Griezmann did not deserve Euro 2016 award – Leboeuf

Following the disappointment of the 1966 final defeat in Beckenbauer’s first World Cup, he took over as captain of the side in 1971 and promptly led the Germans to back-to-back tournament wins.

Prior to the tournament, Germany’s Lothar Matthaus would have been resigned to the fact that his record of being the oldest player to play in a European Championship game is going to be broken after 16 years.

Portugal lost captain Cristiano Ronaldo to a knee problem early in the match, but Fernando Santos’s side recovered to lift the crown and Pepe called the occasion “an extraordinary match”. And I did it. Thank God, things went well for us. The boy patted the fan on the arm as they walked off and the man stopped to give him another hug.

Les Bleus were hoping to win their third tournament in a row on home soil but Portugal produced the goods, despite losing Cristiano Ronaldo to injury.

“This is a unique moment for me, for all the Portuguese people and it’s unforgettable”. There were a number of players who showed a lot of quality.

His new found adulation after Portugal won their first ever major trophy is in stark contrast to his childhood when he was born in the Portuguese colony of Guinea-Bissau.

Moussa Sissoko also drove a thundering shot over the bar while French substitute Andre-Pierre Gignac sent an extra time shot against the post.

Didier Deschamps is to remain as manager of France for the 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign, the Frenchman has said.

“We must not throw everything that we’ve done away, but we threw away a great chance to be European champions – not the only one, but a great one”. And they achieved it by winning only one of their seven games at Euro 2016 inside 90 minutes.

Despite some doubts about the 24-country format, Uefa’s executive committee “praised the competitiveness of the competition” in a statement after a meeting on Saturday.