Euro 2008 preview

 

The Euro Cup is the major event in the world of professional soccer just after the World Cup and the UEFA Champions league.

So who are favorites to come up with the trophy this year? Well many experts and critics are pointing to Germany and Italy, but I would say that the lattest have the more chances to win the Euro 2008.

Germany has Miroslav Klose, and Italy has Luca Toni, whom are team mates at the Bayern Munich, and the italian is surely in better shape than Klose.

Miroslav has received the Golden Boot the last two World Cups but is currently going through a streak of injuries that is leaving him under the shadow of Toni.

So the only player to be trusted in Germany as of now is Michael Ballack, who led Chelsea to win the UEFA Champions League.

The event will take place in Austria and Switzerland, and according to information from the associated press, all tickets have being sold for the whole event, of course a big part is currently in the hands of black market dealers who will try to sell those tickets for even the double of the original price.

What about the groups?

The most difficult is pot 3, with Germany, Portugal, Spain, and the only team that can be qualified as an underdog: Romania.

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo is the face of his country, and so he coming motivated after winning the Premier League with Manchester United, and Spain’s All Stars Cesc Fabregas and Fernando Torres both are coming from having a great season with Arsenal and Liverpool respectively.

While on Pot 2, we find Italy as the toughest team with Croatia, Czech Republic and Sweden as the ones with the mission of beating the current World Cup champions.

The Netherlands also have it easy with hosts Austria and Switzerland along with 2004 Euro cup winners Greece as the teams to beat in pot 1.

Last but not least, we got Poland, Turkey and Russia who will battle against the World Cup runner up France in pot 4.

So as I said before, I have Italy as the possible winner of the cup, and if they can actually do it, this might as well become one of the best eras in Italy’s soccer history.