Former Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, who lost to Greece in the 2004 final hosted by Portugal, showered praise on the players.
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Sunday, Portugal defeated France 1-0 to capture the Euro 2016 crown.
A thundering out-of-the-blue shot by substitute Eder gave Portugal a shock 1-0 win over France in the European Championship final, delivering the country’s first global title as superstar Cristiano Ronaldo watched injured from the touchline.
Dimitri Payet has been speaking about the challenge that forced Cristiano Ronaldo out of the Euro 2016 final. “I should congratulate him”, Portugal coach Fernando Santos said through a translator.
“Cristiano could score at any moment and sort everything out on his own, but I always said we are a team – we win as a team”, Santos added.
Deschamps, who knows all about winning title matches having captained France to their 1998 World Cup victory on home soil and the European Championship crown two years later, has never hidden the fact that he hates losing. When you hit the post in the dying seconds. football can be very cruel. “The overriding emotion is a lot of sadness”.
Eder picked the flawless moment to score his first competitive goal for his country, marauding forward before letting fly with a bullet shot from 25 meters in the 109th minute. We have made Portuguese history, we are the first to win an important competition for our country.
And the 47-year-old thinks there is more to come from his side, which features plenty of young talent, spearheaded by players such as Player of the Tournament Antoine Griezmann and Paul Pogba.
Only Michel Platini, another Frenchman, has scored more goals in a single Euro tournament (nine in 1984) than Griezmann did in 2016.
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Portugal won the game thanks to Eder’s 109th-minute long-range strike. For the unheralded striker, who plays in France for Lille, it was only his fourth goal in 29 appearances for Portugal.
