MUFC board Official Euro 2008 thread!

[benni...]

Yup, this is our thread to talk about the tournement as a whole. We did this with the World Cup. If you guys want to, you can create a seperate thread for United related info from the tourney.

As of right now, I think Spain, Portugal, and Croatia have released their full squads and then The Dutch have released their 30 man provisional. Seedorf turned down a chance to play for them...

More news to come later.

[cr7torossi]

Do we have a fantasy game for the Euros?

[israbeckham]

Glory Glory Portugal!

[benni...]

Cant remember if we did one during the 06 WC, but sounds like a good idea...

[Holy__Joe]

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[Holy__Joe]

Glory Glory Portugal!


Ahhh Yeah..........no thannks;)

[benni...]

Spain Squad in full:
Goalkeepers: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Pepe Reina (Liverpool), Andres Palop (Sevilla).


Defenders: Raul Albiol (Valencia), Carlos Marchena (Valencia), Joan Capdevila (Villarreal), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Juanito Gutierrez (Real Betis), Fernando Navarro (Mallorca), Carles Puyol (Barcelona), Alvaro Arbeloa (Liverpool).


Midfielders: Xavi Hernandez (Barcelona), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal), David Silva (Valencia), Xabi Alonso (Liverpool), Ruben De La Red (Getafe), Marcos Senna (Villarreal), Santi Cazorla (Villarreal).


Forwards: Fernando Torres (Liverpool), David Villa (Valencia), Daniel Guiza (Mallorca), Sergio Garcia (Zaragoza).

Portugal
Quim (Benfica), Ricardo (Real Betis), Rui Patricio (Sporting Lisbon);

Carvalho (Chelsea), Alves (Porto), Meira (Stuttgart), Ribeiro (Boavista),

Bosingwa (Porto), Pepe (Real Madrid), Miguel (Valencia), Ferreira (Chelsea);

Deco (Barcelona), Petit (Benfica), Moutinho (Sporting Lisbon), Veloso (Sporting Lisbon), Meireles (Porto), Ronaldo (Manchester United), Nani (Manchester United), Quaresma (Porto), Simao (Atletico Madrid); Postiga (Panathinaikos),Almeida (Werder Bremen), Nuno Gomes (Benfica).

Czech squad

Goalkeepers: Jaromir Blazek (Nuremberg), Petr Cech(Chelsea), Daniel Zitka (Anderlecht).


Defenders: Zdenek Grygera (Juventus), Marek Jankulovski (Milan), Michal Kadlec, Tomas Sivok (both Sparta Prague), Radoslav Kovac (Spartak Moscow), Zdenek Pospech (FC Copenhagen), David Rozehnal (Lazio), Tomas Ujfalusi (Fiorentina).


Midfielders: Tomas Galasek (Nuremberg), David Jarolim (Hamburg), Marek Matejovsky (Reading), Jaroslav Plasil (Osasuna), Jan Polak (Anderlecht), Daniel Pudil (Slavia Prague), Libor Sionko (FC Copenhagen), Stanislav Vlcek (Anderlecht).


Strikers: Milan Baros (Portsmouth), Martin Fenin (Eintracht Frankfurt), Jan Koller (Nuremberg), Vaclav Sverkos (Banik Ostrava).

Germany, but 3 will be cut from this list
Goalkeepers: Jens Lehmann (Arsenal), Robert Enke (Hanover), Rene Adler (Bayer Leverkusen)


Defenders: Christoph Metzelder (Real Madrid), Per Mertesacker (Weder Bremen), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), Arne Friedrich (Hertha Berlin), Marcell Jansen (Bayern Munich), Clemens Fritze (Werder Bremen), Heiko Westermann (Schalke 04).


Midfielders: Michael Ballack (Chelsea), Thomas Hitzlsperger (VfB Stuttgart), Simon Rolfes (Bayer Leverkusen), Torsten Frings (Werder Bremen), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich), Piotr Trochowski (Hamburg SV), Tim Borowski (Werder Bremen), Jermaine Jones (Schalke 04), David Odonkor (Real Betis), Marko Marin (Borussia Moenchengladbach).


Strikers: Miroslav Klose (Bayern Munich), Lukas Podolski (Bayern Munich), Mario Gomez (VfB Stuttgart), Kevin Kuranyi (Schalke 04), Oliver Neuville (Borussia Moenchengladbach) and Patrick Helmes (Cologne).

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[israbeckham]

Ahhh Yeah..........no thannks;)

Holy__Shit, was I talking to you?

[Holy__Joe]

Well I felt some extra deadweight on my wagon......

[benni...]

I think he is supporting Portugal because of Ronaldo and Nani, like most of us are.

[Rakim_22]

Guess I'll support England...oh wait. :D


Oranje all the way and G'd help us all if we square off with Portugal.

[SirManchester]

I'm content with Loew's squad. He made the right decision regarding goalkeepers and picking a wildcard in Marin.

benni, out of the three cut, they will most likely be Helmes (preferring Neuville because of form and experience off the bench), Jones (because they are more concerned with keeping Rolfes as a Ballack replacement and because they don't really play with a defensive minded midfielder), and Trochowski (because this season he's played less as a technical winger but more reserved and Odonkor will play a similar role he did two years ago)

[holytoledo]

Spain is going to be my team this year I guess.

[Republic of Mancunia]

Groups and schedule reminder. True, it's all easy to find elsewhere but I for one had forgotten/never knew who was in which group and all that, partcularly the format/draw/brackets of the quarters and semis. Maybe I'm not alone in being ignorant? :p

Group A
Czech Republic
Portugal
Switzerland
Turkey

Group B
Austria
Croatia
Germany
Poland

Group C
France
Italy
Netherlands
Romania

Group D
Greece
Russia
Spain
Sweden

Saturday 7 June 2008
1 Grp A Switzerland 18:00 Czech Republic Basel - St. Jakob-Park
2 Grp A Portugal 20:45 Turkey Geneva - Stade de Genève

Sunday 8 June 2008
3 Grp B Austria 18:00 Croatia Vienna - Ernst Happel
4 Grp B Germany 20:45 Poland Klagenfurt - Wörthersee

Monday 9 June 2008
5 Grp C Romania 18:00 France Zurich - Letzigrund
6 Grp C Netherlands 20:45 Italy Berne - Stade de Suisse

Tuesday 10 June 2008
7 Grp D Spain 18:00 Russia Innsbruck - Tivoli Neu
8 Grp D Greece 20:45 Sweden Salzburg - EM Stadion Wals-Siezenheim

Wednesday 11 June 2008
9 Grp A Czech Republic 18:00 Portugal Geneva - Stade de Genève
10 Grp A Switzerland 20:45 Turkey Basel - St. Jakob-Park

Thursday 12 June 2008
11 Grp B Croatia 18:00 Germany Klagenfurt - Wörthersee
12 Grp B Austria 20:45 Poland Vienna - Ernst Happel

Friday 13 June 2008
13 Grp C Italy 18:00 Romania Zurich - Letzigrund
14 Grp C Netherlands 20:45 France Berne - Stade de Suisse

Saturday 14 June 2008
15 Grp D Sweden 18:00 Spain Innsbruck - Tivoli Neu
16 Grp D Greece 20:45 Russia Salzburg - EM Stadion Wals-Siezenheim

Sunday 15 June 2008
17 Grp A Switzerland 20:45 Portugal Basel - St. Jakob-Park
18 Grp A Turkey 20:45 Czech Republic Geneva - Stade de Genève

Monday 16 June 2008
19 Grp B Poland 20:45 Croatia Klagenfurt - Wörthersee
20 Grp B Austria 20:45 Germany Vienna - Ernst Happel

Tuesday 17 June 2008
21 Grp C Netherlands 20:45 Romania Berne - Stade de Suisse
22 Grp C France 20:45 Italy Zurich - Letzigrund

Wednesday 18 June 2008
23 Grp D Greece 20:45 Spain Salzburg - EM Stadion Wals-Siezenheim
24 Grp D Russia 20:45 Sweden Innsbruck - Tivoli Neu

Thursday 19 June 2008
25 QF Winner Grp A 20:45 Runner-up Grp B Basel - St. Jakob-Park

Friday 20 June 2008
26 QF Winner Grp B 20:45 Runner-up Grp A Vienna - Ernst Happel

Saturday 21 June 2008
27 QF Winner Grp C 20:45 Runner-up Grp D Basel - St. Jakob-Park

Sunday 22 June 2008
28 QF Winner Grp D 20:45 Runner-up Grp C Vienna - Ernst Happel

Wednesday 25 June 2008
29 SF Winner #25 20:45 Winner #26 Basel - St. Jakob-Park

Thursday 26 June 2008
30 SF Winner #27 20:45 Winner #28 Vienna - Ernst Happel

Sunday 29 June 2008
31 F Winner #29 20:45 Winner #30 Vienna - Ernst Happel

[Bronaldo]

Supporting Czech Republic !!

[sdotsom]

Spain is going to be my team this year I guess.

Same here.

[Invincible]

No England? Damn....who do I support..


I'll back Germany to win it I guess.

[FIFARay007]

For those interested in just a straight-up match predictor, I created one thru the Euro2008 website...

fifaray007@optonline.net has invited you to play in their JVC Predictor private league called Red Devils.

If you aren't already playing the game then you can register at http://en.predictor.euro2008.uefa.com (http://en.predictor.euro2008.uefa.com/).

Once you have logged in and entered your team, click on the 'Leagues' link you can find at the the top of the page. Now enter the code 18611-825 to join the private league.

Enjoy the game.

[SirManchester]

No England? Damn....who do I support..


I'll back Germany to win it I guess.


You da man!

[Holy__Joe]

Ok my Prediction For the Portuguese then what I'd actually Like

---------------Ricardo-------------
Boswinga--carvalho --Pepe--Ferreira
--------Veloso---------Petit-------
Ronaldo---------Deco--------Simão
----------------Gomes-------------

With Gomes or Deco to get the Captaincy, though i think more likely Nuno. Ronaldo is just a little young and his behaviour when things arent going right just sort of arent the ways of a captain.

What I'd Like to see:

---------------Quim--------------
Boswinga--carvalho --Pepe--Miguel
--------------------Veloso--------
------------Moutinho--------------
Ronaldo---------Deco--------Simão
------------Almeida-----------------