time in football world but yes many good footballers came into light during fifa world cup and In next world cup they'll be polished more and they'll show more good performances.

I wouldn't really use such big words like mentioning the fact that no one can replace Ronaldo. We thought the same about some other football greats in the past like Eusebio, Di Stefano, Puckas, Pele, Maradona, Ronaldinho, Brazil's Ronaldo and nowadays Ronaldo and Messi.
Every football era has its football greats and can we really say that Ronaldo was a better football player than Eusebio, Pela or Maradona?
I don't think we need to worry about football, in every age new football greats appear and the old ones fall into oblivion.

Well said. What comes to my mind here is the Spanish national team from 2008, 2010 and 2012. They won the European Championship twice and the World Cup once. They didn't have a Ronaldo, or a Messi, or a Maradona, or a Zidane... But isn't necessary to have these out of this world stars to win something big. If the whole team functions very well and the different parts fit together perfectly, you can have lots of success. For Portugal it isn't about replacing Ronaldo and actually I think they have more or less replaced him already. He will still score his goals when he plays, that is no surprise. But teams can play outstanding soccer.

I agree that these huge players like Messi are often more fun to watch and they have these amazing moments and dribblings and I will definitely miss that from Messi. But even Argentina will have their chances once Messi isn't playing anymore.

I would agree with one other thing though. If we take a player at his absolute best, outstanding maximum two or three years, I think that a player like Messi is irreplaceable. But I also think that that counts for a couple of other players as well which don't immediately come to mind.