If you ask José Luis Astiazarán, the President of the Spanish League of Professional Footballers, then the answer is an unequivocal “yes”. Why? Because, according to him, Spain’s success is a result of “hard work with youth setup” that the LFP has done to promote “homegrown” talent in Spain. This principle enabled [...]

I think its safe to say that the German team that exited the World Cup managed to win not only a few games but also the hearts of a lot of fans-including mine.  And, trust me, no one is more surprised about this than me.  For a variety of reasons, I was definitely in the [...]

In about a week, and once the first controversial call has been made, googling a referee’s home address, scouting the area with streetview, writing death threats and painting little Hitler mustaches on his face will become one of the Internets favorite past times.
Carrying out these hate and anger filled tasks is of course much easier, [...]

A long time ago, in a tournament far, far away, we started a Euro 2008 Fake Photo competition. Basically we asked readers and bloggers to manipulate Euro 2008 photos and make us laugh. We promised to narrow it down to a select few and then let a public vote decide the winner of the £100 [...]

Good news for UEFA. Even after all expenses (including those fake disasters, the extra security AND that Henri Delaunay trophy hot air balloon) they recorded a record profit of 250m Euros (about $394 million.)
Martin Kallen, chief operating officer for the event organisers, said that in comparison with the 2004 finals in Portugal the 2008 [...]

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We may have mentioned this before, but Euro 2008 is coming. We’re going to have the whole thing covered on our Euro 2008 page, with team blogs, liveblogs and all the usual World Cup Blog shenanigans.
We’ve also got a free Euro 2008 Wall Chart for [...]

You may already know this, but we now have a site over on World Cup Blog dedicated to Euro 2008. When the tournament kicks off in June, all our attention (and we’re hoping a good chunk of yours) will be focused there. We have team blogs for all 16 teams, and will be covering events [...]

We’re looking for bloggers to join our team for Euro 2008. If you want to blog about any of the following teams:
Austria, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Turkey…
…then we want to hear from you. It’s not a paid position, but it is a chance to share your writing and your opinion with a big audience. Plus it [...]

With Euro 2008 just beginning to appear on the horizon, we’re going to start picking out some great moments from European Championships history. And what better way to start than with Marco van Basten’s goal from 20 years ago. It was the 54th minute of Netherlands vs USSR in the Euro ‘88 final in the [...]

Steve McClaren’s reputation wasn’t the only thing damaged by England’s failure to qualify for Euro 2008. There are all kinds of other consequences too. Sales of tabloid newspapers for example. Without an England team to build up and then knock down, without an army of WAGS to coo over and without an England manager to [...]