Despite Portugal’s defeat against Georgia on Wednesday evening, Ronaldo and his partners are qualified for the round of 16 of Euro 2024.
Georgia faced Portugal on Wednesday evening at the Veltins-Arena for the third and final day of Group F of Euro 2024. Already qualified for the next round, the Seleção was beaten by the Crusaders (2-0), who thus qualified for the round of 16 in their first participation.
Kvaratskhelia wanted Ronaldo’s jersey
Left winger from Naples, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia targeted by Paris Saint-Germain, showed his ambitions before Georgia’s last match in the group stage at Euro 2024. The number 7 of the White and Red, who expected to a difficult match, wanted to win and exchange jerseys with Cristiano Ronaldo, his idol.
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“It will be a difficult match but, psychologically and from a motivation point of view, we are more motivated than Portugal since they are already qualified. A lot of people thought we wouldn’t qualify for the Euros and here we are. Everything is possible. And even if you have a 1% chance, you have to use it. We will try to write one more page in our history (…) I hope that we will win and that Cristiano Ronaldo will give me his jersey”he had suggested at a press conference on Tuesday.
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Dream come true for Khvicha
And the evening went as planned for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. Even if the player is not having a good time with Napoli, he is in heaven at the moment in Germany. This Wednesday evening, the 23-year-old winger opened the scoring for his team in the second minute of play. Substituted 8 minutes from the end of the match, Kvaratskhelia still made his dream come true at the final whistle.
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A travers sa story Instagram, the native of Tiflis to the whole world that he made his dream come true. The former Lokomotiv Moscow player shared a story Instagram in which he displays the jersey given to him by Cristiano Ronaldo and his man of the match trophy with the mention “Dreams” (dreams).
“I am very happy today, we succeeded. Portugal has a great team. I told everyone we could win. I’m very proud. I am very happy with this victory”declared Kvaratskhelia at the microphone of beIN Sports after Georgia’s victory and qualification as best third in Group F.
