So unsurprisingly, the narrative around the country’s upcoming World Cup campaign is shaped by the fact that it is his final bow on this stage, his last chance to win Portugal its first World Cup.There are a few teams in the football world as mercurial as Portugal.In the past decade, they’ve reached the Euro semi-finals (2012), won their first major trophy (Euro 2016) and also lifted the inaugural Nations League title in 2019. It’s arguably the greatest era in Portuguese football and yet, they’ve been abysmal in the intervening World Cups.
