Soccer-Germany Bounce Back With Statement 4-2 Win Over Portugal
I sometimes wonder how we’d think about Ronaldo’s career if Messi had never played soccer. The Ronaldo I’ve been watching for the past decade-plus — let’s say since the day the teenage Messi scored that copy-paste Maradona wondergoal against Getafe — is so defined by being Messi’s mirror image that imagining Cristiano without Leo seems like describing the shape of air. And for the past three years, Ronaldo has topped the ESPN World Fame 100 as the most popular athlete…