Cristiano Ronaldo stated that Portugal’s present era of gamers deserves to win the 2024 European Championship.
Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes, Paris Saint-Germain‘s Vitinha, and Manchester Metropolis pair Bernardo Silva and Rúben Dias are among the many high-profile gamers within the Portuguese workforce aiming to win this 12 months in Germany.
The 5 time Ballon d’Or winner stated: “I consider that this era deserves to win a contest of this magnitude. Semifinals? I hope we will go additional.
“We’ve to go step-by-step, stay within the second, be calm, work in addition to we have now till now, consider that it’s potential. We all know it is a brief competitors, however the workforce is prepared.”
Ronaldo will compete in a document sixth European Championship in Germany, alongside two different members of the present squad — Pepê and Rui Patrício — who have been part of Portugal’s Euro 2016 profitable squad.
“I get pleasure from soccer, data are a consequence, not a objective, they seem naturally,” he stated.
“It is my sixth European Championship, it is about having fun with it in the very best manner, taking part in properly and ensuring the workforce can win.”
This might be his first event underneath coach Roberto Martinez, the previous Belgium supervisor.
Portugal play Czech Republic of their Group F opener on 18 June earlier than fixtures in opposition to Turkey and Georgia.
In Portugal’s 3-0 warm-up win in opposition to the Republic of Eire, the 39-year-old scored twice, rising his males’s worldwide targets document to 130.
“It is getting off to begin which is crucial,” Ronaldo stated.
“I really feel prepared, I’ve ready myself for this competitors.”
Regardless of taking part in in 5 European Championships, Ronaldo nonetheless feels the fun of the competitors.
“Anxiousness is all the time there, that tingling in your abdomen, particularly the day earlier than the sport,” he stated.
“I am glad I really feel it, once I do not feel it, it is higher to surrender and cease. I really feel motivated and ready. I see the workforce fairly calm.”
