EURO 2008 - The Official JCC Discussion Thread

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Welcome to the Euro 2008 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.

JC Links:
Euro 2008 The Arena discussion
Euro 2008 JC Fantasy Football game
Euro 2008 Single Pick Game

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Official Links:

The Official Euro 2008 Website
BBC Euro 2008 Mini Site
ESPN Euro 2008 Mini Site


UEFA?s very own website details the history of the competition.

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

2004 Greece 1-0 Portugal
(Held in Portugal)

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 Netherlands 2-0 USSR
(Held in West Germany)

1984 France 2-0 Spain
(Held in France)

1980 Germany 2-1 Belgium
(Held in Italy)

1976 Czechoslovakia2-2 Germany (Czechchoslovakia 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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Number of Wins:

Germany ? 3

France ? 2

USSR/Russia ? 1

Spain - 1

Italy ? 1

Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic ? 1

Netherlands ? 1

Denmark? 1

Greece - 1


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Full Squad Listings

Group A

Switzerland
1 Diego Benaglio
2 Johan Djourou
3 Ludovic Magnin
4 Philippe Senderos
5 Stephan Lichtsteiner
6 Benjamin Huggel
7 Ricardo Cabanas
8 Gökhan Inler
9 Alexander Frei
10 Hakan Yakin
11 Marco Streller
12 Eren Derdiyok
13 Stéphane Grichting
14 Daniel Gygax
15 Gelson Fernandes
16 Tranquillo Barnetta
17 Christoph Spycher
18 Pascal Zuberbühler
19 Valon Behrami
20 Patrick Müller
21 Eldin Jakupovic
22 Johan Vonlanthen
23 Philipp Degen
Coach: Jakob Kuhn

Czech Republic
1 Petr Cech
2 Zdenek Grygera
3 Jan Polák
4 Tomá? Galásek
5 Radoslav Kovác
6 Marek Jankulovski
7 Libor Sionko
8 Martin Fenin
9 Jan Koller
10 Václav Sverko?
11 Stanislav Vlcek
12 Zdenek Pospech
13 Michal Kadlec
14 David Jarolím
15 Milan Baro?
16 Jaromír Bla?ek
17 Marek Matejovský
18 Tomá? Sivok
19 Rudolf Skácel
20 Jaroslav Pla?il
21 Tomá? Ujfalu?i
22 David Rozehnal
23 Daniel Zítka
Coach: Karel Brückner

Portug

 

Which group are England in?

 

We dropped out of the competition to give someone else a chance for a change

 

nice thread, Omega.

i was going to support Portugal for this tournament but now i'm not so sure.

i think i will support Germany now.

 

How long have you been waiting to post that one?


P.S. Portugal suck.

 

What channel is showing the games in the U.S.?

 

Spain.

I'll be rooting for Spain as in all the previous big tournaments I've watched. Underachievers, great squad, good footy usually. One day I hope they win. I don't expect it to be this year, though. They'll face the winner/runner-up of the France/Italy/Holland/Romania group.

Being someone who usually only watches the premier league and the occasional Liga game, I can't wait to see the continental players in action. Players like Benzema, Ribery, Ben Arfa, van der Vaart, Modric. Should be a good tournament. Pity England aren't in it, they're always worth a few laughs.

 

ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC.

 

Yey!!!

 

I'll be supporting Germany like I did after England got knocked out of the World Cup. They've got some of my favourite players so I might as well.

 

More like crashed out

I'll be supporting Germany, and also keeping close watch on how Russia do.

 

Goooooooooo Hrvatska!

 

Netherlands all the way.

 

I've heard that line somewhere before.... can't quite place it... Oh yeah...

 

Gooooooooooooo Furia Roja!

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Damned Arena forum. I already couldn't stand it, now it's stealing the traditional JCC football cup discussion.

 

Well, if it's been said twice, it must be true...

 

lol, forum wars

 

England has never even been to the final match.

England has never even been to the final match.


There. Now that's true too.

 

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I prefer this picture instead.

I wanted to say that for months now (not really just a few days ) and as for Portugal sucking, well, I'm sure you will lol at Portugal and C.Ronaldo tonight so please let me enjoy this moment at its fullest.

 

First matches today woo

 

YES

 

My main fear is that since England are out, my better-and-nevertheless-British half will refuse to acknowledge the very existence of the tournament and will choose to play GTA instead of watching the games. Hmm. I wonder if the Panini sticker album sells well in England.

And I don't like starting against Romania, I sense an upset. But if we crash out early, then Wenger will get Nasri for cheap.