Austria coach Josef Hickersberger becomes more hopeful for his team’s chances after a 1-1 draw with Nigeria and a 5-1 win over Malta in recent days:
“We have set ourselves a big goal. We want to reach the quarter-finals and in the last days I have become more optimistic. I know it was not ideal that [...]
June 2, 2008
Soccer Spin: Hickersberger’s Hopes
June 2, 2008
Cannavaro Injury Scare
Former European Footballer of the Year Fabio Cannavaro was taken to hospital on Monday after sustaining an ankle injury during the first Italian national team training session of the week in Austria.
Reuters report that the Italian World Cup-winning skipper collided with Giorgio Chiellini and was carried off on a stretcher.
“We will have to see but [...]
June 2, 2008
ESPN Classic Euromania: Great, but…
I’ve avidly consumed ESPN Classic’s vintage football output since the channel’s inception on Sky 442 in March, 2006. Euromania, a season of classic European Championship matches, was perhaps its best yet. Showing the best part of an hour’s worth of highlights (well, about 47 minutes when you strip out the ads) of great games from [...]
June 2, 2008
Archive Football: BBCi Euro Classics
The BBC, past masters at going that extra mile when setting the scene for major international football tournaments, have done it again with their Euro Classics selection of memorable matches from past European Championships.
Broadcast on the “red button”, also known as BBC Sports Interactive, from 10.20 last night, great games from tournaments as far [...]
June 2, 2008
Vieira Struggling? Flamini Flies In
France’s Patrick Vieira, a shadow of the player he was some years ago, may miss Euro 2008. On Monday, Milan’s Matthieu Flamini, a standby player, was called to join the squad which is about to fly to Switzerland where Raymond Domenech’s side open their campaign against Romania. The BBC report spokesman Yann Le Guillard saying, [...]
June 2, 2008
Euro 84: France 1-0 Denmark
The first in a regular series of vignette’s recalling some of the greatest moments in the history of the European Championship.
France opened the 1984 edition of the European Championship finals in Paris against a nascent Denmark team that had eliminated England in qualification.
Having reached the semi-finals of the 1982 World Cup in Spain, France were [...]
June 2, 2008
Number of the Day: 6
The number of finals matches since Germany, favourites for the Henri Delaunay trophy, last won a game at the European Championship.
Since beating the Czech Republic at Wembley in June 1996 to win Euro 96, Germany have drawn 1-1 with Romania in Liege, lost 1-0 to Alan Shearer’s goal for England in Charleroi, and collapsed 3-0 [...]
