For the first time in history, Portuguese football players won the title of European champion.
In the final at the Stade de France on July 10, 2016, they defeated the host France after extra time, and the only goal was scored by Eder in the 109th minute.
The Portuguese did not excel at the tournament, they drew in the group with Hungary, Austria and Iceland and, as one of the four best third-placed selections, made it to the round of XNUMX.
In the first match of the knockout phase, after extra time, they defeated Croatia with a goal by Kvarezma in the 119th minute, with a minimal score, in the quarter-finals they defeated Poland after a penalty shoot-out, and their only victory in regular time was in the semi-finals, when they eliminated the most pleasant surprise with 2:0 of the tournament - Wales.
The final with France was also remembered for the injury of Cristiano Ronaldo, who left the field in tears due to his injury in the 25th minute.
He spent the rest of the match at the side of the field cheering on his teammates and in the end he did what even the great Eusebius couldn't do - he won a trophy with the national team at a major competition.
Ronaldo did not help much on the field in the final, more with advice from the bench, but during the tournament itself it was the other way around - he equaled some records and set some new ones.
He scored three goals and equaled Michel Platini on the all-time list for the number of goals in European championships.
Both hit the net nine times in total, but Platini scored all nine goals during the 1984 European Championship. Ronaldo, however, is the only player to score at four different European Championships.
Also, five years ago, Ronaldo became the footballer with the most matches played at the European Championship. There are 21 of them, three more than the previous record holder, German Bastian Schweinsteiger.
At the last Euro, Ronaldo overtook Luis Figo and became the Portuguese footballer who played the most matches with the captain's armband. Until then, Figo was the record holder with 128 games.
However, one of Ronaldo's records had to be broken that summer, and the "culprit" is Renato Sanches, who at 18 years and 328 days became the youngest player to appear in a European final.
Ronaldo has held the record since 2004, when he and the Portuguese lost to Greece in the final on home soil.
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