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'Fighter' Santos extends contract as Portugal coach

Friday, July 22 2016 by SNTV
  • Portugal coach Fernando Santos on Thursday (21st July) discussed his new four-year deal with the Euro 2016 winners. Santos promised he and his team will "fight for everything" in the coming years but revealed he has not been tasked to achieve any specific objectives.

    SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Fernando Santos, Portugal coach:(on the significance of winning Euro 2016)

    "Wining the European championship is nothing more than that. We are European champions and that's it, period. It doesn't give us a different status, saying that we are the European champions. But that doesn't gives us more or less, nor status, nor presumption. We will carry on being equal to ourselves always with the same goal."

    SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Fernando Santos, Portugal coach:(on what he can promise to achieve next with Portugal):

    "I can only promise work, that's what I always promised, lots of work with the ambition to win, to win all matches. But that is the normal ambition of any coach. So, I don't make "long time" promises, I don't have that kind of concept. What I promise for sure is that the Portuguese can continue to have trust in the Portuguese Football Federation and in its technical staff as we will fight for everything."

    SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Fernando Santos, Portugal coach:(on any targets to be achieved in the next four years)

    "I wasn't asked to reach any objective. The president knows me well, he knows what I think, he knows that my goals are always the same, they are to work more and more and more in order to lead Portugal to what we all wish for and that is what we are going to do."

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