We continue to get acquainted with 24 teams that find out their football relations at EuroCup.
In the entire history of the European Championship, gold medals were hung three times on the chest of the Germans and the Spaniards. France has 2 victories, the USSR, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greece - 1. The founders of football, the British never played even in the final of the tournament.
The USSR national team has the European "gold" (1960) and three "silver" (1964, 1972, 1988). The Russian national team during its existence did not qualify for the Euro once (2000), 4 times did not overcome the group stage of the tournament (1996, 2004, 2012, 2016). In 2008, she managed to reach the "bronze". By the way, Yuri Zhirkov is the only member of Euro 2008 who still plays for the national team.
The oldest team in the tournament is Sweden (29.2 is the average age of the players). The youngest is Turkey (25 years old). The average age of the players of the Russian national team is 27.9. The years of our team were added by Zhirkov, who will be 38 in August.
The most expensive players in the championship are the French Kylian Mbappe (160 million euros, according to Transfermarkt) and the Englishman Harry Kane (120 million). All together, the players of the Russian national team are worth a little more - 191.8 million euros (Golovin (28 million) and Fernandez (16 million) are valued more than others). The cheapest at the Euro is the Finnish national team, whose players cost 44.6 million.
Joachim Löw has been coaching the German team for almost 15 years. Not a single coach in the world worked with one team without a break more than him. And Rob Page, who took the Wales team to the Euros, is not even its head coach. He is just and. about. The fact is that Ryan Giggs, who led the team since 2018, was suspended from work due to accusations of beating his girlfriend.
Most players were sent to the tournament by the English Premier League - 119. From the German Bundesliga - 89, from the Italian Serie A - 71, from the Spanish La Liga - 39, from the Russian Premier League - 32.
