Eventually, as the days become months and months become years after yesterday’s Euro 2016 final, where Portugal bested France in extra time, no one will remember that it was the poorly played—though passionate—conclusion to a tournament that itself was stuffed with teams that played like our endearing though unlovable champions: more obsessed with clogging their opponents’ attacks than with doing much on offense on their own. Narratives are often more memorable than individual moments, and especially in a final shorn of iconic displays, the powerful storylines at play will wash away the mundane specificities of what happened on the pitch. Indeed, the narrative through lines of Portugal’s win were so obvious coming into the game that you could’ve written 90 percent of the pos…