Gareth Bale has reiterated his intention to continue his international career with Wales despite enduring a miserable World Cup campaign in Qatar.
Wales were hammered 3-0 by rivals England on Tuesday night, a result that sees them finish bottom of Group B, with only one goal to their name.
Bale was of course the man to net that strike against the USA, but has otherwise struggled to make his mark on football's biggest stage, and was hauled off at half-time during the mauling by the Three Lions.
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"Everyone's disappointed but I think we're all proud of what we've achieved to get here," he told the BBC after the game.
"To do something no other Welsh team has done. To qualify [for a World Cup]. We have to look at how far we've come. Of course we would have loved to have gone past the group. But football's difficult, it's not always easy.
"Teams go through good runs and bad runs and we didn't quite live up to our expectations this tournament.
"But we'll take massive experience from it and we really need to look at how far we've come. To be at a World Cup, if you'd asked us that two years ago, we would have all pinched ourselves.
"So we need to realise how far we've come. How proud we all are of each other to have worked really hard to get here.
"Like I said, it's disappointing to go out. But we'll all walk out of that changing room with our heads held high and proud of each other."
However, having crashed out of the World Cup, questions over what comes next for Bale will likely intensify, despite his insistence this week he has no intention of walking away from international football.
Asked whether he'd be involved in the upcoming Euro 2024 qualifiers in March he replied: "I will keep going as long as I can and as long as I am wanted. It's a difficult moment now obviously.
"We go again. We have a qualifying campaign starting up again in March and we have a few months to get away from international football for months, which is obviously disappointing. But we go again in March."
When pressed further on whether that campaign would involve Bale, he simply replied: "I hope so, yes."
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