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🚨 FPF President Admits Ronaldo’s Exit Was a Wrong Move as Ticket Sales Suffer: 🗣️"I repeatedly warned about this and urged that we take a clear, collective decision to keep Cristiano Ronaldo with the national team for as long as possible. Yes, I am the President of the Portuguese Football Federation, but I cannot make such decisions alone. Important matters of this scale require alignment across the technical staff, the board, and the broader structures of Portuguese football. Letting him leave in this manner was never the plan we had discussed or intended. Right now we are already facing the consequences. Selling tickets has become significantly more difficult, and the prices we are able to charge have dropped. This is not good for the Federation, for Portuguese football, or for the country. Ronaldo has been, for more than two decades, the greatest symbol of Portuguese football and one of the main reasons stadiums fill and the national team generates the commercial strength it has. What we are experiencing now is, in part, the price we are paying for a transition that was neither properly prepared nor handled in the way the situation demanded. It is frustrating and, in my view, a wrong move to have allowed his international career to end like this. The national team is bigger than any individual, but some individuals carry a weight that cannot simply be replaced overnight. We must now work harder than ever to rebuild the appeal of the Seleção, support the players who remain, and plan more carefully for the future so that Portuguese football does not lose the momentum and global visibility Cristiano helped create. The doors of the Federation remain open, and his legacy is eternal, but the practical and commercial impact of this departure is something we are already feeling and will have to address with seriousness and unity."