Euro 2024 gets underway this Friday, with the first match of the tournament between the local team, Germany, and Scotland. A month of pure football is coming, in which the ‘World Cup without Brazil and Argentina’ will share the attention, from Thursday the 20th, with the Copa América in the United States.
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Figures such as Kylian Mbappé, Antoine Griezmann, Cristiano Ronaldo, Toni Kroos, Jude Bellingham, Harry Kane and Luka Modric stand out in this edition of the tournament; a collection of dazzling individuals, to which Spain opposes its team as champion of the League of Nations.
France appears as one of the great candidates for the title, after playing in the last two World Cup finals. But he has the European title pending, which he has not won since 2000. The overwhelming potential of Mbappé and the total football of Griezmann and his teammates are seeking revenge after losing in the round of 16 in the last edition, against Switzerland.
Cristiano Ronaldo begins a new challenge with Portugal
Portugal goes out to recover the crown it had won in the 2016 edition. The arrival of Roberto Martínez has given a huge boost to the team that has 13 victories in 15 games.
At 39 years old, Cristiano Ronaldo looks rejuvenated. He has scored 13 goals in this stage. Portugal’s all-time top scorer will be playing in his sixth European Championship: no one has played more games (25) or scored more goals (14) in the history of the tournament.
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Germany regained favoritism with the return to the roster of Toni Kroos, in its last tournament before retiring from professional football. He has not had good performances in the last tournaments he played: he was left out of Euro 2020 in the round of 16 and in the last two World Cups he fell in the first phase. Its coach, Julian Nagelsmann, has the challenge of recovering an elusive title since 1996.
England, on the other hand, is still unable to win the Euro. They were very close in the last edition, playing at home: they lost against Italy in shots from the penalty spot. Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden emerge as spearheads of the English illusion.
Croatia hopes to win, in what could be Luka Modric’s last official tournament, an unprecedented title, as the head of a second group of candidates, in which Belgium is in the process of renewal and in which the defending champion, Italy, seeks revenge after its painful elimination from Qatar 2022.
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In that area, with Croats and Italians, is the current champion of the European Nations League, Spain, which, although it does not have a brilliant figure like several of its rivals, does aspire to get the most out of teamwork to return to crown
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