The three-time Ballon d'Or winner has won plenty on the club front but has rarely had the team around him at international level to succeed... until now
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When Cristiano Ronaldo first appeared for Portugal at a major tournament - on home soil at Euro 2004 - he could look around the dressing room and find the last of the Golden Generation - Luis Figo, Fernando Couto and Rui Costa.
"They were the heroes when I was growing up," Ronaldo told Uefa before the tournament. "Obviously I focused on them, but I knew where I was going: "I will play alongside them.