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6th August 2016
10:13am BST

And Mourinho, as pleased as he would have been to see his native country lift the Euro 2016 trophy, believes the win had nothing to do with Ronaldo's touchline gesticulations.
"Cristiano Ronaldo didn't help in any way by doing that in the final few minutes of the Euros final," Mourinho told Portugal's SporTV. "There were 11 players on the pitch doing their job, and the person in charge of directing them was the coach.
"I saw it as an overload of emotion from someone who saw that the team was just minutes away from achieving an objective which everyone wanted."
And while Ronaldo's intention was likely to motivate, Mourinho believes he simply lost the run of himself in the significance of the occasion.
"He lost a little emotional control -- not that that's a bad thing," Mourinho continued. "But what my experience tells me is that it is in these moments, when important decisions might need to be made, that the players are lost in their own little worlds."
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