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“AFTER I SAVED ALL OF THOSE PENALTIES, PEOPLE IN ENGLAND PROBABLY WEREN’T SO HAPPY WITH ME”

You represented Portugal on home soil at Euro 2004. Does losing the final to Greece still hurt 17 years on?

It hurts to think we were so close to winning it. The Portuguese people deserved that win, because of the atmosphere during the entire tournament. Luckily, the reaction of our fans made life bearable for us – every Portuguese was devastated to lose the final, but the fans were proud of our campaign because we’d never gone that far at the Euros before. Even today, people stop me in the street and say nice words about 2004.

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