So last year's European Championships start in a couple of days!

Who are your favourites, outsiders, best players, best stadia?

My household will be divided between the orange lion and the three lions.........however we all have to get past the red devil's!

https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/#

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Since I'm an American that's only lived in one European country...I gotta go with Germany!

 

I'm going with Hawaii.

Still a bit pissed off with the guys and their Breakaway league. You don't make management decisions like that without your top players signing off on it.

 

The betting odds make France favourites at 5/1.........I cannot find Hawaii so they must be rank outsiders.

https://www.oddschecker.com/football/euro-2020/winner

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So Mancini's azzurri looked impressive beating Turkey 3-0 and Wales just got out of jail against Switzerland 1-1!

The euros have started.

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This year is crazy. The 2020 Olympics are in Japan too. Still trying to sort it all out haha

 

Wow, such anticipation to the game later tonight, then this happens. Let's hope Eriksen is fine without any permanent damage

 

I was watching the game and thought the worst when they were frantically giving Eriksen CPR.........he is alive and in hospital which is the best place for him!

Hope he makes a full recovery.

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At first I really thought the CPR was taking too long to get him back, let alone for him to ever fully recover, but the medics of course didn't have to waste time in traffic and he actually looks good from the only picture we got.

Just on the radio now he's able to speak, so pretty optimistic. His career might be over but let's hope that's the only downside.

 

News about this was the top article in Yahoo News.

 

Just heard the game will be continued in 20+ minutes, very unexpected but that's the best news you could get!

 

I was watching this game as the medics worked Christian Eriksen........disturbing and all my good wishes go to the Danish player.

https://apnews.com/article/eriksen-...-2020-soccer-9911d934556c6b181636f47dedf20888

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Our journey begins!



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Dum Europeans call football soccer & 2021, 2020. lol

 

Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen suffered cardiac arrest during a Euro 2020 match on Saturday, Morten Boesen, Denmark's team doctor, confirmed on Sunday.

"He was gone, and we did cardiac resuscitation," Boesen said at a news conference.

Eriksen is in stable condition at a Copenhagen hospital after collapsing late in the first half of Denmark's tournament opener against Finland. Paramedics and doctors, including Boesen, rushed onto the field to treat him. They administered CPR and used a defibrillator, or AED.

"We got him back after one defib, so that's quite fast," Boesen said.

"How close were we [to losing Eriksen]? I don't know," he said.


Denmark players react as paramedics attend to midfielder Christian Eriksen after he collapsed on the pitch during the during Saturday's Euro 2020 match against Finland. (Photo by Wolfgang Rattay/AFP via Getty Images)
Eriksen was transported to a nearby hospital on a stretcher. His agent and other officials confirmed Saturday night and Sunday morning that he was breathing, awake and alert. He communicated with teammates and coaches less than two hours after being wheeled off the field, and again Sunday morning, according to Denmark's soccer federation.

Denmark head coach Kasper Hjulmand said Eriksen "was concerned about us and, of course, his family. He said, 'I don't remember much' and 'I'm more concerned about you guys, how are you doing?'"

As of Sunday afternoon, Eriksen remains in the hospital undergoing testing.

As for the cause of the cardiac arrest, Boesen, the team doctor, said: "I'm not a cardiologist, so the details I will leave to the experts at the hospital."

Denmark coach on game resuming: 'It was wrong'
Denmark and Finland resumed the match less than two hours after Eriksen collapsed. UEFA, the European soccer governing body, said the decision to restart the game had been made by players. Hjulmand, however, said UEFA had given his team two options: to complete the game Saturday night or Sunday afternoon.

"The players couldn’t imagine not being able to sleep tonight and then having to get on the bus and come in again tomorrow," Hjulmand, the Danish coach, said Saturday night. "Honestly, it was best to get it over with."

But at a Sunday news conference, he reconsidered. "Looking back, it was the wrong thing to make the decision between the two scenarios to the players in this case," Hjulmand said.

"Players were in a shock condition – players who didn't really know yet if they had lost their best friend. And they have to decide between these two things.

"I have a sense that we shouldn't have played. I know it's difficult. It's just a feeling I have. Maybe we should have just gone on to the bus and gone home and let's see what the next days would have brought."

Some 20 minutes after the match restarted, Finland scored – with its only shot in its first-ever game at a major international tournament – and held on for a 1-0 upset. Denmark's next match, against Group B favorite Belgium, is scheduled for Thursday at 6 p.m. (noon ET) in Copenhagen.

In a statement Sunday morning, the Danish soccer federation said that players and staff were receiving "crisis assistance" and "will continue to be there for each other after yesterday's incident."

Hjulmand, at his news conference, said: "We will try tomorrow to establish normality as much as is possible. Players have different kinds of shocks and traumas and emotions.

"We will try to use the next couple of days as good as possible. I will try to get a feeling of the players. Maybe for some, the time is too short to be able to play football again."

 

The Denmark game should never have resumed. Unfortunately that's the last game Ericsson will play professionally. Hopefully there will be more games like the Netherlands v Ukraine game tonight.

It's hard to look past France as winners but Germany are always there abouts.
As for dark horses come on Scotland.

 

Good luck to Scotland today..........it will be great to have the tartan army on the terraces!



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A message from Christian Eriksen!

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/15/christian-eriksen-denmark-euro-2020

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