Friday, July 1, 2016

Soccer: Polish progress eases pain of penalty heartache (Reuters)

Football Soccer - Poland v Portugal - EURO 2016 - Quarter Final - Stade Velodrome, Marseille, France - 30/6/16 Poland fans REUTERS/Christian Hartmann Livepic

By Piotr Kwiatkowski WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish fans had bittersweet feelings about their quarter-final exit from Euro 2016 on Friday, frustrated by the shootout loss to Portugal but still rejoicing in their team's best run in a major tournament for decades. Playing in the European Championship knockout stages for the first time, Poland could not repeat their last-16 win on penalties over Switzerland and fell to their first defeat of Euro 2016 after former captain Jakub Blaszczykowski had his spot-kick saved. Ten years ago, after Poland's group-stage exit in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the same paper wrote on a black front page: "Shame.


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