According to information spread on Facebook (1;2;3;4;5;6) on June 27, after the match between the national teams of Georgia and Portugal on June 26, Cristiano Ronaldo said: “The only thing I can say is that today we played against a team that may become the champion.”
The footballer’s false quote is circulating on social network. No such statement made by Ronaldo can be found in open sources. After the match, the footballer did not make any comments.
The Euro 2024 Group F match between the national teams of Georgia and Portugal took place on June 26, in which Georgia beat Portugal 2-0. With this result, the debutant of this major international tournament advanced to the round of 16.
Portugal’s legendary footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo, played 65 minutes in the match. During the match, Ronaldo expressed anger and dissatisfaction with his team’s poor performance (1;2). Apparently, this was one of the reasons why he did not make any comments after the match. Myth Detector tried to find the quote circulating on the social network in English and Portuguese language sources, but could not find it in open sources, including Georgian and Portuguese sports media websites (1;2;3;4).
On June 27, many comments by Portuguese footballers were disseminated about the match results, but Ronaldo was not among them. It is worth to note that when talking about the match, Bernardo Silva, the winger for Manchester City and the Portugal national team, emphasized that Cristiano does not like to suffer defeats and is very upset with the result.
In his interview, Kvicha Kvaratskhelia, the leader of the Georgian national team and Napoli, said that Ronaldo met him before the match and wished him success, and after the match, Ronaldo honored Khvicha’s request and handed him his T-shirt.
About the source:
The Facebook account, Nikoloz Beridze, frequently spreads disinformation. Myth Detector has repeatedly verified information disseminated by this account in the past.
Fake information posted by Facebook user Levan Tavdishvili has been verified by Myth Detector multiple times in the past.
Myth Detector has also frequently verified fake information spread by Facebook user Khatia Janashia.
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