Ronaldo gives Portugal 1-0 win over Croatia

Ronaldo gives Portugal 1-0 win over Croatia
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Summary Portugal registered 1-0 win over Croatia in an international friendly.

 

GENEVA (AP) - Cristiano Ronaldo ended his season by scoring Monday in Portugal s 1-0 win in an international friendly over a Croatia team featuring 16-year-old prospect Alen Halilovic making his debut.

 

Ronaldo scored in the 36th minute with an angled left-foot shot into the bottom right hand corner of the goal. It was the 28-year-old Portugal winger s 39th international strike.

 

Still, the match might be remembered as the night the highly touted Halilovic started his international career.

 

The Dinamo Zagreb midfielder stepped on to the stage as a second-half substitute, and showed his potential by firing a left-foot shot just wide of the goal in the 87th minute.

 

The match marked Portugal s national holiday and was played in Geneva because the Swiss city has a large Portuguese population.
 

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