At 41, an age when most athletes have long since passed the torch, Cristiano Ronaldo has been called back into the fold of Portuguese football — not by sentiment alone, but by the deliberate choice of a coach who knows him well. New Portugal manager Jorge Jesus, reunited with Ronaldo after their shared season in Saudi Arabia, has answered the question the player himself left open after a tearful World Cup exit: the story continues. In the long arc of sporting careers, this selection asks something quietly profound — where does ambition end, and where does legacy begin?