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UEFA European Championship Winners

Name the team that won the UEFA European Championship in each selected year.
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First submittedJuly 1, 2012
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Year
Champion
Runner-Up
2024
Spain
England
2020
Italy
England
2016
Portugal
France
2012
Spain
Italy
2008
Spain
Germany
2004
Greece
Portugal
2000
France
Italy
1996
Germany
Czech Republic
1992
Denmark
Germany
Year
Champion
Runner-Up
1988
Netherlands
Soviet Union
1984
France
Spain
1980
Germany
Belgium
1976
Czechoslovakia
Germany
1972
Germany
Soviet Union
1968
Italy
Yugoslavia
1964
Spain
Soviet Union
1960
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
91 Comments
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Level 78
Jun 25, 2014
BOO YAH!!! I knew exactly 0 of these, but managed to get them all by guessing countries that are good at soccer.
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Level 22
Jul 11, 2016
I doubt you guessed Czechoslovakia
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Level 65
Jul 11, 2016
Czechslovkia is pretty easy to guess, before they dissolved they had a very good footballing history including 2 world cup finals. Denmark and Greece are probably the hardest ones to guess if you really don't know anything about the Euros since they aren't know as good teams, but since Greece was a massive shock and Denmark famously only qualified for the tournament in the first place because Yugoslavia dissolved they are pretty famous results.
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Level 39
Jun 21, 2024
Denmark was pretty crazy. They won after not even qualifying in 1992!
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Level 88
May 10, 2018
Czech Republic appears as a runner-up one year, and seeing Yugoslavia and Soviet Union reminds you to try guessing countries that no longer exist. That's how I got it. I only got Greece by randomly guessing European countries after I had gotten everything else.
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Level 19
Feb 10, 2021
I can tell that from "soccer"
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Level 77
Jul 13, 2021
It's "football" not "soccer".
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Level 71
Jul 14, 2021
It's both.
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Level 79
Jul 19, 2021
literally the only place where it is called soccer is in america and they don't even really care about it (so it should just be named football)
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Level 67
Jul 21, 2021
Literally everyone else called it soccer until a few years ago.
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Level 69
Apr 23, 2022
literally no one called it soccer except for us. still say whichever one you want :p
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Level 78
Sep 27, 2023
You would think people on a trivia site would know the history of the name "soccer." The game was called soccer by the brits WAY before the Americans started calling it that. It was short for Association Football, or Assoc. Much like they call rugby football "Rugger" they called Assoc. Football "Soccer." So the Americans started using that word, then apparently the Brits didn't want to anymore (probably because little brother was copying them) so they went to Football and rugby football went to just Rugby. So any European that complains about Americans using the word Soccer, blame England.
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Level 67
Jul 15, 2024
People from the USA always bring up this fact but the word "soccer" was only used by the rich upper clases. It was never *the* name for the game like people imply, it was a small majority of people that weren't the demographic playing or watching it at the time.

It's nothing like your patronising "little brother" comment implies, most people have *always* called it football.

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Level 51
Jul 18, 2024
I had never even heard the word soccer until I started consuming lots of American content on the internet. It's always been football
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Level 80
Jul 19, 2024
It's Association Football. There are many varieties of Football - besides Association Football (Soccer): there is Australian Rules, Irish Football, Rugby League, American Football and the best of all - Rugby Union. Probably many others that I don't know about.
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Level 47
Jul 19, 2024
Are you employed as a clerk typist by any chance?
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Level 24
Jul 28, 2014
Can;t you except Soviet Union as Russia. Other quizzes have Soviet Union as the offical answer but they except Russia.
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Level 69
Feb 26, 2016
Agree some quizzes have it, it's a handy little add on to help you out but not necessary. Some quizzes get way too lenient with spelling and the likes too. And it would be accept not except. Rabbitohs.
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Level ∞
Jul 10, 2016
Generally, featured quizzes don't accept Russia for the Soviet Union.
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Level 67
Jul 15, 2024
This was years ago but Russia do have a European title according to UEFA, despite the fact that it was the Soviet Union at that time.
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Level 74
Jul 16, 2024
If I may add, it does make sense in those quizzes, I'm sure of that. But when it comes to football (or soccer, call it as you want) specifically, FIFA officially considers Russia, Serbia and Czechia as sucessor states of the USSR, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia respectively. So all their titles and achievements are inherited.

Don't know if you already knew it, but for the sake of the argument in favor of accepting these as answers, here it goes.

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Level 74
Jul 16, 2024
Ah, for example, as you also know it, everything achieved by Germany in football before 1990 was as West Germany. And the quiz does justice in considering Germany as a correct answer for 1972 and 1980, so should be Russia for 1960.
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Level 62
Aug 8, 2024
Because West Germany and Germany are colloquial names for the same country - "Federal Republic of Germany" while a country colloquially called East Germany was called "German Democratic Republic" which was absorbed into Federal Republic of Germany thus no need for West in front of Germany anymore. Same thing would apply if North or South Korea were to absorb the other one in similar manner.

As for Soviet Union, It was a country that dissolved into 15 different countries. While it existed, Russia was about only half of its population. There weren't any distinction between them though - whether you were Georgian, Uzbek or Russian, you won a medal for the Soviet Union and in team sports they weren't separated. When USSR won I think a 1/4 of their squad was made out of Ukrainians, Georgians, Kazakhs and the rest were Russians. Hence there is a need to distinguish whether it was the Soviet Union or one of the 15 countries post 1992.

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Level 44
Jan 11, 2023
accept*
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Level 39
Jul 16, 2024
“Except” means “other than” or “exclude.”

“Accept” means “consent” or “include.”

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Level 56
May 24, 2015
I'm surprised England has never won
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Level 64
Jul 11, 2016
Heck, they haven't even made it into a finals match.
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Level 79
Jul 12, 2021
Now they have
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Level 85
Jul 15, 2024
Twice!! 😁
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Level 39
Jul 16, 2024
Darn you, offside rule! How are you supposed to play the ball with a knee hair? That is LITERALLY ALL THAT PLAYED THE SPANISH PLAYER ONSIDE! You can’t play the ball with knee hair, only with the knee. So, of course, they ruled it off of the England defender’s knee hair. I swear, UEFA has something against England.
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Level 64
Aug 12, 2021
The irony of your comment, said on the day england played in the finals lmfao.....
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Level 56
Jun 17, 2022
hahahahaha this is golden
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Level 79
Jul 11, 2016
I find it interesting that people expect England to do well--as if their colonial, world power heritage somehow predestines football greatness.
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Level 60
Jul 11, 2016
Inventing the game and having won the major trophy (the World Cup) also suggests they might have won it at some point.
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Level 66
Jul 11, 2016
I would say it is mostly based on the quality of the premier league. Unfortunately it does not always mean that the teams in the national leagues draw a lot of talent from their own country, but it does generate a greater affection for the sport and in that way more boys that play and eventually turn out to be good.
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Level 79
Jul 11, 2016
The history is actually rather complex - a rudimentary form of football was English, but the idea of moving the ball towards the opponent’s goal by passing it from player to player was invented in Scotland. http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/04/02/no-england-did-not-invent-football-soccer-as-we-know-it/

I take your point about the Premier League. It does seem that a lot of players in that league did go to the national teams of other countries, but you would think that there would be more filtering down with all of the money, talent, and attention that the league receives.

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Level 39
Jul 16, 2024
In the original rules of the sport (created in 1863) forward passes were forbidden. You could only pass backwards or sideways. This led to the early formation of a 1-2-7, designed so that many players would always be forward, able to receive a sideways or backwards pass. Players had to do a “charge-dribble” to move the ball forwards. In 1867, the offside rule was introduced, and forward passes were allowed for the first time.
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Level 78
Jul 15, 2024
I have no idea how you even drew the connection between football and colonialism. England is well known to be a football nation, i.e. a country in which football is popular and that is quite good at it. There seems to be absolutely no correlation between colonialism and football skills. Uruguay, Ghana and Croatia are quite good; these countries never had colonies and don't even have much else in common either.
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Level 60
Jul 17, 2021
we got very close
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Level 72
Jul 10, 2016
Just took this quiz and found I was the first to take it since reset. 100% correct and beat 0% of other quiz takers. That's quite funny.
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Level 59
Jul 11, 2016
Just guessing each of the answers I was able to get them all. Czechoslovakia was the hardest to guess
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Level 68
Jul 11, 2016
Yeah, Italy Germany France Spain USSR Italy Spain France USSR Italy Spain France USSR Italy Spain France USSR
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Level 59
Jul 11, 2016
You can also see a runner ups quiz here
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Level 76
Jul 11, 2016
Guessing Czechoslovakia took a while. Listed all the European countries I could think of except Andorra and Malta. Both Germanies and whatnot too.
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Level 23
Jul 11, 2016
Congratulations, neighbors. A well-deserved victory for Portugal!!
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Level 74
Jul 11, 2016
Technically the 1972 and 1980 were won by West Germany.
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Level 59
Jul 11, 2016
West Germany is still accepted
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Level 66
Jul 12, 2021
Technically, West Germany and Germany are the same thing.
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Level 77
Jul 12, 2021
Not when there was an East Germany.
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Level 71
Jul 12, 2021
East Germany joined the country that was called West Germany at the time but essentially the Germany of today is the continuation of West Germany.
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Level 70
Jan 29, 2022
Kalleanon and MCMLXXXII are both right.
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Level 67
Jul 15, 2024
The titles are attributed by UEFA to modern-day Germany, much like Czechoslovakia's title is attributed to Czechia and Slovakia.
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Level 80
Jan 10, 2018
I know very little about football but still got 11/15 and 2 points by rapidly typing all the major European footballing countries for each answer (I would have done even better if I had remembered the existence of Czechoslovakia). I suggest reducing the time to 3 or even 2 minutes to prevent cheats like me getting points for things they know nothing about.
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Level 35
Jun 8, 2019
Wasn't 76 the year we got the Panenka(?) Penalty?
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Level 75
Aug 27, 2021
Yup, exactly.
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Level 94
Oct 21, 2019
I know the clues are former countries, but there is normally a note in the instructions that some answers are also former countries
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Level 84
Jul 11, 2021
Haha, it's coming Rome!
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Level 70
Jul 13, 2021
It definitely did go Rome, unfortunately.

Rashford's penalty was a shocker. If it had just been a fraction of an inch to the right it would have been a cracker of a goal and probably have won us the tournament.

Nevermind, I hope he redeems himself (as well as Sancho and Saka) in the World Cup! They did their best and we still love them

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Level 71
Jul 14, 2021
The same fraction of an inch to the left and it would have be an even bigger miss. The point is: it didn't go in. Italy was better under pressure. That's it.
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Level 39
Jul 16, 2024
3 years later, PTSD kicks in.

England loses again.

*Internal screaming*

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Level 94
Jul 12, 2021
The behaviour of our England ‘fans’ leaves me so ashamed I am glad they lost. Violence, racism, rioting, vandalism, drunkenness, domestic violence … etc. The judicial system gives a ‘pass’ to virtually any behaviour, short of murder, if it’s related to supporting England!
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Level 54
Jul 12, 2021
Plus Pointing a Laser into a Opposing Goalie to stop him from holding on to the penalty instead of allowing a rebound.

But I'm sure most English fans are NOT any of the above. Most are passionate but not crazy. There are just a few "extreme" ones that must be stopped, it's just a soccer match for heaven sake.

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Level 70
Jul 13, 2021
I'm an England supporter and have been disgusted by the ugly behaviour of the small minority of racist, ignorant thugs who have tarnished our reputation and spoiled a moment we should be proud of. Instead of focusing on those few idiots can we draw more attention to how the majority of England fans have responded with an avalanche of love and support for the Black players as well as denouncing the racists. They do not define us and they should not be allowed any more attention. Sign the petition going around now for a lifetime ban on racist fans.
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Level 79
Jul 14, 2021
It's a strange world where, between England and Italy, it's the former that gets attention for bad sportsmanship and racism, and Italy wins the tournament playing the most beautiful and daring football.
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Level 70
Jul 15, 2021
Italy got 5 yellow cards just in the final. The England team were yellow carded 4 times during the entire tournament. And Jorginho should have been sent off for his foul on Grealish.

But, no, we are the bad guys as usual :D

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Level 59
Jul 13, 2021
I feel exactly the same, it was a horrible feeling when it came to Rashford's penalty (and as the other takers became apparent). I wanted them to score not so much because England would win, but because I knew what would happen if black players "caused" our defeat.
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Level ∞
Jul 13, 2021
I'm pretty sure that all countries have obnoxious fans. The salient difference between nations is that England has a greater degree of self-loathing and thus its media focus on the behavior of a small minority of idiots to the exclusion of everything positive.

I love to knock England down a peg as much as the next guy, but overall, the English side played brilliantly. People should be happy about that. Instead, people whose only purpose in life is to stir up outrage were already writing stories about racism before the game was even over. England is not more racist that other countries. In fact, they are quite a bit less racist than most. Don't fall prey to the outrage machine.

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Level 54
Jul 13, 2021
Agree. They should be happy that they beat Germany in a major tournament for once......
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Level 59
Jul 14, 2021
Yeah to be fair that did occur to me - media actively looking for instances of racism in order to report it and get people wound up.
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Level 70
Jul 15, 2021
I do fear we are becoming the America of Europe :(
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Level 86
Jul 15, 2024
"...the outrage machine."

The first step in avoiding becoming a useful idiot is realizing that this exists. Outrage is big business. Be careful what you allow the media to manipulate you into becoming outraged over.

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Level 48
Jul 12, 2021
Why do they write Euro 2020 when it is 2021?
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Level 76
Jul 12, 2021
Because it was postponed, not renamed.
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Level 71
Jul 14, 2021
Yup. Same goes for Tokyo 2020, which will start in just over a week.
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Level 83
Oct 7, 2022
Future quiz questions
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Level 56
Jul 15, 2021
They don't want to spend more money rebranding everything again so they kept the name the same.
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Level 55
Jul 14, 2024
If typing „Germany" is accepted for West Germany's wins in 1980 and 1972 then Russia for USSR in 1960 should be eligible as well.
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Level 85
Jul 15, 2024
Generally on Jetpunk, Germany is considered the same country as West Germany. Russia is not considered the same country as the USSR.

Whether that's as it should be, is perhaps up for debate, but that's the general standard across all featured quizzes on Jetpunk, so when on this site, that's what you should expect, unless indicated otherwise.

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Level 69
Jul 15, 2024
Agreed on Jetpunk rules, however the Russia National team is considered the successor of the USSR/ Soviet Union team. As is Serbia to the Yugoslavia team, and Both Czechia and Slovakia considered successors to the Czechoslovakia team.
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Level 74
Jul 15, 2024
As an England fan this quiz is a bitter pill to swallow after last night but got 100 percent anyway
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Level 74
Jul 15, 2024
I feel you. As a Frenchman, it still hurts having to type in Portugal for 2016…
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Level 77
Jul 15, 2024
Arriba España!
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Level 50
Jul 15, 2024
Turns out that the English couldn't stop the 11 Spanish bombers...
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Level 92
Jul 15, 2024
I’m very strongly with others above in pointing out the logical inconsistency of allowing Germany for West Germany, when other defunct nations such as the USSR or Czechoslovakia are treated differently. All three of these countries differed both territorially and ideologically from their modern counterparts. The pool of available players was drastically altered in each case. They are not the same countries. Even the desire to suggest that they are suggests unconscious bias.

Have a look at Wikipedia to see who won the tournament in 1980 for example. There is no ambiguity here.

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Level 69
Jul 15, 2024
But UEFA & FIFA consider the Germany national mens team successors of the West Germany team, and inherit their honours and records. Just as they do of Serbia for Yugoslavias records; Russia for USSR/ Soviet Unions' and both Czechia and Slovakia for Czechoslovakias records.
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Level 68
Jul 15, 2024
The state never changed when West-Germany became Germany. The only thing that changed is that East-Germany joined and the capital was moved to Berlin. Even the name was the same "Bundesrepublik Deutschland"
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Level 51
Jul 15, 2024
why is czechia not accepted then
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Level 38
Jul 15, 2024
Because it was Czechoslovakia back then and there were even more Slovak players than Czech
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Level 39
Jul 15, 2024
Knee hairs. It was literally the knee hairs of the English defender that played the Spanish attacker onside so the Spanish could win.

Why is it always England? Why can’t they win for once?

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Level 74
Jul 15, 2024
During the 2000s decade, they had a great team with Beckham, Lampard, Gerrard, Rooney, Scholes etc. to name a few. Not to mention world-class defenders such as Ferdinand, Neville, Terry and A. Cole. I am surprised that with such outstanding players (even better than today’s team in my opinion!), they never made it past the quarter finals of any big tournament…
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Level 30
Jul 16, 2024
Galatasaray?