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2008 June 01 — A Blog of Self Doubt

Euro 2008

 

Hi guys……, do you aware that we gonna have English Premiership break with the 3rd largest sporting events after the Football World Cup and Olympic Games. If you’re really into football then surely you have ready with ‘Jajan’ and a tonnes of cofeines’ subtract supply for Euro 2008.

The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2008, will take place in Austria and Switzerland, from 7 June to 29 June 2008. It is the second successful joint bid in the competition’s history, following the UEFA Euro 2000 hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands. The 2012 competition in Poland and Ukraine is scheduled to become the third jointly-hosted tournament.

A total of 16 teams will participate in the tournament. Austria and Switzerland automatically qualified as hosts; the remaining 14 teams have been determined through qualifying matches which started in August 2006. Austria and Poland will be making their first appearance in the tournament. The winner of Euro 2008 will represent UEFA at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa, unless Italy wins the tournament, in which case the runner-up will be entered, as Italy are already entered as winners of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

The group draw as per below and Group C was stated as Group of death since Holland, Italy and France will be at the same group.

David Beckham Reclaims England Armband

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Beckham will skipper the national team for the first time since relinquishing the armband after the 2006 World Cup quarter-final exit to Portugal. Fabio Capello has name David Beckham as England captain for Sunday’s friendly with Trinidad & Tobago. Sunday will mark his 102nd appearance for the national team. But according to Skysport, there have been suggestions that the midfielder has been handed the captaincy for the game to boost England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup.

England coach Fabio Capello has already used Steven Gerrard, Rio Ferdinand and John Terry as captains since he took charge the Three Lions. The captaincy of England will be rotated among the most influential player in the team. The coach doesn’t intend to name a permanent captain until England’s 2010 World Cup qualifiers in September against Andorra and Croatia, and Beckham remains one of the candidates.

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