[aLbErTo]

i think it's time we shut the "road to euro.." topic (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Croatia team is known, Slaven Bilic made his list:

GK:
Stipe Pletikosa, Vedran Runje, Mario Galinović
DEFENCE:
Robert Kovač, Dario Å imić, Danijel Pranjić, Dario Knežević, Josip Å imunić, Hrvoje Vejić, Vedran Ćorluka, Nikola Pokrivač
MIDFIELD:
Niko Kranjčar, Luka Modrić, Ivan Rakitić, Niko Kovač, Jerko Leko, Darijo Srna, Ognjen Vukojević (Dinamo Z.)
ATTACK:
Ivan Klasnić, Igor Budan, Mladen Petrić, Ivica Olić, Nikola Kalinić (Hajduk S.)

BACKUP:
Anas Sharbini(Attacking midfielder-Rijeka), Manuel Pamić (Left back - Red Bull Salzburg)

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This post has been edited by aLbErTo: May 5 2008, 11:38 PM

[LaPalma]

Germanies squad for the Euro:

Tor  Jens Lehmann  FC Arsenal  10.11.1969 
Tor  Robert Enke  Hannover 96  24.08.1977 
Tor  René Adler  Bayer Leverkusen  15.01.1985 
Abwehr  Arne Friedrich  Hertha BSC  29.05.1979 
Abwehr  Clemens Fritz  Werder Bremen  07.12.1980 
Abwehr  Christoph Metzelder  Real Madrid  05.11.1980 
Abwehr  Per Mertesacker  Werder Bremen  29.09.1984 
Abwehr  Marcell Jansen  Bayern München  04.11.1985 
Abwehr  Philipp Lahm  Bayern München  11.11.1983 
Abwehr  Heiko Westermann  Schalke 04  14.08.1983 
Mittelfeld  Michael Ballack  FC Chelsea  26.09.1976 
Mittelfeld  Torsten Frings  Werder Bremen  22.11.1976 
Mittelfeld  Thomas Hitzlsperger  VfB Stuttgart  05.04.1982 
Mittelfeld  Bastian Schweinsteiger  Bayern München  01.08.1984 
Mittelfeld  Simon Rolfes  Bayer Leverkusen  21.01.1982 
Mittelfeld  Piotr Trochowski  Hamburger SV  22.03.1984 
Mittelfeld  Tim Borowski  Werder Bremen  02.05.1980 
Mittelfeld  Jermaine Jones  FC Schalke 04  03.11.1981 
Mittelfeld  David Odonkor  Betis Sevilla  21.02.1984 
Mittelfeld  Marko Marin  Borussia Mönchengladbach  13.03.1989 
Sturm  Miroslav Klose  Bayern München  09.06.1978 
Sturm  Mario Gomez  VfB Stuttgart  10.07.1985 
Sturm  Kevin Kuranyi  Schalke 04  02.03.1982 
Sturm  Lukas Podolski  Bayern München  04.06.1985 
Sturm  Oliver Neuville  Borussia Mönchengladbach  01.05.1973 
Sturm  Patrick Helmes  1. FC Köln  01.03.1984 

The biggest surprise is that Valencias Timo Hildebrand didn't even make it to the squad. René Adler takes, well deserved, his place. He's our future on the GK position. The other surprise is Gladbachs talent Marko Marin. He's only 19 and wasn't called up yet. But I think it's a good choice. We need players who are strong in 1 on1 situations.
All in all our squad is definetely better than the one we had in 2006. Especially when I'm looking at our forwards. At the WC we only had Klose and Podolski who were sufficient. Now we also have Kuranyi and Gomez. Colognes talent Patrick Helmes isn't bad either.
Well, we still have to rely on Ballack and Frings. They're by far the most important players in our squad.

The favourites for me are: Italy, France, Germany, Portugal. In that order. Italy and France simply have more depth than we do. That said I'm pretty sure Porty and me already agreed on a Germany-Portugal final 2 years ago (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/innocent.gif)

This post has been edited by LaPalma: May 16 2008, 06:18 PM