…was a UMM. Why? That's what we'll try to explain in the next few lines.
After we've given the Rest of the World 4-0 in this article, Razão Automóvel goes back to the football analogies. All because Portugal was crowned European Football Champion yesterday by beating the French national team 1-0. In the good Portuguese way, we did it in a sweaty way. Thanks to our strength! We were the UMM of this European.
Like the nationally produced jeep (which curiously equipped with a French engine), we weren't the fastest, we weren't the ones who scored the most, and we based all our performance on constancy, reliability and the ability to overcome the steepest obstacles. Just like the UMM. Without stardom and always guided by humility on and off the field – the UMM was also a humble jeep inside and out.
Against the powerful and fast Bugatti Chiron of the French team, Portugal responded with the resilience of the UMM – a kind of recreation of the famous fable of the “Hare and the Turtle” in an automobile version. When gasoline began to run out of the powerful French engine, Portugal put the gears in gear, and the victory came late, but it did! – we had to wait until the 108th minute of extra time for Éder's striker.
Naturally, this analogy is made in reference to the team spirit and the mutual help of our team, because if it were in reference to the individual value of our players, then we didn't lack supersports in the team… One last word for mechanic Fernando Santos, I wouldn't have he tuned all the pieces of our UMM so well and victory would not have been possible.