(That headline wasn’t intended to be a pun. But it’s too late now. So I’m sticking with it.)
The underperforming star player we all talked about pre-World Cup 2010 was Leo Messi, and how he didn’t perform for Argentina as he did for Barcelona. The fact that Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo hadn’t scored for Portugal since February 2009 (and even that was a penalty kick against Finland in a friendly) and didn’t score at all during World Cup qualifying was somewhat overlooked.
Before the World Cup Ronaldo had said that “The goals will come. They’ll come naturally. It’s like a great player once told me: goals are like ketchup … you keep on forcing it, then it comes all at once.”
The first splodge of that metaphorical ketchup was finally squeezed out today, when Ronaldo scored the sixth goal in Portugal’s 7-0 win over North Korea.
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