The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, lamented this Saturday the lack of effectiveness of Portugal in the quarterfinals of the 2022 World Cup, against Morocco (0-1), but thanked Cristiano Ronaldo for his contribution to world and European football consecutive. matches.
“The one who has opportunities and fails to score, either because the opposing goalkeeper was very good, or because he went to the crossbar, or because he missed, and the one who succeeds wins, is called effectiveness. And in life we have that. here Portugal played, played, played and played, but it was not effective”, he lamented, in statements to journalists after watching the match between Morocco and Portugal (1-0) in the 2022 World Cup at the Caravela restaurant, in Mindelo, last the island of Sao Vicente. .
“We didn’t score. So, we had five or six chances. Morocco had two, three. They scored one and they could have scored one more. We had five, six. We were able to score one or two. But I would like to thank the Portuguese team for taking them all the way to the quarterfinals, the people are very ungrateful and when you lose you don’t have the same enthusiasm you had in the last game, I wanted to thank a Portuguese president for what he did”, said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who watched the match with the president from Cape Verde, José Maria Neves.
“And especially I would like to say a word to Cristiano: nobody knows what the future is, but there will only be another World Cup in four years, with a final stage. The chance to play again in a World Cup final phase.” I wanted to thank him for what he did in many World Cups and many European Championships and he and the rest of the team for what they did for Portugal”, he underlined.
“This time it did not work, I think Morocco won and deserved to win, because it was effective, but we did what we could to reach the quarterfinals and we were not effective,” added the President of the Republic.
Source: TSF
