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Hello everyone European Championship 2008 will start this Saturday and I’m so excited. I love football and especially when it is a competition between countries.

From today we will start a Euro 2008 blog (category Sports), where we will inform you about everything that will happen during the tournament, the qualifiers to the quarters, semis or final, and gossips about the football players and general information about the championship… You can also participate with your comments

Greece won surprisingly the Euro 2004 in Portugal. This year seems very difficult to predict which country might be the winner. Probably Italy since they won the World championship two years ago and they are in a very good form, but Germany (has won 3 times), Spain and Holland are not bad either and I classify them as probable winners. Other countries like Sweden, Romania and Croatia maybe the ‘dark horses’ of this year’s tournament. Kind of a shock this year that England did not made to qualify for the tournament, the country that created football

So the tournament starts on 7th June until 29th and this year there will be two host countries Switzerland and Austria. The final will hold place in Vienna, in Ernst Happel stadium.

The new European Championship trophy is 18cm higher and 2kg heavier than the original designed by Arthus Bertrand in 1960 and named after Henri Delaunay, the former president of the French Football Federation.

The ball is very modern this year, a white base colour with black dots. The national flags of both countries are integrated into the ball design. There are strict rules for the ball; the weight must be between 410 and 450 g. and the circumference 68-70 cm.

Below you can find all the Groups and the specific countries in each:

Group A:                     Group B:              Group C:                 Group D:
Czech Republic          Austria                  France                    Greece
Portugal                      Croatia                  Italy                          Russia
Switzerland                Germany               Netherlands           Spain
Turkey                         Poland                   Romania                Sweden

The official song of Euro 2008 is sung by Shaggy. It’s really nice , you can listen it here:

Matches of the weekend are:

7th June:

Switzerland - Czech Republic at 18:00 and Portugal - Turkey at 20:45

8th June:

Austria - Croatia at 18:00 and Germany - Poland at 20:45

I predict to win Czech Republic, Turkey, Croatia and Germany. What are your bets? Who do you think will be the final Champion?

Enjoy your weekend

Genta

 

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