Cristiano Ronaldo’s European Championship campaign is now over.

The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship saw its first BIG loss when Portugal was booted out of the tournament by Germany after losing 3-2 in their quarter-final fixture on the newly-laid turf at Basle’s St. Jakob-Park Thursday night.

Now that team Portugal is out of Euro 2008, people started putting the blame on Luiz Felipe Scolari, Portugal’s team manager, saying that his imminent departure from the national team for Chelsea FC in the English Premier League may have something to do why he failed to manage his team to the fullest against Germany in the quarter-finals.

For what it’s worth, the Portugal boss IS blaming himself, but says it has nothing to do with his move for the Premiership.

”If I hadn’t announced it, we would have lost anyway,” Luiz Felipe Scolari said, referring to the notion that his move to Chelsea FC may have affected the way he managed his team last Thursday night.

”We lost because we didn’t do things with enough quality. It had nothing to do with this or that. Some people will imagine and will write that, but it had nothing to do with that.”

”I am responsible for choosing the players and placing them on the field in certain places, so the person most responsible for Portugal not being in the last four is the Portugal coach, who chooses players and tactics.”

”I am very sad because the Portuguese team could be in the last four. But in this game, a decisive game, we had some lapses of attention which meant we couldn’t get the result we wanted.”

Luiz Felipe Scolari will become the new team manager of Chelsea FC on July 1, replacing Avram Grant who took over the team for a year after ”the chosen one” Jose Mourinho left.

Scolari would now have even more pressure trying to win the Premiership for Chelsea than the pressure he had of trying to win Euro 2008 for Portugal.

Which country will win the Euro 2008 Championships? Bodog sportsbook has the odds.

Italy 8.00

Germany 5.00

Holland 4.33

Spain 7.00

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