Dear friends,

On my personal name and the Portuguese Union’s name, complies to thank everyone who in a way or another sent us congratulation messages to Portugal’s National Team, Europe’s champion 2016.

It was a simple gesture, that I register, revealing of your way of being! From the heart, thank you so much!

I take this opportunity to thank you for your friendship that is above any title. On our part we’ll continue to privilege human relations, based on mutual respect and solidarity and the uncompromising defense of the player’s interests.

To all and each one of you I send a friendly hug, of gratitude and pride, for representing a country so small, but the size of the world.

I leave you a hug the size of your football.

The Portuguese Union’s President

Joaquim Evangelista