
When Portugal announced Roberto Martinez as the nation's new manager in January 2023, Cristiano Ronaldo had just moved to Saudia Arabia to join Al-Nassr following his bitter exit from Manchester United just a couple of months before.
World Cup 2022 sat in the middle of Ronaldo's huge shift in his club career, but the Portuguese talisman could do little to affect his country from bowing out in the quarter-finals to Morocco.