UEFA EURO 2008™ Team of the Tournament Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon (Italy), Iker Casillas (Spain), Edwin van der Sar (Netherlands). Defenders: Bosingwa (Portugal), Philipp Lahm (Germany), Carlos Marchena (Spain), Pepe (Portugal), Carles Puyol (Spain), Yuri Zhirkov (Russia). Midfielders: Hamit Altıntop (Turkey), Luka Modrić (Croatia), Marcos Senna (Spain), Xavi Hernández (Spain), Konstantin Zyryanov (Russia), Michael Ballack (Germany), Cesc Fàbregas (Spain), Andrés Iniesta (Spain), Lukas Podolski (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands). Forwards: Andrei Arshavin (Russia), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russia), Fernando Torres (Spain), David Villa (Spain).
Except for Lahm, the list is okay. There should be more Dutch. Fernando Torres has not done enough to be on the team.
Replace Lahm with Chiellini Replace Torres with someone else too.. He only really showed up in the final, guess thats where it matters tho.
Two forwards from Russia, but zero forward from Turkey ? Semih scored 3 goals.. If Arshavin enter the list, so as Arda Turan of Turkey NT. Why is Semih and Arda or Nihat not in the list? I personaly dont like it at all. The uefa list is not fair at all.
Other than Turkey's 2 goal against Germany in the semi final (which he made up for scoring himself) he had a great tourney. Why would you take him out?
He did allow Torres to score in the Final. A player on the team should have at least a clean perception of a good tournament. Lahm had three big images of him giving up goals.
He allowed it?? How that ball went in was one of those "one in a million", and Torres got it right!! Not to defend Lahm but I don't blame the goal on him...Had Lehmann not rushed out, Lahm would not have had to slow down to avoid collision and Torres would have had a much harder chance scoring from that angle with Lehmann on the line closing the gap on Torre's angle to get the ball in there. What is the other image you have of Lahm giving up a goal other than Torres and goal #2 v Turkey?