The 35-year-old is without doubt a national treasure in his home country and now a club in Portugal.
SC Olhanense’has written a letter to the man to garner support from him to help fight for justice.
The team being denied promotion to the Segunda Liga despite being top of their division in the Campeonato de Portugal.
In a bizarre set of circumstances, SC Olhanense, who play in the Campeonato de Portugal D Series and who have been refused promotion, have penned an open letter to Cristiano Ronaldo who they refer to as “God of Portuguese football” to try and help.https://t.co/S2lL2AcUCF
— Próxima Jornada (@ProximaJornada1) May 19, 2020
“We are players of Sporting Clube Olhanense, an Algarve club with 108 years of history, where your good friend Valdir Cardoso started his career. We decided to send you this letter because you are the greatest global icon and an inspiration for anyone who plays football in our country,” the letter read.
“The mystique of Cristiano Ronaldo inspires and moves the passions of all boys who practice street football in our neighbourhood, and feeds their appetites to strive to reach the pinnacle of the sport through their daily training sessions. And we too, as players in the minor championships, are continually inspired by your efforts and your heroism. Your extraordinary career, your goals achieved and your historic victories are the result of your enormous talent, combined with total dedication and sacrifices, so you are the best! And, therefore, we are sure that you will be able to imagine the emotional state in which we find ourselves at this moment.
“Defying all the difficulties in semi-professional football, we have been working since the first day of this season with a single objective, to reach the Segunda Liga to finally become professional players. It was a great season, game after game, our team gained confidence, the dressing room got together, the number of fans increased and the results took us to the top of the league and we were in first place at the time of the suspension of games due to Covid-19. Our left-back, Leonardo Lelo, 19 years-old, was called up for the Portuguese under-20 national team – the only player in the team from the entire Portuguese Championship. How beautiful! What satisfaction!”
The letter also explained how the Football federation in Portugal had promoted Vizela and Arouca from two other divisions when it would have been fair to promote all four top teams or calculate the points on home and away basis which would have seen SC Olhanense promoted.
