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10 years ago today, I was watching the Euro Cup final at a mall in Portugal. A lady literally passed out & had to be escorted out by ambulance after Ronaldo went off injured. & no one batted an eye at her because of the suspense of the game.
It was one of the most grueling 90 minutes, and somehow everyone in the room kept faith that we could somehow pull it off in extra time.
Someone at the front of the crowd began celebrating like a lunatic after looking at a notification on their phone, and everyone else was looking around confused asf. Until out of nowhere, São Eder takes a shot that changed the fate of our nation.
Tables were flipped, tears were shed, and it was the single best moment of my life.
I don’t think anybody slept that night. Horns honking until 3-4am. All eagerly awaiting getting to Lisboa to receive the players. & receive the players we did.
I still have never felt a high like I did that day, and I am so grateful to be Portuguese in the generation where we brought home our first trophy. Nobody can quite understands what that trophy means to us besides the Portuguese community.
I love football. I love late drama. I love comebacks. I love knowing that anything is possible and feeling like we’re watching a steady stream of some of the greatest games ever. I do not love how we are expected to ignore the inconsistencies in officiating and the interventions from VAR, which have largely been heavily weighted towards certain teams and its players. If you’ve watched and followed everything in this World Cup and are still subscribed the idea that it’s all fair, delusionville must be a lovely place to reside.
Anyways, thank you for everything Cristiano. There’s a lot of people with short-term memory, and a lot of simply ungrateful people out there. You once had the entire weight of a nation lying on you, and you took that with grace. What a privilege it was to grow up watching you. Mil vezes obrigado.
@PortuGoal1 We don’t like Portugal’s slow style of play, but after conceding the first goal, we opened up and started to attack more, and we conceded 3 goals - This team is very fragile defensively, and for that reason, we play cautiously. There’s a balance that hasn’t been found yet.