UEFA EURO 2004™ All-Star Squad

[Elsaak]

Position Name Country
Goalkeeper Petr Cech Czech Republic
Goalkeeper Antonios Nikopolidis Greece
Defender Sol Campbell England
Defender Ashley Cole England
Defender Traianos Dellas Greece
Defender Olof Mellberg Sweden
Defender Ricardo Carvalho Portugal
Defender Georgios Seitaridis Greece
Defender Gianluca Zambrotta Italy
Midfield player Michael Ballack Germany
Midfield player Luís Figo Portugal
Midfield player Frank Lampard England
Midfield player Maniche Portugal
Midfield player Pavel Nedved Czech Republic
Midfield player Theodoros Zagorakis Greece
Midfield player Zinedine Zidane France
Forward Milan Baroš Czech Republic
Forward Angelos Charisteas Greece
Forward Henrik Larsson Sweden
Forward Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal
Forward Wayne Rooney England
Forward Jon Dahl Tomasson Denmark
Forward Ruud van Nistelrooij Netherlands

 

[Elsaak]

UEFA has just reveled its All star team for the main competition :

http://www.euro2004.com/News/Kind=1/newsId=205742.html

 

[Tallanas]

I think it shows how the "old guard" underperformed... No players from Spain, one from Italy, one from Germany, one from Holland...

By the way, how did Figo make that list? He put in one good performance...

 

[Evertonian]

I think it shows how the "old guard" underperformed... No players from Spain, one from Italy, one from Germany, one from Holland...

I slightly disagree with this. It seems to me that to get on the list you need to be either from a country that did well, or from an old guard country. There are players from Germany and Italy who went out in the 1st round and 4 from england, but none from the likes of Russia (who even beat Greece!), Latvia, Bulgaria etc, where the players weren't as well known before the tournament.

Also, Pavel Nedved. Played rubbish against Latvia, didn't play against Germany, and went off injured early on against Greece.

 

[Hitro]

As usual these things are total crap.

 

[MCdread]

My ideal team of the tournament is:

Buffon

Seitaridis
Dellas
Ricardo Carvalho
Zambrotta

Poborsky
Zagorakis
Maniche
Nedved

Rooney
Baros

 

[classical_hero]

MCdread, I disagree with your choice of Goalkeeper, because he is an idiot . I'd have to say the 2 official choice are the best in that category.

 

[MCdread]

Nikopolidis is an ok goalie but not that great. He's very fragile at crosses. Greece conceded 4 goals in the tournament and two were from crosses where he should have done better, not to mention the several errors he made in those situatuions but that weren't capitalised by czechs and spaniards to mention the most notorious ones. Buffon is a much more complete keeper, and saved everything that was possible to save. It was not because of him that Italy went home.

 

[Shabbaman]

Defender Olof Mellberg Sweden

Ah, the great penalty taker...

By the way, how did Figo make that list?

How did Zidane make that list? For that free kick and penalty?

 

[Phantom Lord]

I think the goalkeeper of Latvia did a pretty good job, as well as their central forward player did. Robben played good, so did Zlatan, Deco, Poborsky, Lahm, Valeron and some I forget in this moment.

That UEFA list is only a poor compromise between naming some of the usual superstars and five greek players.