London (Archyde.com)
South Korea coach Paulo Bento said that the Portuguese national team is not a single player team, and that his team will seek to achieve some tasks, when it meets with him in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, including addressing the danger of his star Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Portuguese Bento is well aware of the capabilities of Ronaldo, 37, the Manchester United striker, after he previously trained his country, the former European champion between 2010 and 2014.
In the first round, South Korea will meet Ghana and Uruguay in Group H.
“We can’t focus our attention at the moment on one player,” Pinto said. “No matter which player we are talking about.” Everyone knows that he is one of the best players in the world of all time, but we will have to take care of all the Portuguese players and not focus on just one player.
Pinto added: “Portugal has a large number of very distinguished players in many, many aspects, and they play in the most important European leagues.”
Ronaldo, who has the best goalscoring record at the international level, will participate in the World Cup finals for the fifth time, while the South Korean team will participate in the tournament for the tenth time in a row.
The Bento team qualified easily for the finals from the first Asian group in the qualifiers, but it finished second, after its Iranian counterpart, after its unexpected defeat in the last round against the Emirates.
Regarding his team’s qualifying campaign, Pinto said: There were some difficult moments, which in my opinion gave us the opportunity to develop as a team. These moments at the same time gave us the opportunity as a technical staff to develop as well and to develop our ideas in the best possible way.. The most important thing for me is that during these moments we did not shake our faith in our way of managing the team and playing.