Ronaldo's Portugal Revival?

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Sports, Soccer

4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The FC crew react to Portugal's 2-1 victory over Germany and argue if Cristiano Ronaldo does have a place in Roberto Martinez's squad after scoring the winner on the night. Plus, Jurgen Klinsmann and Jan Aage Fjortoft preview Thursday's EURO semifinal rematch between Spain and France. The guys also react to Luis Garcia's exclusive interview with Pep Guardiola. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	For the team ready to conquer the grandest stage,
0:05.0	immortality wins.
0:07.0	Moments of sweat and sacrifice.
0:13.0	Forge the composition of champions.
0:16.0	It's self-explanatory, as glory,
0:19.0	a spanditori, an unforgettable journey is nearing its finale.
0:22.6	Four more wins to take home the trophy.
0:25.1	The NBA final presented by YouTube TV, begin June 5th on ABC.
0:34.5	Hello and welcome into the latest edition of ESPNFC, K-Murray, Ali Ali Moreno and Frank Leboff here in the studio, kicking things off with the semi-final in the Nations League between Portugal and Germany.
0:46.2	And we saw Cristiano Ronaldo score the winner in this game, as Portugal scored twice in five second half minutes to beat Germany to one.
0:54.4	Florian Verst had struck first, but Francisco Conceau and Ronaldo struck back to book a spot
0:59.7	in the Nations League final.
1:01.6	Ronaldo, Ali, 40 years old and still having an impact for Portugal.
1:06.2	Absolutely he is.
1:07.4	And there's no denying that you score the game winner in a semifinal you should be praised and indeed
1:13.0	this is your position now christina ronal is not a guy that goes out white or drops underneath he is
1:17.9	a center forward and what is the center forward supposed to do well you can ask jrgen clingsman is scoring
1:22.8	goals scoring goals and even if it is tapings you have to be there in order to score them. He was there to receive the pastor, No Mendes.
1:29.7	But I think if we focus on Cristiano Ronaldo, we're making a huge, huge mistake.
1:36.5	You got to see the totality of Portugal and appreciate how good of a team this is and how good of a team they can be.
1:42.7	And especially and particularly one of
1:45.4	franx boys when vittina gets on the field this team becomes something different entirely they were
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