with the king and queen as well as the prime minister of spain looking on, the spanish team beat germany 1:0 to take the trophy for the euro 2008 championship. fernando torres scored the winning goal in the first half. spain never let germany in the game. it was a virtual replay of the spain russia game.
spain beats russia 3 to 0
26 June 2008
spain has spent euro 2008 breaking curses. first, they beat italy for the first time in 88 years. second, they moved beyond the quarterfinal phase of the european championship for the first time in 24 years.
at 56 minutes spain leads russia 1:0
26 June 2008
the second bit of the semis for euro 2008 is being played out today. at the moment, spain is leading russia 1:0. in terms of natural talent, spain is probably the team. but the russian team is talented too and the players have worked very hard to get to the semis. so its not over yet.
lahm pulls out a winner at 89 minute mark
26 June 2008
philip lahm, who survived germany’s disasterous 2004 european championship foray, pushed in the winning goal at the near 90 minute mark to help germany break the tie with turkey and avoid playing extratime and possibly a penalty shootout.
chelsea wants deco and arshavin
23 June 2008
according to highly reliable sources like the sun and the daily star, chelsea may be putting in a bid for portugal’s deco and for russia’s andrei arshavin. for quite hefty sums.
spain breaks 24 year curse
22 June 2008
it’s been 24 years since the spainish football team has made it past the quarterfinals in a tournament. they beat italy 4:2 in penalties, having played to a 0:0 draw in regular play and extra-time. spain meet russia in the semi-finals and germany play turkey.
arshavin at barely 5ft 8 seals the fate of holland
21 June 2008
russian, andrei arshavin, who sat out the first 2 matches of euro 2008 due to a suspension, came back in the game against sweden to score the winning goal that took the russian team into the quarterfinals. in the game against the netherlands, the man who stands but 1.72m scored russia’s third goal in extra-time. guus hiddink, the dutchman who also coached the best out of australia and took the country to the quarterfinals of the last world cup, will most likely catch shit from his countrymen.
russia rolls over the netherlands
21 June 2008
the russia team beat the netherlands 3:1 in extra time. they led 1:0 up until the 86th minute when van nistelrooy scored although he was off-sides. roman abramovich turned up in the VIP boxes for the game.
turkey routes croatia in penalty shootout
20 June 2008
in the second game of the quarterfinals of the euro 2008 football championship, turkey and croatia played to a 0 : 0 tie. in extra time, Klasnic scored a goal for croatia at 118 minutes, 2 minutes later, right at the bell, semih tied the whole thing up. then the two teams went into penalty kick mode. turkey won the penalty shoot out 4:1. perhaps the croatian team should’ve watched this video on the guardian website about how to take a spot-kick.
turkey are set to play germany in the semi-finals this wednesday.
