“All these years, we have not been able to win anything even though we had players like Figo (Luis) and Rui (Costa) and a more talented squad”.
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This year’s UEFA European Championship in France was one of the most talked about sporting events ever on Facebook, with Cristiano “Ronaldo lifts the trophy” being the top moment (globally) in the final match.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Pepe jumped and shouted after seeing how Éder could score from outside the box the decisive goal in the minute 109th. He has also stolen a march on his great rival Lionel Messi, who announced his Argentina retirement two weeks ago, in the battle for the next FIFA Ballon d’Or.
“This is a big knock on the head”, Deschamps said after Les Bleus’ dream of another home triumph in a major tournament ended with a 1-0 defeat in extra-time by Portugal in the Euro 2016 final. I think we deserve this title due to the work we put in, all the players and the staff. Portugal had been wanting this title for so long.
Portugal proved they can flourish without their talismanic forward Cristiano Ronaldo, at least on the pitch, in beating France to win Euro 2016. “Thank you very much to the Portuguese”, he said. “We had our chances, it came down to small things but there you go”. He helped our team-mates a lot, he always says a lot of motivational words and all the team of course react to them. “I got the ball back, but if I hurt him it wasn’t intentional – it’s not in my nature to be a nasty player on the pitch”.
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Part of it is France’s reputation for harsh treatment of any sort of disturbance involving soccer fans, while the other part appears to be a continuing trend at the Euro 2016 tournament. “Everything we’ve experienced over the past few weeks and months has been positive so I’m just disappointed we couldn’t win this trophy for the millions of fans”, he said.
