The Euro 2024 has just begun, and as always, it is with the host opening the first match, in this case against a Scotland that seems not to be a rival, or at least in the first minutes. In the early stages, Germany set the pace of the match and after some first dangerous chances, Wirtz managed to open the scoring in the 10th minute, which puts him in a select list of players who have scored the first goal of the Euro Cup in their respective years.
Here we will review these players and the year in which they scored:
In this first Euro Cup, it would be the Yugoslavia player Milan Galić who would open the scoring. With this goal, the forward helped his team beat the host.
In the victory of the first Euro Cup in the history of Spain, the one who would later end up being the golden boot of the (shared) edition, Chus Pereda, would be the one to open the scoring.
This year, it would not be the opening match that would have the first goal, but rather a match later, winger Dragan Džajić would score the first and only goal of Yugoslavia vs England.
In those years where Germany was divided, one of the best forwards in the history of Europe played on the federal side, who would also be the top scorer that year. It would be Gerd Müller, who would score two goals that game, who would open the scoring.
In the famous edition of the Panenka Euro Cup, it would be Anton Ondruš who would open the scoring for his team against Cruyff’s Holland. Furthermore, that match he scored another goal, although it happened to be his own.
It would be another legendary German player, Karl-Heinze Rummenigge, who would open the scoring against Czechoslovakia in the 55th minute in 1980. That year Germany would close the tournament with victory.
In the year that Michel Platini astonished all of Europe with his milestone, unattainable to date, it was he who opened the scoring in the 78th minute against a Denmark that could do nothing.
One of the names that resonates so much today because of his role as a coach, but perhaps not so much to the new generations because of his role as a footballer, is Roberto Mancini, the man who opened the scoring in ’88.
Although France would end up tying the match, it would be the Swede Jan Eriksson who would open the scoring in the year that they would be the hosts of this trophy.
Another of the years where the golden boot of the tournament would be the one who opened the scoring in the opening match, it would be Alan Shearer in this England 1-1 Switzerland, where the English would end up losing two points.
One of the players that is easiest to ignore on the list would be the one who opened the scoring for Belgium in 2000. Bart Goor would be the name, and despite Sweden’s attempts to tie, being one less was too much. for them.
In what would be a reflection of that year’s final, Greece would beat Portugal in the first match of 2004, and it would start with a goal from Giorgios Karagounis.
And in the first feat of Spain’s golden era, it would be the Czech Václav Svĕrkoš who would begin scoring in 2008, the year that all Spaniards have marked.
And in a list of names that already sound more familiar to current fans, it would be Robert Lewandowski who would open the scoring in the first match of the 2012 Euro Cup in Poland.
And of course, in the Euro Cup that France won in 2016, it would be their all-time top scorer Olivier Giroud, who would open the scoring in a match that Payet would end up closing with a great goal to give his team the victory.
And in the last Euro Cup played, it would also be a novel event that would occur in the first goal, and it would be the first time in history that an own goal would be the first of the Euro Cup, and it would be from the Turkish Merih Demiral.
And finally we arrive at the current Euro Cup, where, as we have mentioned, it was Florian Wirtz, who would try it in the first instance, but after being offside, it had to be his second chance in which he would score the first goal of the Euro Cup 2024. It was in the 10th minute, and in the first half the German team would lead 3-0.
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