Ronaldo Downplays His World Cup Defeat

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
A story came out, I think, was from Kalshi. And Kalshi said, Ticket prices of the World Cup have dropped 60% That's crazy. Since US and Portugal is out. And we saw how US lost, Belgium. Unbelievable. It was incredible to watch, it was humiliating. And by the way, Polisik is getting trashed right now by a bunch of different people, and Landon Donovan came out and said, this is what's gonna happen, all this other stuff. But there was a big camp around the world that wanted to see Portugal and Ronaldo win its first World Cup. And they lost. They lost. When they lost, there was an interview that was on afterwards. I don't know if you have the clip of the interview. There was an interview that was on afterwards with Ronaldo. And a lot of people in the marketplace are talking about this, saying, look, this is why he is not messy. This is what the market is saying, where he said, I want you to see this. And look, to the people that are Ronaldo fans, I know we're gonna get it. And I want to hear it. I want you to give your thoughts on this, but is this how a champion speaks? Maybe you like this kind of conversation. Go ahead, play the clip.
I've won three titles for Portugal. Before Cristiano, Portugal did not win a single title.
The best title I have won with Portugal is the Euro 2016 Honestly, for me, Euro 2016 is like winning the World Cup.
Again, I lead with clear conscience and give it my best. Tomorrow will be a new day, then life will go on. How do you feel about that answer right there to say before Cristiano, meaning before Cristiano, he's talking to himself as a, before Cristiano and then saying that 2016 Euro is the same exact thing as winning the World Cup?

**SPEAKER_2** (1:47)
Listen, talented, awesome, family, father, all around amazing, amazing. He's a net positive to the sport, to society, for his country, but that attitude after you don't make it, it's kind of like, hey, I'm good, I'm really nasty. Portugal wouldn't have nothing without me. And by the way, I already won something that to me is just as important, if not better, than the World Cup. Bro, have some humility.
You know what Higuita basically said? Hey, it wasn't in my cards, but you know what? I've had a great career, I represent my country, I love my country, good luck to everybody else. That's simple, not me, me, me, and I've already done this, this, this. And that's why, with all due respect to all the people out there, they're gonna get pissed off. There's Messi and then there's Ronaldo. There's no question, it's not even in the same conversation, and I'm sorry to put it to you. You think Messi would ever say some crazy stuff like that, if he was in his position? Honestly, if he was in his position, would he ever say, hey, Argentina would be nothing without Messi and Messi, Messi, Messi?
Come on, that's not a good look.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:50)
I don't know about that, but to me, like, would Messi would say that? A lot of people would say Messi would never say that, right? These are true Messi fans would never say that. But to say it was the same thing, like, it's the same thing as the... Tom, how do you process this?
I want to share some numbers here with you guys.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:04)
Well, to say, without me, they wouldn't have got anything, that's pure ego, that's not team, that's ego.
And then to say, well, you know, Euro 2016 is the same as the World Cup. What? I mean, no one thinks that, no one agrees with that. There's not one person anywhere. That's just denial. And between ego and denial, Sports Illustrated said that the statement was painfully on brand, meaning this is what a lot of people...

**SPEAKER_1** (3:31)
Who said that? Sports Illustrated?...

**SPEAKER_3** (3:32)
said it was painfully on brand.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:34)
Meaning no one's surprised that he said this because he was known as...

**SPEAKER_3** (3:39)
This is him walking off at the last World Cup, chasing the money when other players wouldn't chase the money in Saudi Arabia. There's a saying, hey, this is on brand. This is he go in denial.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:50)
Yeah. The way I look at it is, I went back and looked at the 2016 Euro that he won. When he says he believes it's the same as the World Cup. You know who he didn't face?
Where was Neymar in 2016? How good was Neymar in 2016?
2016? He's up there. Neymar was 10 times better than today. 2016 Neymar was Neymar.