Portugal hope Cristiano Ronaldo’s milestone World Cup is no millstone

His team and opponents laud him, but Wednesday’s game with the DRC is a test of his powers at a sixth World Cup Inside the home of Houston’s world-famous rodeo, Cristiano Ronaldo enters the last-chance saloon. His sixth World Cup will, with no little thanks to Fifa’s munificence, begin on Wednesday against the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and one of international football’s longest-running soap operas begins winding towards its denouement. Portugal have rarely looked better equipped to grant him the crowning achievement of his career and the question, as ever, concerns who is carryi

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