EURO 2008 Awards

Another awards ceremony is provided by your dear blogger. Another list is here. Enjoy!

Best Young Player

1-Luka Modric (Croatia)
2-Francesc Fábregas (Spain)
3-Arda Turan (Turkey)

Worst Young Player

1-Bafetimbi Gomis (France)
2-Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)
3-Johan Vonhlanten (Switzerland

Best Goal
1-Holland 4-1 France by Wesley Sneijder
2-Spain 1-0 Germany by Fernando Torres
3-Turkey 3-2 Czech Republic by Nihat

Best Match
1-Turkey 3-2 Czech Republic
2-Holland 3-0 Italy
3-Italy 0-0 Spain

Worst Match
I had the dishonor of watching the replay later on of the Swedish team. After the French game I actually did enjoy the EURO and I think we watched excellent matches, thus the French side earned the most boring performance.
1-Romania 1-1 France
2-Greece 0-2 Sweeden
3-Greece 0-1 Russia

Best Revelation

1-Andrei Arshavin (Russia)
2-Colin Kazim Richards (Turkey)
3-Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russia)

Best Player

1-David Villa (Spain)

2-Andrei Arshavin (Russia)

3-Wesley Sneider (Holland)

Worst Player

1-Angelos Basinas (Greece)
2-William Gallas (France)
3-Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

Best Goalkeeper

Iker Casillas (Spain)
Iker rose above his best quality and lifting the final trophy at Wien. He had the help of a good and solid defense block but his prowness and security gave him the post.

Best Defender

Servet Cetin (Turkey)
Servet showed the pure force of the Turkish side, with movility and strenght even playing with an injury!

Best Midfielder

Wesley Sneijder (Holland)
The organizer of the New Holland style finally capitalized his good season.

Best Striker


Actually the division in these award was for David Villa (4 goals), but last goal from Fernando Torres and three game thriller Arshavin stunned the Spaniard. I will give this awards to these three players.

Tournament's starting XI
Goalkeeper- Iker Casillas (Spain)
Defenders- Sergio Ramos (Spain), Phillip Lahm (Germany), Carlos Marchena (Spain), Servet Cetin (Turkey)
Midfielders- Cesc Fabregas (Spain), Wesley Sneijder (Holland), David Silva (Spain), *Lukas Podolski (Germany).
Strikers- David Villa (Spain), Andrei Arshavin (Russia).
Bench- Jens Lehmann, Robert Kovac, Luka Modric, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Roman Pavlyuchenko.