Euro 2024 is only 48 hours away from its opening. It’s time to look at its main characters, the players who make up the various participating teams. 622 professionals who leave us all kinds of data, collected in this list.
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Which team is the ‘oldest’ and which is the ‘youngest’?
There are well-known veterans in the Euro Cup and some of them are in the Scottish team. The team led by Steve Clark (pictured) does not contain some of the oldest players, but its core has been 30 or older, with up to nine players over that barrier. The average age of a Scotland player is 28.8 years.
At the other extreme is the Czech Republic, with 25.8 years. It is the only team below the 26-year-old bar. Adam Hložek, who left this year with Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen, will turn 22 in the summer. This is an example of the new blood offered by the Czechs.
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Who is the youngest player and who is the oldest?
Lamine Yamal, Barça winger and great pearl of the Spanish National Team, broke all the precocity records that existed. And he has done it in ‘Roja’ too. He is the junior of the competition and also has the chance to become the youngest player to play in a European Championship. If he plays this Saturday against Croatia, he will tie the record at 16 years and 338 days. Kacper Kozłowski, from Poland, topped this ranking in 2021, at the age of 17 years and 246 days.
The oldest player in the Euro Cup is an old acquaintance of the League. This is Pepe (pictured), former Real Madrid center back and currently at Porto. He is the only 40-year-old player in the tournament. If he plays a minute, he will break the mark of Hungarian goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly, the ‘oldest’ in the Euro Cup at the age of 40 years and 86 days. If Pepe plays on the first day, he will do so at the age of 41 years and 113 days.
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Who is the tallest footballer and which is the shortest?
Vanja Milinković-Savić, goalkeeper for Torino and the Serbian National Team (photo), was the only player taller than two meters among those who traveled to Germany. Specifically, it measures 202 centimeters. Quite a tall goalkeeper.
At the other extreme is Callum Styles, an international midfielder for Hungary albeit of English origin (he was born in Bury and plays for Barnsley). The young 24-year-old player is almost 1.67 meters tall. He is one of five players under 70 meters, along with Romano Schmid (Austria), Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland), Andrija Živković (Serbia) and Sandro Altunashvili (Georgia).
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Which is the highest selection and which is the ‘lowest’?
Knowing the height of Vanja Milinković-Savić, it is easy to imagine that Serbia is the tallest team. And it is, with an average height of 186.8 centimeters on average. Only Denmark and the Czech Republic exceeded 1.86.
And which combination has the most ‘low’? Luis de la Fuente’s Spain (photo) refocuses its biggest core of shorter players. The national footballer offers an average of 181.8 centimeters, with other characteristics beyond size. And up to five players, such as Rodri, Remiro, Laporte, Joselu and Unai Simón, reached or exceeded 1.89.
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Which selection has the highest market value and which has the lowest?
Bellingham (photo), Kane, Foden, Saka, Palmer, Rice… It seems like an easy question to answer when you know the great potential of the English National Team and its impact on the market. The team going to Germany costs 1,472 million. France never reached 1,300, for example.
At the other extreme is Albania, with just over 172 million euros. Their striker Armando Broja, who trained at Chelsea, is their most valuable player, with a market value of 25.4 million euros.
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Who is the player with the highest market value and who is the lowest value?
At the moment, no player in the world has more value than Kylian Mbappé (photo), recent signing of Real Madrid. The France forward has a market value of 220.18 million euros. Next in the ranking of players playing this Euro is Jude Bellingham, with 193 million.
The player who, on the other hand, is not so important plays for the Georgian National Team and is worth almost… 42,000 euros. This is Giorgi Loria, a 38-year-old goalkeeper who is part of Dinamo Tbilisi. He is the only Eurocup professional with a market value below 100,000 euros.
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Which player has scored the most goals and played the most games in Euro Cup history?
Easy answer, because both ranks are headed by Cristiano Ronaldo, the only player who could play in six editions of the Euro Cup. This allowed him alone to have more than twenty matches in this continental competition, with 25 matches. And in terms of goals, he has 14 goals so far since his debut at Euro 2004.
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Who is the player with the most defeats in Euro Cup history?
Andriy Yarmolenko (photo), who is a footballer with a more than remarkable career, with experience in the Premier or Bundesliga, among other leagues, has a record that does not exactly cause pride: he is the player with the most defeat in history. of the Euro Cup.
In the three European Championships they played, they lost 8 of the 11 games they played. A terrible truth. And as a forward: in seven defeats he is followed by two legends of the sticks, Petr Cech and Peter Schmeichel.
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Who has the most carded players in Euro Cup history?
Everyone remembers the 2004 Euro Cup and Greece’s defeat. A midfielder who the general public will never forget played in the ranks of the Greek team: Georgios Karagounis (photo). Karagounis has the ‘honour’ of being the most carded player in the history of the Euro Cup, with eight yellow cards spread over three editions.
He saw so many yellow cards that he missed the final against Portugal in 2004 due to the accumulation of cards in the knockout phase. In that European Championship he saw four yellow cards, all four in four consecutive games. In the 2008 edition he saw three and another yellow in the 2012 edition.
Not to be missed is Karagounis, the player with the most caps for Greece, with 135 appearances.
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Which goalkeeper has kept the most clean sheets in the Euro Cup?
Everyone thinks of Iker Casillas, double European champion in Spain in 2008 and 2012, but the former white goalkeeper has been surpassed by another goalkeeping legend in terms of unbeatability.
We are talking about Edwin van der Sar (photo): the tall Dutch goalkeeper played 16 matches in the European Championship, in 10 he did not allow goals. Casillas stayed at 9.
Source: La Verdad
I’m Rose Herman and I work as an author for Today Times Live. My expertise lies in writing about sports, a passion of mine that has been with me since childhood. As part of my job, I provide comprehensive coverage on everything from football to tennis to golf.
