They didn't choke. Portugal was better. A nightmare to watch for everyone between neutral and french, but better. Better defense, better positionplay. France had visibly no idea what to do. Funnily enough a common theme of this Euro, see Germany-France. Of course, luck was a major contributing factor but in the end, Portugal was better. And won. The end.
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Euro 2016 |OT2| Portugal eurowns France + Moths to become champions!
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They didn't choke. Portugal was better. A nightmare to watch for everyone between neutral and french, but better. Better defense, better positionplay. France had visibly no idea what to do. Funnily enough a common theme of this Euro, see Germany-France. Of course, luck was a major contributing factor but in the end, Portugal was better. And won. The end.
Can't judge him solely on that performance, but he's never a £100m player. Utd just have money to burn and haven't got any sense IMO.
On a side note, congrats to the old man, Mr Carvalho.
Premier League. Throw money at the wall and hope it sticks.
I think that in the first half France was much better than Portugal. Portugal only dominated the minutes after scoring when France chocked. The rest of the match was more or less equal, with France playing slightly better.
I'm not French or Portuguese, that's what I saw.
18 years ago I was crying when France beat Bazil 3-0 in the 98 WC final. From that moment on, I hated the French National Team with a passion that culminated with their embarrassment in the group stage on the 2002 WC and Brazil being World Champs once again. Today, the full circle in close; I saw for the first time France losing in his home country in the same stadium that they beat Brazil 18 years ago with Didier Deschamps, who back then was the team captain, as a manager. I don't hate the French National Team anymore but today I felt like the book was finally close.
CheDominik
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And he's worth more to ManUtd because he counts as a homegrown player in the Champions League. Anyone who played FM knows what a pain in the ass that rule can be
Still must be a tough pill to swallow to pony up that amount of money for a player you let go for nothing a couple of years ago.
Pogba is a great player, he didn't have a great tournament but that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
Johnny Cage In The Shower
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It's as if you didn't watch one match in this entire (month) tournament, just showed up today to post....
This was the silver lining of Ronaldo's injury. Now we can easily shut up the people who say Portugal = Ronaldo.
Johnny Cage In The Shower
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whatsinaname
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This Rolando guy could be worth a few quid. Maybe 80 million or so of them.
CheDominik
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The success of the Portuguese National team maybe made people realize what a great job teams like Benfica Porto and Sporting do when it comes to developing young players. Benfca and Porto are widely regarded as the best scouting teams in Europe and have developed a myriad of really good players despite extremly limited ressources compared to the other clubs in Europe.
massivekettle
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And he's worth more to ManUtd because he counts as a homegrown player in the Champions League. Anyone who played FM knows what a pain in the ass that rule can be
Still must be a tough pill to swallow to pony up that amount of money for a player you let go for nothing a couple of years ago.
Pogba is a great player, he didn't have a great tournament but that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
That doesn't change the fact that Pogba is still not worth £100m
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Dortmund did some astute business picking up Guerreiro before the Euros started.
Both squads are filled with more foreigners than in years gone by, so the production line isn't what it once was. Having said that, a gem like Sanches pops up every so often. Neves to follow his footsteps?
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CheDominik
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In today's market he absolutely is.
He is a real complete player at a ridiculously young age who has proven himself at the Champions League level.
Actually they are starting (specially Benfica with their new coach) to bet on their youngsters a lot more, a direct consequence of the financial issues they are facing. Sporting is doing that for a long time now, thats why Portugal uses their midfield trio and most of the players were formed there.
All three academies are a goldmine.
Yeah, he even has a somewhat mixed accent
As someone who is (still) completely opposed to having nationalised players in a national squad (for example Brazillians in the Portuguese squad) I have to hand it to Pepe, he "feels" it more than most Portuguese players.
massivekettle
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Please define today's market.
Is he a complete player, though? He's great, don't get me wrong, but he didn't really light it up at the Euro, especially when it mattered. That said, it would be harsh to judge him based on his performance at a single tournament.
And Pogba is not ridiculously young? He's 23, and hitting his prime. At that age, Ronaldo and Messi, and Neymar were already tearing it up.
Very happy for Portugal, they were close to or in the finals of so many tournaments, they deserved a win. In the Figo era there was a roster of players that were more impressive than the current one to me and they couldn't reward themselves. A golden generation was wasted I thought and now the next one steps up and achieved success.
It just sucks that times are so bad you wonder if a win for France would have made that country more stable when right now the EU needs a strong France more than ever. But purely from a football perspective I'm very pleased with the result.
It just sucks that times are so bad you wonder if a win for France would have made that country more stable when right now the EU needs a strong France more than ever. But purely from a football perspective I'm very pleased with the result.
SilentRacoon
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Yes, I watched him fail miserably.
Pepe was the MVP hands down, he fulfilled his position through the tournament like nobody else, despite him being a huge prick, he still proves himself in the field.
B-b-but, rebuild. Draft lotteries. Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, William Nylander, Reilly and Anderson.
CheDominik
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When Granit Xhaka,Sadio Mane and Mkhitaryan are worth around 40 Millions, Pogba is easily worth 100. The entire premier league is raking in cash from their TV deal, we've seen an incredible inflation when it came to fees during the last couple of years.
23 is incredibly young, there is around a decade of his prime left. Comparisons to Messi and Ronaldo are not really viable. We're talking about completely different positions and responsibilities.
Since 2014, Portugal has reached the EURO final with the following teams: U17, U19, U21, and the national team. They won with the national team and the U17 team now.
A good chunk of this winning team comes from Sporting's youth academy. Ronaldo, Quaresma, Nani, William Carvalho, Adrien Silva, Rui Patricio, Jose Fonte, etc. I'm very happy to see Benfica and Porto catching up. This is very good for the future of the Portuguese team. I just hope they can produce a decent striker before I die.
I'm curious to see what the team achieves during the Olympics now.
Well minus those of African descent (from Portuguese colonies), the rest are all born in France, minus one that is born in Germany. They are all of Portuguese descent though and most have came to Portugal at a young age and were formed by Portugal's youth academies.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Ronaldo is good at motivating teams, first Iceland and then this.
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SuperSonic1305
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Every team that Portugal faced choked. Or maybe just maybe Portugal actually played well and people's hatred is clouding their mind.
CheDominik
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Nuno Gomes had a good run in 2000
Btw. on the whole Pogba is overrated thing: Nuno and Milan Baros are cautionary tales when it comes to overrating performances during a tournament.
Good to see the other two attempting to follow SCP.
dragonbane
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Deserved win and I love your country as a tourist. Celebrate being awesome
Andrefpvs
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That is a beautiful, heartwarming video.
Thanks for linking, I saw that earlier but couldnt link it
You probably need glasses or something. Ronaldo was directly involved in most of the goals Portugal scored in this tournament.
And that Payet tackle was clearly nothing.Only you and the referee seem to think that was fair game. Ronaldo must've been hit by a ghost i guess.
Anyway, CAMPEOES CARALHO!!! somebody hold me!
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SilentRacoon
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That kid has a heart of gold, what makes it even better is that he is also a Yankees fan.
Bam Bam Baklava
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2018 squad could be formidable with some of these young guys playing alongside Ronaldo.
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thehypocrite
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Legend!!
texhnolyze
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There was Eusebio and Figo. But I haven't seen Eusebio in action and too young when Figo was on the spotlight. I'm not a fan of Ronaldo (not a fan of Messi either, mind), but I think Ronaldo deserves the praises.
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