Ronaldo scored much than anyone other passim a grounds six editions betwixt 2004 and 2024.
Twenty years aft playing his first Euros, Portuguese shot fable Cristiano Ronaldo said nan 2024 version is going to beryllium his last.
The announcement follows nan dramatic information of 16 crippled against Slovenia, wherever nan 39-year-old prima collapsed down successful tears aft missing a cardinal extra-time penalty, earlier helping nan squad triumph nan last shootout by scoring nan opening one.
Speaking to Portuguese nationalist broadcaster RTP astir his decision, Ronaldo said he was not "emotional astir that" and that it did not mean "leaving nan world of football".
“What other is location for maine to do aliases win? It’s not going to travel down to 1 constituent much aliases 1 constituent less.”
The existentNassr subordinate has been 1 of nan protagonists successful Euro championships' history.
He played successful a grounds six editions betwixt 2004 and 2024 - and is by acold nan tournament's all-time apical scorer, pinch 14 goals.
He won nan Euros once, successful 2016, nan only world trophy Portugal lifted to date. The aforesaid year, he went connected to triumph nan Ballon d'Or by a grounds separator of 429 points.
However, he's yet to people successful Germany, and has a difficult ngo ahead, arsenic Portugal return connected favourites France successful a thriller Friday quarter-final astatine Hamburg's Volksparkstadion.
There person been only 3 precedents betwixt France and Portugal astatine awesome tournaments, each of them astatine nan Euros.
France person a flimsy separator pinch 2 wins (1984, 2000) complete Portugal's 1 (2016).
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