{"id":26786,"date":"2016-07-11T01:38:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T01:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/euro-2016-portugal-beat-france-to-lift-european\/"},"modified":"2016-07-11T01:38:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T01:38:04","slug":"euro-2016-portugal-beat-france-to-lift-european","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/euro-2016-portugal-beat-france-to-lift-european\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2016: Portugal beat France to lift European title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Eder scores in extra time to beat host France and win Portugal&#8217;s first major title.}<\/p>\n<p>Portugal overcame host France in the final of the European football championship thanks to their Guinea Bissau-born striker Eder in the second half of extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Eder broke the deadlock in the 109th minute of the final when he cut inside from the left brushing off a challenge by french defender Laurent Koscielny and fired a low shot into the bottom corner from 20 metres.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal secured their first major international title despite losing captain Cristiano Ronaldo to injury in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo, Portugal&#8217;s all-time leading scorer, went down after a heavy tackle from Dimitri Payet in the eighth minute but played on before being replaced by Ricardo Quaresma in the 25th minute.<\/p>\n<p>France nearly snatched a win in stoppage time at the end of 90 minutes when Andre-Pierre Gignac&#8217;s shot rebounded off the post, while Raphael Guerreiro hit the crossbar with a free kick for Portugal in extra-time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13412 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/05ec2231e424492bb5e21f892e9a1ccf_18.jpg\" alt=\"Portugal secured their first major international title thanks to substitute Eder&#039;s goal in extra time\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Eder scores in extra time to beat host France and win Portugal&#8217;s first major title.} Portugal overcame host France in the final of the European football championship thanks to their Guinea Bissau-born striker Eder in the second half of extra time. Substitute Eder broke the deadlock in the 109th minute of the final when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26786"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26786"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}