For , it was a tournament which opened and closed with tears and, once he had stepped down a tunnel and into history, found precious few being shed for him.
He cried on November 24, when he lined up to play Ghana and the Portuguese anthem first played. He cried on Saturday, while marching straight off the pitch and neglecting to remember the fans who had supported the team through a grim defeat to Morocco.
What we witnessed in the intervening 16 days was a dismantling of the myth and aura surrounding an individual who has considered himself above the national team for so long. A player whose estrangement from his nation was made plain by a meaningless, 200-word .
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