The Portugal national football team has represented Portugal in international men’s football competition since 1921. The team’s home stadium is the Estádio Nacional, in Oeiras, although most of their home games are frequently played in other stadiums across the country. Portugal is colloquially referred to as the Seleção das Quinas and has notable rivalries with Brazil, with whom they share many common cultural ties and with Spain. The current head coach of the team is Fernando Santos and the captain is Cristiano Ronaldo.
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The Portugal national football team has represented Portugal in international men’s football competition since 1921. The team’s home stadium is the Estádio Nacional, in Oeiras, although most of their home games are frequently played in other stadiums across the country. Portugal is colloquially referred to as the Seleção das Quinas and has notable rivalries with Brazil, with whom they share many common cultural ties and with Spain. The current head coach of the team is Fernando Santos and the captain is Cristiano Ronaldo, who also holds the team record for most caps and for most goals. Portugal’s first participation in a major tournament finals was at the 1966 World Cup, which saw a team featuring Ballon d’Or winner Eusébio finish in third place. The next two times Portugal qualified for the World Cup finals were in 1986 and 2002, going out in the first round both times. Portugal also made it to the semi-finals of the UEFA Euro 1984 final tournament, losing 3–2 after extra time to the hosts and eventual winners France. In 2014, Fernando Santos was appointed as the new head coach for the national team. Two years later at Euro 2016, Santos brought Portugal its first ever major trophy, defeating hosts France 1–0 after extra-time, with the winning goal scored by Eder. With the win, Portugal qualified and made its only appearance in the FIFA Confederations Cup held in Russia, where they finished inThird place. Portugal hosted the brand new 2018–19 UEFA Nations League as well as winning the trophy, defeated the Netherlands 1-0, with Gonçalo Guedes, making it the second major tournament earned by the Portuguese in three finals.
The national team could hold the record for the most goals scored in a single tournament, with 11. The best the nationalteam could do was hold the best score of 9–1 against Italy in the 1958 World Cup qualification, with Luís Figo, Rui Costa, Ricardo Carvalho, and Cristiano Ronaldo among the best players in history. Portugal was not invited to the 1930 World Cup which only featured a final stage and no qualification round. Because of the international conflict due to the World War II, there was no World Cup held until the 1950 competition and subsequently, the team made very few games against other teams. In the 1938 FIFA World Cup qualifier, the Seelção played one game against Switzerland in a neutral ground, held in Milan, losing 2–1 against the Swiss, ending qualification prospects. They would later be invited to replace Turkey, which had withdrawn from participating; however, Portugal too refused to participate in the 1954 World Cup. In 1958, they won a qualification match for the first time at Italy, with a 9–0 victory over the Austrians. They did not qualify on the pitch, but the qualification ended with a 7–3 aggregate score in the second game. They managed to draw 2–2 and play-legged round against Spain, so they would eventually qualify for the second round.
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