Soccer Football - Euro 2024 - Group F - Georgia v Portugal - Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen, Germany - June 26, 2024 Georgia's Khvicha Kvaratskhelia celebrates scoring their first goal REUTERS/Bernadett SzaboGELSENKIRCHEN, Germany : Georgia's talisman Khvicha Kvaratskhelia turned in a man-of-the-match performance to propel his country into the last 16 of Euro 2024 with a historic 2-0 win over Portugal, inspired by a pre-match pep talk from his childhood hero Cristiano Ronaldo.
Before Georgia's must-win game, a photo from 2013 of Ronaldo visiting a football academy in Tbilisi circulated on social media showing the Portuguese great surrounded by excited young footballers – among them Kvaratskhelia. "Everybody is so happy, we just made history. Nobody would believe that we would make it happen and we would defeat Portugal. But I think this is why we're a strong team."
Kvaratskhelia – affectionately dubbed"Kvaradona" by adoring supporters of his club Napoli, with whom he won the Italian title in 2023 – put Georgia's win above even that success.
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