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Only Russia and Bulgaria best canada goose jacket reddit are definitely out and it is still conceivable that France or England, Spain or Portugal, Italy or Sweden, Germany or Holland could be eliminated. It is also conceivable that any one of those eight could go on and win the tournament. Add to the list of potential winners the Czech Republic and Denmark – while Croatia and Greece have looked stronger than expected, too – and the agonies for a betting man become clear. /ppThe French camp get the picture. ‚This tournament is very tough,’ says the coach, Jacques Santini. ‚Tougher than we expected,’ says the striker David Trezeguet. ‚All the big names have experienced problems.’ /ppSuch parity has led to a belief in some quarters that this is a poor tournament. We have had drama, notably in the England-France game a href=”http://www.mycanadagoosejacket.org/” rel=”friend met co-worker neighbor”cg/a, but also sterility, in Switzerland v Croatia. There has not yet been a technically excellent game. That the Swedes are playing some of the best football is a sign, say some, that this is not a vintage year. /ppThey may be right; we shall see. It is, though, something of an insult to the player of the tournament so far, Henrik Larsson, and a slur on Denmark’s spirit – embodied poignantly in Jesper Gronkjaer’s goal against Bulgaria a week after the death of his mother – that the progress of such habitual also-rans thus far is cited as evidence of decline within the European game. /ppThe Champions League. Sven-Göran Eriksson was asked on Friday if Wayne Rooney needs to be playing in the competition to develop his career. As ever, the England coach was diplomatic, not wishing to offend Everton or tout their player. You could not help, however, suspecting that the answer he was keeping in his head was: ‚Yes’. At first his selections contained players from Charlton and Sunderland. Now a player has to be exceptional to come from outside the Premiership’s top four clubs. /ppThe FA’s director of football development, Sir Trevor Brooking, is more forthcoming. ‚When I was playing, England players came from a lot of different clubs. Now there is a concentration around the Champions League clubs. Joe Cole always said he wouldn’t sign another contract with West Ham because he had to be playing in the Champions League. /pp’All the players feel they have to be playing at that level. That is hugely frustrating for those clubs outside the Champions League. There is so much speculation about black canada goose parka Wayne now. It is great for England but not bu sees a spike in canada goose jacket thefts so great if you are an Everton fan watching play him so well each game.’ /ppThere are lots of players in Portugal whose game has matured thanks to greater exposure to European club competition. There are also those rejected by English clubs but enjoying a moment in the sun: the Greeks Dimitrios Papadopoulos, bombed out by Burnley, and Trianos Dellas, spurned by Sheffield United and now with Roma; the Croat authentic canada goose outlet captain Boris Zivkovic, so pallid at Portsmouth; the Latvian Maris Verpakovskis, unwanted by Wolves. Then there are those who also failed to impress in the Premiership but who have since been sharpened by the Champions League. /ppMost notable is Jon Dahl Tomasson, who could barely have struck the Angel of the North from five paces when at Newcastle but is now a hit in Milan. Take, too, the Greek captain Theo Zagorakis, can i wash my canada goose jacket who looks twice the player he was with Leicester after returning to AEK Athens and playing regularly in Europe. /ppThe reason for an apparent levelling out at this tournament may well be found in the constant exposure to each other of players in club competition. Such is the market and movement in a free-trading Europe that players from the less-heralded nations are more familiar with, and less in awe of, those from the bigger TV-market powers of Italy, Spain, Germany and England. France, after all, built World and European champions by training them up and sending them out best canada goose jacket for women into the wider world. /ppThough early indications are that this is end of empire for a French squad in need of freshening, notably in defence, they may yet reassert themselves. The Italians could dig themselves out of a hole, not for the first time, the Spanish might finally punch their weight, and the English rediscover the art of passing to each other. When the fear of failing to reach the last eight is gone, flowering might follow. /ppThe history of major championships tells us, after all, that it is only in hindsight that teams are viewed as outstanding. During the tournament itself, all have had their ordinary moments. Who does memory insist are the outstanding European champions of the past 20 years? /ppRuud Gullit and Marco Van Basten’s Holland in 1988? They canada goose coat 1000 calorie bariatric diet did not even win their group – that was achieved by a Soviet Union side they went on to beat in the final – and were five authentic canada goose outlet online minutes from elimination by the Republic of Ireland until Wim Kieft popped up with an headed equaliser. France four years ago? Again they did not win their group, being beaten 3-2 by the Dutch. /ppThere is still plenty of time for a remarkable player, a gelling team to emerge – if referees become stricter with the shirt-pulling and pitches are watered more to prevent the ball sticking under players’ feet – as the moment for simply hanging in there passes. 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