Portugal wants to be the first team that wins back-to-back Nations League titles, after their Triumph 2019 under Fernando Santos. The experienced coach also led the team famous to the victory over Euro 2016. Now the dream continues – this time under Roberto MartÃnez. And never before has Portugal a coach with the record of the Spaniard.
MartÃnez has supervised 28 games as manager of Portugal and yields excellent results: 20 victories, four draws and four losses (two in friendly competitions). He has the best points-per-game average in the history of the Portuguese national team-2.32-Die even fernando Santos (2.02).
His profit percentage is an impressive 71.04%, for predecessors such as Santos (63%), Paulo Bento (56%), Carlos Queiroz (51%) and Luiz Felipe Scolari (56.8%).
While Portugal is flourishing under Roberto MartÃnez, Cristiano Ronaldo, the lasting face of the national team. Recently talking about the Movistar+ program Universo Valdano, MartÃnez emphasized the importance of the motivation of a player: “For me, it is most important to know why a player in the national team wants to be …” On 40, CR7 is still burning with that desire.
Ronaldo even blooms under MartÃnez. He scores higher than ever: 0.81 goals per match. No other coach has taken him out of him anymore. For comparison: he on average 0.62 goals per match under Santos, 0.57 under Bento, only 0.07 with queiroz and 0.28 under Scolari. So far he has achieved 18 goals and four assists under the Spaniard – proof of their effective partnership.
Cristiano Ronaldo is clearly not ready yet. First: the Nations League collision with Germany. Then the eyes turn to the World Cup 2026 – A tournament that remains a persistently unfinished chapter in his otherwise legendary career. Maybe that story under Roberto MartÃnez will finally find his perfect end.