Ricardo was back in Portuguese goal at World Cup.
And this time I was watching matches also at qualification level. To be honest they were not too interesting, but from the match with Angola I remember comments from the Internet: 'Two Ricardos in the goals, who is the real one?'
Of course this one.
That was great time for Portugal.
Ricardo stopped England second time. He became first goalkeeper who defended three penaties at penalty shoot-out in the history of the Championships.
He saved Lampard's penatly.
And Gerrard's.
Here Carragher shot a penalty but Ricardo didn't move. It was before the refeere's whistle so why bother?
And Ricardo did it again. Saved the third one!
And another match.
Despite what someone may think Ricardo defended that goal, not concieded it.
He was really good during that Championships.
Quick look at the bench and there is goalkeeper Quim. I like him too :)
And as for Quim...
Finally at qualification matches for World Cup 2010 he get his dreamed jersey with number 1.
And one more photo with Quim in the jersey with nr 1 (and of course the rest of the team, but I'm focused on goalkeepers). Pity that after waiting so long he didn't kept it too long...
But came back to Ricardo, it's his picspam! I like this photo, he looks really nice here.
Okay, just one more:
LOL! The defense at training. Quim is in the background (I will recognize his hair style EVERYWHERE).
Now came back to World Cup 2006.
Despite his great performance during the World Cup Ricardo was not able to defend the penalty which gave France the victory in the semi-final (I don't remember who fouled France player in the penalty box and I don't want to know).
He was so close!
But he doesn't have arms 2 meter long so...
It's really sad!
But no one blamed him after this. His performance during the World Cup was great.
Obrigado, Ricardo. Thank you.
Ricardo was named one of three best goalkeepers of the World Cup 2006 to all star team.
Unfortunately I must say that at Euro 2008 he was not as good as he should be. But he was not an exception. Portuguese team performance at Euro was far from being great.
It started nicely, but then the match with Switzerland come.
The team before the match.
It was Ricardo who gave the speech before the game to the team. I bet they didn't listen to him
Quarter-final with Germany.
Shoting Klose a look-of-doom didn't help.
Ricardo was not able to stop Germany. Portugal was eliminated :(
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