We spoke about Ricardo Quaresma on these pages just a few days ago. The Portugal winger’s career has long been fodder for such discussions, of course.
We talked about the fallen idol, the career which could have been and the real sense of underachievement from a player who once promised so much. Obviously, something similar would have been written somewhere before, such has been his up, down and even further down existence.
All of that had come into sharp focus with the Besiktas man’s fine performance and even finer goal in Portugal’s 3-0 friendly win over Norway in Porto as their preparations for the Euro 2016 finals kicked up a notch.