Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo gave a terrific interview in the latest edition of the FPF 360 magazine, which was distributed to journalists at the Portugal-Israel friendly match on Wednesday evening.
The figurehead of the Seleção talked about his own and the squad’s shared ambition to add more glory to recent conquests by Portugal, and his hopes and expectations going into the tournament.
PortuGOAL transcribes a translated and abridged version of the interview.
Ambition undimmed
“I’m going into this Euro as if it was my first. I’m as motivated or even more so than in 2004, which was my first European Championship. We are the reigning champions and we are again one of the teams who are contenders to lift the trophy.”
It was from a place of immeasurable faith that Fernando Santos, a day away from Portugal’s potentially fateful clash against Hungary in the Euro 2016 group stage, declared to the world that he’d only return home on July 11th under jubilant circumstances, bidding to take Portugal all the way amongst the threat of an early dash home from the tournament.
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