QUARTER FINAL SQUADS

The real knockout battle begins from today in UEFA Euro cup 2008. Top eight football squads in the tournament will play in the quarter final matchs. Portugal and Turkey from Group A , Croatia and Germany from Group B, Holland and Italy from Group C , Russia and Spain from Group D are the qualifiers for the Quarter final birth.

In the First quarter final match Group A topper Portugal will meet Group B runner up Germany on 19th friday at St Jakob-Park Basle,SUI. In the second quarter final Group B top scorer Croatia will meet Group A runner up Turkey on 20th saterday at Ernst Happel Stadium Vienna, Austria,AT.

In the Third quarter final match Group C top scorer Holland will meet Group D runner up Russia on 21st sunday at St Jakob-Park Basle,SUI. In the last quarter final Group D top scorer Spain will meet Group C runner up Italy on 22nd Monday at Ernst Happel Stadium Vienna,Austria,AT.

The UEFA General Secretary praised the main protagonists – the players and coaches – for the way that they have approached UEFA EURO 2008™ so far, with just three red cards in the 24 games. "UEFA is heavily promoting the motto of 'respect'; in high-level competition the stakes are high, but the players have a good respect for each other, for the game and for the referees," he said. "You're always going to get individual incidents, but I think we've noticed that this tournament is marked by a much better attitude all round.

THE GREEK TRAGEDY

Daniel guiza celebrates his goal

Existing European champion is ruled out from Euro cup 2008 with out listing in top 8 squads in Europe. In the last match Greek squad has been beaten by second string Spain team for 2-1. Anyway the catastrophe was already written just after loosing of first two matches against Russia and Sweeden. Greek squad’s statistics in the euro cup 2008 is utterly below except the only one moment in the match that was the goal of Angelos Charisteas in the 45th minute, tragically it was the opening goal of Greece in the UEFA Euro cup 2008.

Spain crowds wished-for just a tie against European champions but the squad celebrated their last match with the first international goal of Ruben de la Red and Daniel Guiza. Spain will meet Italy on Sunday in the Euro cup 2008 quarter final match at St Jakob-Park Basle,SUI.

Russia ahead by Hiddink's Magic

Russians drowned Sweeden for 2-0 in a crucial match enter into the list of top eight squad in UEFA Euro Cup 2008. Previously suspended Andrei Arshavin played well according to the gambling of Guus Hiddink and open a spectacular goal in the 50th minute in his account and catch the man of the match cap by all round perfomance . The very first goal of Russian was a collective effort in the 24 th minute Arshavin passed ball to Zyryanov on the right then Aleksander Anyukov rolled a pass to Pavlyucheno and he calmly finished his second goal of the tournment.

The battle with youth Russia was not at all good for Sweeden. Sweedish squard exactly failed to defend Arshavin and Pavlyucheno and could not finished the rare chances they get in the first half.

Here is what Guus Hiddink, Russia coach, said after the match.

"I am especially proud of my team for their achievements and for the progress we have made in a few days. I told them to fight or go home – they had to make that choice and they chose to fight and play with their hearts and I am proud of them. If you saw the performance tonight and how they tried to get the first goal as soon as possible, it was incredible. The only criticism I can make is that we didn't score enough – we should have punished them with a second goal at the end of the first half and in the second half we had a chance to make it 3-0. Andrei Arshavin is a player who makes quick decisions and who can create danger. He can turn left or right and knows immediately where the opponent is. He lacked match fitness but the reason I brought him here was that he could make a difference and we were aiming for him to make that difference in this, our last [Group D] game. The Swedes like it when you play with two strikers with their backs to defenders, but they don't like it when you attack their defensive midfield area and we tried to exploit that. [The Netherlands quarter-final] will be a special one because I know the players and their coach [Marco van Basten]. They have the big advantage of five days' rest."

ITALY ON CHARGE

French squard failed to stand up against World champions again as Assurians enters into Quarter Final from Group C of UEFA Euro cup 2008 . French's disaster arrived just after fouling Luca Toni in the 24th minute as Eric Abidal was sent off by Red Card and Andrea Pirlo lead Italy through penalty. In the 62 minute of second-half Daniele De Rossi's added one more goal for Italy.If Luca Toni could finished all his chances Italians may be win by about half dozen goals.

In the rough match Four French players and Three Assurians get yellow card. Only by yellow cards for Pirlo and Gennaro Gattuso will miss the quarter-final against Spain on 22 June in Vienna.

HOLLAND IN QUARTERS

Klaas-Jan Huntelar and Robin van Persie busted the quarter final dreams of Rumania in Berne , as Holland stands top in Group C with third successive victory.

Rumanian defenders did well in the first half of the match but after loose them to defend the traitors. Especially Adrianne muttu played alone as he can in the Rumanian camp but the destiny was against them. Goals of Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Robin van Persie inthe second half bring up impressive win for Holland.

Holland coach Marco van Basten maid some experiments in team line up as Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Robin van Persie played as strikers instead of Nisterl roi and Kuit. Martin Stocklenberge guard the goal post instead of Edwin wandarsar

CROETIA STILL UNBEATEN

Croetia beaten Poland for 1-0 in Klagenfurt to finish on maximum points in Group B and confirm their seat in quarter final of Euro cup 2008.

Klasnić was the man who triggerd on the 53 minute of the match set Croetia to happy ending.

"I'm happy just to be playing football again," said the Werder Bremen man. "I said before this game that I felt as though I have been give a new lease of footballing life, a second life, so what happened today feels like a dream to me. He continues "Some journalists said that we are the reserve team and that we just fool around in training but I think we have shown that even after not playing in the other two games we can do well".......

The Croatian coach was also praised him: "What can I say? We all prayed for him [during his health problems] but he had very strong faith throughout. Now he's not only healthy but he is a top player. He was Werder Bremen's top scorer [last season] in one of the strongest leagues in the world. It's the perfect success story."

BALLACK GUIDES GERMANY INTO QUARTERS

GERMANS ENTERED YET ANOTHER QUARTERS THROUGH BALLACK'S 49TH MINUTE FREE KICK. CO-HOSTS AUSTRIA ARE THE LOOSING SIDE. SCORES 1-0. GERMANY MAINTAINED THEIR BIG TOURNAMENT QUARTER SLOT RECORD WHILE AUSTRIA FOLLOWED SWIZTERLAND TO THE FENCE.


It was Ballack's 37 th international goal,he admitted his team have not been at their best in the last two matches but he is now looking forward to the next challenge. "Obviously we're happy to have made it to the quarter-finals, particularly after the difficult match against Croatia,"he added. "We had everything to lose when we were certainly favourites to win. You could tell that the team were not as agile because they had tensed up. I'm looking forward to playing Portugal again – we met them in the third-place play-off at the [2006 FIFA] World Cup and I'm looking forward to squaring off against them again. We didn't play as well as we wanted but I'm convinced this victory will give us the push to play even better against Portugal."

TURKEY TOLLS STUNNING WIN OVER CZECH

Turkey gain historic win over Czech Republic for 3-2 as enters in to quarter finals of UEFA Euro Cup 2008. Two goals in the 87 and 89 minute by Captain Nihat absolutely devastated Czech dreams after 75 minutes trail of 2-0. It was the second time Turkey had come from behind in the tournament – and after 18 matches they are the only team to have done so.
Yan Coller, Yarislave Placil gain goals for Czech in 34 and 62 minutes. Arden Turan opens account for Turkey in 75 minute of the match and it finished by the captain's effort in 87 and 89 minutes.

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Turkey’s recovered from defeat in their first game against portugal is amazing . Here is the words from Nihat. "Now we're in the quarter-finals. After the Portugal match only a few people really believed that we could make it, but we continue to make football history," Nihat said. "We know that we have to do some things better. But if we can win a match even if we play badly, then we can beat any team if we play well. This victory is a gift to our nation. These were the most important goals I have ever scored. We played a little bit slowly in the first half but then recovered from that situation after the interval. Now it is time to have fun. We are not afraid of anyone, we can beat Croatia in the quarter-finals."

SWIZ OUT WITH SUCCESS

SWIZ OUT WITH SUCCESS
Co- host Switzerland walked out with outstanding win over the Portugal for 2-0 in the uefa euro cup 2008. Two goals in the second half of the match from Hakan Yakin illuminate passing out of swiss and blame the second string team of Portugal. Swiss were already eliminated after losing their opening two group matches.


Match summery

Ball possession: Swiss 47% Portugal 53%
Goals:---------------- 2-------------0
Offsides:------------- 1 -------------6
Corners:------------- 5------------ -2
Shots on goal:-------- 8------------- 5
Fouls committed:--- 26------------- 27
Shots wide:---------- 5------------- 2
Yellow card:--------- 4------------- 4


Sent off to Swiz Coach Köbi Kuhn

Swiss paid send off to Kobi Kuhn with winning touch

“Of course I am extremely pleased [with the win] but there is also nostalgia because in the first two matches we deserved at least one point and, the way it looks now, we might have qualified for the quarter-finals. We are out but the team were able to make a gift to the fans who have always believed in them. We were excellent and I think this team will remain in their hearts. I didn't know anything about the banner but was touched to receive this expression of gratitude. During my time in charge we have been through some dire straits but, all in all, it has been a wonderful period. The legacy that [new coach] Ottmar Hitzfeld will find is a respectable one. We have a very young team but also some experienced players. There is room for improvement and once they have more experience, they will be even better. I wish Hitzfeld all the best. Now I will just be a fan of Switzerland and I would like to receive the kind of gift the players gave to the crowd tonight…..”

GREECE FACES CATASTROPHE

After both sides had lost their opening matches in UEFA EURO 2008™ Group D, the stakes were high at the Stadion Wals-Siezenheim, but Russia emerged victorious and knocked defending champions Greece out of the tournament.

SPAIN WON AT LAST MINUTE

David Villa scored in 92nd minite as Spain defeated a stubborn Sweden 2-1 at the Stadion Tivoli Neu in Innsbruck to sure their space in the UEFA EURO 2008™ quarter-finals as Group D winners.

In the tough match they maintained equal share about 60 minutes with the goals of Torres(15min.) and Ibramovic(34min).

orange, orange,orange and snieder orange

Holland thrashed world cup finalist france by 4-1. kuyt, van percy, robben, and snieder are the scorers for holland. second half substitute robben banged one and behind other two. henry left footed the lonely one for france. now the oranges are placed in quarters. they demolished both world cup winner and runner-up.

Italy in danger

Romania hold italy on 1-1 draw. adriyan mutu is the scorer for romania and he also missed a last minites penalty. italy's quarter hope is now depent upon the last match against france.

Portugal's Fans Club

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Austria holds there with 90th minite penalty

contraversial last minite penalty results over polland's 2 point. score-polland-1 austria-1.

croasia bagged a big win over germany

Croasia stuns Germany on euro 2008. Croasia injured twice over Lucas Podolski's consolidative lonely one. now Germany's chances are on questable trouble.

PORTUGAL IN QUARTERS

Portugal won in UEFA euro cup against Czech republic for 3-1 as qualified for the quarter final. Deco had given Portugal an eighth-minute lead with the support of Ronaldo.




9 minutes later, Sionko equalized for the Czechs with a powerful header.
In the second half,Ronaldo provide a sublime finish from the edge of the area in the 63rd minute.
Portugal scored one more goal by Quaresma from the gifted pass of Ronaldo in the 90th minute.

see the route of gole

Team Portugal's victory on Euro Cup 2008

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BFu23VcckOU

POLISH SQUAD FOR UEFA EURO CUP 2008

The provisional team of Poland for the UEFA Euro Cup 2008 is follows as Poland's coach Leo Beenhakker announced.

Forwards : Euzebiusz Smolarek (Real Racing Club Santander, Spain), Maciej Żurawski (Larissa FC, Greece), Tomasz Zahorski (Górnik Zabrze, Poland), Radosław Matusiak (Wisła Kraków, Poland), Marek Saganowski (Southampton FC, Poland).

Midfielders : Dariusz Dudka (Wisła Kraków, Poland), Wojciech Łobodziński (Wisła Kraków, Poland), Jakub Błaszczykowski (BV Borussia Dortmund, Germany), Mariusz Lewandowski (FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Ukraine), Rafał Murawski (Lech Poznań, Poland), Łukasz Garguła (GKS Bełchatów, Poland), Jacek Krzynówek (VfL Wolfsburg, Germany), Radosław Majewski (Groclin Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Poland), Michał Pazdan (Górnik Zabrze, Poland), Roger Guerreiro (Legia Warszawa, Poland).

Defenders : Jacek Bąk (FK Austria Wien, Austria), Marcin Wasilewski (RSC Anderlecht, Belgium), Paweł Golański (FC Steaua Bucureşti, Romania), Mariusz Jop (FC Moskva, Russia), Adam Kokoszka (Wisła Kraków, Poland), Jakub Wawrzyniak (Legia Warszawa, Poland), Michał Żewłakow (Olympiacos CFP, Greece), Grzegorz Bronowicki (FK Crvena Zvezda, Serbia).

Goalkeepers : Artur Boruc (Celtic FC, Scotland), Tomasz Kuszczak (Manchester United FC, England), Łukasz Fabiański (Arsenal FC, England).

Poland's first match will be on June, the 8th, against Germany, in Klagenfurt in Austria, at 20:45.

Poland and Ukraine will be hosting the next UEFA Euro Cup in 2012.

JOACHIM LOW ANNOUNCED GERMAN SUAD FOR EURO CUP 2008

 GermanyJoachim Löw announced recently a provisional list of German football players for the Uefa Euro cup 2008.

The Squad of Germany for the UEFA Euro Cup 2008 is as follows:

Forwards: Miroslav Klose (FC Bayern München, Germany), Lukas Podolski (FC Bayern München, Germany), Mario Gómez (VfB Stuttgart, Germany), Kevin Kuranyi (FC Schalke 04, Germany), Oliver Neuville (VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach, Germany), Patrick Helmes (1. FC Köln, Germany).

Midfielders : Michael Ballack (Chelsea FC, England), Thomas Hitzlsperger (VfB Stuttgart, Germany), Simon Rolfes (Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Germany), Torsten Frings (Werder Bremen, Germany), Bastian Schweinsteiger (FC Bayern München, Germany), Piotr Trochowski (Hamburger SV, Germany), Tim Borowski (Werder Bremen, Germany), Jermaine Jones (FC Schalke 04, Germany), David Odonkor (Real Betis Balompié, Spain), Marko Marin (VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach, Germany).

Defenders : Christoph Metzelder (Real Madrid CF, Spain), Per Mertesacker (Werder Bremen, Germany), Philipp Lahm (FC Bayern München, Germany), Arne Friedrich (Hertha BSC Berlin, Germany), Marcell Jansen (FC Bayern München, Germany), Clemens Fritz (Werder Bremen, Germany), Heiko Westermann (FC Schalke 04, Germany).

Goalkeepers : Jens Lehmann (Arsenal FC, England), Robert Enke (Hannover 96, Germany), René Adler (Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Germany).


Germany is in the Group B of the UEFA Euro Cup 2008 along Poland, Croatia and Austria. Thefirst game will be against Poland on June the 8th at 20:45 in Klagenfurt, at the stadium Wörthersee, in Austria.