The star of the Portuguese national team, Ruben Diaz, appeared in press statements after being eliminated from the quarter-finals of the European Nations Cup "Euro 2024" on penalties against the French national team.

Diaz said: “It is difficult to be eliminated in this way. Since I have worked here with the national team, this was the best match in terms of control and opportunities, and it is clear that it is difficult to go out in this way. Penalty kicks always depend on luck. They smiled at us before, and today they did not.”

He added: “We need to be calm and be aware of the level at which we present ourselves. We left, but we were very close to moving on and I see that our team has become Increasingly capable, with more resources, we have to keep that in mind, because the vast majority of us will still be here and we will face new challenges.”

He concluded: “Just watch a match.” Today, we reached penalty kicks, but we had the clearest scoring chances, as we could have decided the match early. Luck did not smile at us. This is part of football. This is our life. We have to learn from what we did. We did a lot of bad and good things today “Well.”