EURO 2004 - The Official JCC Discussion Thread

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Welcome to the Euro 2004 thread.

This thread is for discussion of tournament events only. Any other football discussion, whether it be Manchester United, Arsenal, Everton, or Accrington Stanley related should still go in The Beautiful Game thread.

Links:

The Official Euro 2004 Website
BBC Euro 2004 Mini Site
ITV Euro 2004 Mini Site

The best guide to the venues that I have found is the BBC's, which can be found here.

This is the eleventh holding of the the European Championships. The winning roster is as follows:

2000 France 2-1 Italy
(Held in Belgium/Holland)

1996 Germany 2-1 Czech Republic
(Held in England)

1992 Denmark 2-0 Germany
(Held in Sweden)

1988 Holland 2-0 USSR
(Held in West Gemany)

1984 France 2-0 Spain
(Held in France)

1980 Germany 2-1 Belgium
(Held in Italy)

1976 Czechoslovakia 2-2 Germany (Czech win 5-3 on pens)
(Held in Yugoslavia)

1972 Germany 3-0 USSR
(Held in Belgium)

1968 Italy 2-0 Yugoslavia
(Held in Italy)

1964 Spain 2-1 USSR
(Held in Spain)

1960 USSR 2-1 Yugoslavia
(Held in France)

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Full Squad Listings

Group A

Portugal Portuguese FA

1 Ricardo
2 Paulo Ferreira
3 Rui Jorge
4 Jorge Andrade
5 Fernando Couto
6 Costinha
7 Luis Figo
8 Petit
9 Pauleta
10 Rui Costa
11 Simao Sabrosa
12 Quim
13 Miguel
14 Nuno Valente
15 Beto
16 Ricardo Carvalho
17 Cristiano Ronaldo
18 Maniche
19 Tiago
20 Deco
21 Nuno Gomes
22 Moreira
23 Helder Postiga

Spain Spanish FA

1 Santiago Canizares
2 Joan Capdevila
3 Carlos Marchena
4 David Albelda
5 Carles Puyol
6 Ivan Helguera
7 Raul
8 Ruben Baraja
9 Fernando Torres
10 Fernando Morientes
11 Albert Luque
12 Gabri
13 Daniel Aranzubia
14 Vicente
15 Raul Bravo
16 Xabi Alonso
17 Joseba Etxeberria
18 Cesar
19 Joaquin
20 Xavi
21 Juan Carlos Valeron
22 Juanito
23 Iker Casillas

Greece Hellenic FA

1 Antonios Nikopolidis
2 Georgios Seitaridis
3 Stylianos Venetidis
4 Nikos Dabizas
5 Traianos Dellas
6 Angelos Bassinas
7 Theo Zagorakis
8 Stelios Giannakopoulos
9 Angelos Charisteas
10 Vassilios Tsiartas
11 Demis Nikolaidis
12 Konstantinos Chalkias
13 Theofanis Katergiannakis
14 Panagiotis Fyssas
15 Zissis Vryzas
16 Pantelis Kafes
17 Georgios Georgiadis
18 Ioannis Goumas
19 Michail Kapsis
20 Georgios Karagounis
21 Dmitrios Papadopoulos
22 Konstantinos Katsouranis
23 Vassilios Lakis

Russia Russian FA

1 Sergei Ovchinnikov
2 Vladislav Radimov
3 Dmitry Sychev
4 Alexei Smertin
5 Andrei Karayka
6 Igor Semshov
7 Marat Izmailov
8 Rolan Gusev
9 Dmitry Bulykin
10 Alexander Mostovoi
11 Alexander Kerzhakov
12 Vyacheslav Malafeyev
13 Roman Sharonov
14 Alexander Anyukov
15 Dmitry Alenichev
16 Vadim Yevseyev
17 Dmitry Sennikov
18 Dmitry Kirichenko
19 Vladimir Bystrov
20 Dmitry Loskov
21 Alexei Bugayev
22 Yevgeny Aldonin
23 Igor Akinfeyev

Group B

France French FF

1 Mickael

 

Thierry Henry = LEGEND = GREATEST STRIKER IN THE WORLD

 

Come on everyone else but England !!!!!

Excellent thread Everton You have mark-ups that even Stridarious himself would be impressed by

 

1996 Germany 2-1 Czech Republic
(Held in England)

Damn Germans! We were robbed I tell you, robbed!

 

The first thing to note, I suppose, is that John Terry is not going to be risked against France, but Sven says he'll be fine for the Switzerland game.

The second thing to note is that French striker David Trezeguet is looking hopeful to be fit...

I just hope Marcel Desailly is fit, because he'll be an easy target for Owen's pace.

 

I think Sven is stupid not to have picked Wes Brown. England were already light on central defenders and it was obvious we'd be in trouble if anything happened to Terry or Campbell, and Brown has been playing very well recently and had a great game against Arsenal a couple of months ago and did well against Henry. Now we're stuck with King or Carragher. Oh well, we'll still beat the frogs (no offense intended).

 

i will personal be rooting for france and holland. Thoses have been some of my favorite teams in the past few years.

henry has made quite a carreer out of himself. I remeber in 1998 when france beat brazil (YAHOOOOO) he was just a youngling.

I don't get cabel so i may have to steal someons cabel.

 

First game...

Saturday 12.00pm EST, 9.00am PST, 4.00pm GMT, 5.00pm Portugal Local Time, 6.00pm CET,....

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Portugal vs Greece

Any bets?



Btw, I made some logo icons, though not sure will administration allow them.

Check them out here.

 

Nice thread. (Y) [this board needs a thumbs up smilie]

Sweden WILL win, btw. Just wanted to say that.

Anyway, two matches tomorrow.

PORTUGAL vs. GREECE
Kick-off: 18.00 CET
Stadium: Dragao
Previous meetings:
Portugal: 4 wins
Draws: 4
Greece: 2 wins

Odds from William Hill:
Portugal 1,53
Draw 3,25
Greece 6,00

Likely lineups [stolen from a guide, so may be out of date]

Portugal (4-2-3-1)
GK: Ricardo

LB: Rui Jorge
RB: Paulo Ferriera
CB: Fernando Couto
CB: Jorge Andrade

DM: Tiago
DM: Costinha

LM: Simao Sabraso
RM: Figo
CM: Rui Costa

FW: Pauleta

Greece (4-4-2)
GK: Nikopolidis

LB: Dellas
RB: Seitaridis
CB: Venetidis
CB: Dabizas

LM: Lakis
RM: Giannakopoulos
CM: Zagorakis
CM: Basinas

FW: Nikolaidis
FW: Charisteas

SPAIN vs. RUSSIA
Kick-off: 20.45 CET
Stadium: Algarve
Previous meetings:
Spain: 1 wins
Draws: 0
Russia: 0 wins

Odds from William Hill:
Portugal 1,66
Draw 3,10
Greece 5,00

Likely lineups

Spain (4-4-1-1)
GK: Casillas

LB: Raul Bravo
RB: Salgado
CB: Puyol
CB: Helguera

LM: Etxeberria
RM: Rodriguez
CM: Baraja
CM: Xabi Alonso

AM: Valeron

FW: Raul

Russia (4-4-2)
GK: Ovchinnikov

LB: Sharonov
RB: Evseev
CB: Onopko
CB: Ignashevitch

LM: Kariaka
RM: Gusev
CM: Smertin
CM: Mostovoi

FW: Bulykin
FW: Kerzhakov

 

Nebucchad - Those are excellent. I wish I could wear that England one.

Anyone know exactly what became of the sporting icons thing in COMMS? Did Raven withdraw the proposal? Because I'm still seeing Pistons icons about.

 

Think they don't know either.

About games...I have a feeling that Greece will surprise everyone and shock the host.

 

**COME ON ENGLAND**

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Do us proud lads.

 

******** I HATE FOOTBALL!!!!

 

This way not too many people will know that...

Start thread with that title.

 

Damn Germans! We were robbed I tell you, robbed!
Aren't we great robbers .

BTW GERMANY will get this title, there's no chance to avoid it .

 

Great thread, Everton!

Let's see what happens, but I don't hold any hopes of Spain winning the Euro '04.

 

Spain doesn't win the title, because they are just no team for a championship.

 

Unlike Germany, you mean?

 

Spain doesn't win the title, because they are just no team for a championship.






Who knows? We might surprise you?


I was thinking... Spain never wins because this is a country based on traditions, and one of our most beloved traditions is watching our football team losing in quarters

 

See last World Cup, we've been the best European Team .

And btw we just bluff the other nation before great events, so that they are surprise .


I was thinking... Spain never wins because this is a country based on traditions, and one of our most beloved traditions is watching our football team losing in quarters
Hehehe couldn't express it better .

 

See last World Cup, we've been the best European Team

Ahhh... That World Cup. Spain lost in quarters... Again Gotta love traditions!!!


But we had a good team back there, we just had back luck (and Joaquin )

 

Ahhh... That World Cup. Spain lost in quarters... Again Gotta love traditions!!!
That's why here in Germany thinks that they win, they always lost .


But we had a good team back there, we just had back luck (and Joaquin )
But we have always a bad team with no technical abilities, but we win from time to time .

 

Face it guys, you can't attack to save your lives, but you have an awesome defence (and a hottie )

And you have better luck...

 

w000000t!

Less then 24h left Can't wait until the prediction game starts

Oh well not sure who's going to win, I have a short list of countries I don't want to win...but I'm not going to list that I don't want to get on the wrong side with some users

 

We never had luck .
Think about then 1966 finals, where the "famous wembley goal" counted although it wasn't one .

Or 1986 where we lost against argentina .