Spain Win Euro 2008

Three wins out of three in the group stages. In the quarter-finals they completely outplayed arch-rivals Italy and eventually won on penalties. They demolished Russia in the semi-finals and then today they outclassed Germany in the final, winning 1-0 for their third consecutive clean sheet in the knockout stage.

They were even missing the injured David Villa in the final but it didn’t matter. Villa even remained the tournament’s top scorer with four goals, which I predicted before the start of the competition. He and Andrés Iniesta are my favourite players in the world.

Overall, Spain were really the only very good team in the tournament along with three or four other decent sides. It’s sad that football is played so badly by so many professionals when the sport is so popular. To pick out 11 players to form a team of the tournament you would have to pick mostly Spanish players. The player of the tournament was definitely Marcos Senna. He was consistently excellent in all matches.

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