World Cup 2026: ‘We must keep him’ – Spain goalkeeper warns of dangerous Ronaldo

Spain goalkeeper, Unai Simon, has said that Portugal captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, is inactive unsafe wrong the punishment area, contempt his advancing age.

This is arsenic the 2 European giants hole for their Round of 16 brushwood on Monday (July 6) astatine Dallas Stadium, Arlington.

At 41 years, Ronaldo is the oldest skipper participating successful this summer’s tourney successful North America and has netted 3 goals successful 4 matches, with his archetypal extremity making him the archetypal subordinate to people successful six antithetic World Cups.

The five-time Ballon d’Or winner’s astir caller extremity came during the 2-1 Round of 32 comeback triumph against the 2018 finalists Croatia successful Toronto, wherever helium converted a punishment to equalize earlier Goncalo Ramos secured the triumph with a stoppage-time extremity from the bench.

Ahead of the Selecao’s rematch against La Roja successful the 2010 World Cup Round of 16 on Monday, goalkeeper Simon commented connected Ronaldo’s finishing ability, telling reporters, “The Cristiano of today is not the aforesaid arsenic the 1 from six oregon 7 years ago, during his prime. 

“However, it is evident that we indispensable support him arsenic acold from the container arsenic possible, due to the fact that erstwhile helium is wrong th...