Fernando Santos is left without support to continue leading Portugal

The future of Fernando Santos is still in the air and to this hour does not seem too likely that follow heading to the selection of Portugal. The own fans lusos have turned away him to his seleccionador when considering that it has to renounce after the surprising elimination in front of Morocco in the quarter-finals of the World-wide of Qatar.

To the defeat in front of the Moroccans (1-0) adds the controversy that has accompanied to the selection on Cristiano Ronaldo and the decision of Saints to leave to the footballer in the bench until the second part, when the meeting already was near of the minute 60. Now, 93,5% of the participants in a survey published by the sportive newspaper 'To Ball' thinks that Saint would not have to continue like seleccionador after more than 8 years in the charge.

Besides, 'Or Jogo' consulted to several ex-international lusos and all have opted by the course of Fernando Santos. Álvaro Magalhãis, four times champion of Portugal with the Benfica, sustains that the technician "has to finish his cycle" because there is "wear" in the team. The exfutbolista coincides with Vítor Paneira, the one who is convinced that it is "hour to finish this cycle".

Rain of criticisms

Rodolfo Reis, several times champion with the Port wine, thinks that Santos "has conditions to continue", although it is "complicated". Besides, has "doubts" by the future relation between the seleccionador and Cristiano, the one who already has ensured that will play the Eurocopa of 2024. To all this has added the couple of the crack Portuguese, the Spaniard Georgina Rodríguez, the one who criticised the decision of the seleccionador by "subestimar to the best player of the world".

Santos also was questioned by the ambassador of Portugal in Japan, Vítor Sober, that used the networks to accuse to the technician to "hold to the place and not to put it immediately to disposal". The seleccionador "will go out by the low part, hostage of his tactical inability, of his fear, of his incoherence, but especially of his pequeñez", wrote the ambassador luso in his profile of Linkedin.

In spite of winning the Eurocopa 2016, the first big trophy of Portugal, and the League of Nations in 2019, Fernando Santos is often criticised in the country by his style of conservative game and sometimes very dependent of the played individual, especially of Cristiano, Bruno Fernandes or Bernardo Silva. Asked after his possible exit after the meeting with Morocco, Santos said that "it does not pose ", but that will speak with the president of the Portuguese Federation of Football to see "what is the best for the selection".