Hundreds of deliriously happy, proud countrymen and women turned out in brilliant technicolour at Lisbon airport yesterday to welcome ‘the returning hero’ from Eurovision in Kiev – a slightly bemused Salvador Sobral.
But as Sobral wondered out loud how he was going to “deal with all this”, there was another uncomfortable question in the air.
His exceptional win on Saturday night means that Portugal will be hosting the next Eurovision song contest – and this translates into an outlay of as much as €50 million.
Source: Portugal Resident