El Nino strikes for victory!

June 29th, 2008 by skills

After 44 years of waiting Fernando Torres scored and brought Spaniards on top of Europe. Absolutely deserved! Spaniards were the most effective team of the tournament and they have played a high quality football.
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Germany - Spain 0:1 (0:1)
stadium: Ernst Happel, Vienna
spectators: 51.400
referee: Roberto Rosetti
goalscorer: […]

Germany-Spain pre-match details

June 29th, 2008 by skills

stadium: Ernst Happel, Vienna
referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)
assistant referee: Alessandro Griselli and Paolo Calcagno
fourth official: Peter Frojdfeldt
Germany: 1 Lehmann (gk), 3 Friedrich, 7 Schweinsteiger, 8 Frings, 11 Klose, 13 Ballack (c), 15 Hitzlsperger, 16 Lahm, 17 Mertesacker, 20 Podolski, 21 Metzelder
substitutes:12 Enke (gk), 23 Adler (gk), 2 Jansen, 4 Fritz, 5 Westermann, 6 Rolfes, 9 Gomez, […]

The Final Countdown

June 29th, 2008 by skills

Recall all the greatest moments of the 13th European Championship and the way Germany and Spain have carved out their chance to fight for the fourth, apropos the second title of the champions of the Old continent.

The team of Luis Aragones, which doesn’t know for anything but victory in last 21 matches, after full 24 […]

Immemorial euphoria in Spain

June 28th, 2008 by skills

Prior to the final of Euro in Spain reigns until now unregistered euphoria connected with the national team.

Sport journals As and Marca published the survey in which 85 per cent of the readers have said that Spain will beat Germany in final.
Prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero predicts 3:1 victory, while the leader of opposition […]

Impressions from the field

June 27th, 2008 by skills

The Spaniards are all seriatim thrilled with their semi-final game against the Russians, but they all agree that it’s still not over. Guus Hiddink admitted that Zbornaja lost from one great team.

“We have accomplished one major success on which we all can be proud. We had some problems in the first half, but in the […]

Villa without the final

June 27th, 2008 by skills

The happiness in Spanish camp because of the entrance into the final of European championship was pretty much addled by the information of the injury of currently the best goalscorer of Euro, who is lost for the final.

David Villa had to leave the field before the 35th minute of semi-final duel against Russia and according […]

Golden Furia stopped the Red army

June 27th, 2008 by skills

The team of Luis Aragones defeated the Russians twice on this tournament, in their first and last match. This time Furia celebrated with 3:0 and completely deserved carved out Sunday’s final against Geramny.

Russia - Spain 0:3 (0:0)
stadium: Ernst Happel, Vienna
referee: Frank de Bleeckere (Belgium)
goalscorers: 0:1 Xavi (50′), 0:2 Güiza (73′), 0:3 Silva (83′)
Russia: Akinfeev - […]

Russia - Spain pre-match details

June 26th, 2008 by skills

stadium: Ernst Happel, Vienna
referee:Frank de Bleeckere
assistant referee: Peter Hermans and Alex Verstraeten
fourth official: Kyros Vassaras
Russia: 1 Akinfeev (gk), 2 V.Berezutski, 4 Ignashevich, 9 Saenko, 10 Arshavin, 11 Semak (c), 17 Zyryanov, 18 Zhirkov, 19 Pavlyuchenko, 20 Semshov, 22 Anyukov
substitutes: 12 Gabulov (gk), 16 Malafeev (gk), 3 Yanbaev, 5 A.Barezurski, 6 Adamov, 13 Ivanov, 14 Shirokov, […]

Russia - Spain

June 26th, 2008 by skills

Furia has the best goalkeeper of Euro, Iker Casillas, so they haven’t practiced penalties for semi-finals, but they have practiced free kicks, counting on uncertain Akinfeev. Before the quarter-final against Italy, the Spaniards relyed on pullin down the tradition - it’s been 24 years since the last time they played in semi-finals and for years […]

Spaniards like and ‘yellow’

June 25th, 2008 by skills

After successfully surmounting unlucky 22nd June, Spanish national team will in semi-finals against Russia fight one more uncomfortable tradition - unlucky yellow jerseys.

Spaniards in their history on 22nd June three times lost matches on big competitions, and always after penalty shootout. Fortunately, against Italy they battered down that uncomfortable row.
Now, they have to face semi-finals […]