OTB Euro Diaries 6: The Final Countdown

Submitted by cloud on Sun, 29/06/2008 - 00:12.

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Artist: Ana & Dan
Title: OTB Euro Diaries 6: Final Countdow
Album: OTB Euro Diaries
Genre: Podcas
Year: 2008
Length: 34:28 minutes (15.8 MB)
Format: Mono 44kHz 64Kbps (CBR)

It's coming! It's almost here! Your faithful OTB crew is hardly able to concentrate as the excitement gets the best of us but we fought through technical problems and Belgium's-finest-beer-induced hangover to deliver our Euro Cup Final special.

Ana is in on a fabulous location in Brussels, looking for an old men's pub. Dan on the other hand was in a pub and as a result didn't see Spain's 2nd goal. We're having a look at both Teams that made it to entertain us on Sunday and ponder over whether Frings will let the Spanish team out of the dressing room. We uncover why Ronaldo is sooo last season and what is it that the overly ambitious parents of the under 8 league players do when in doubt about the quality of judgement.

quote of the week: Frings "We shouldn't let them into the game'.

UEFA EURO 2008 FINAL
Date: Sun 29 June Kick-off: 1945 BST Venue: Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna
Referee: Roberto Rosetti.
Injuries - Spain: Villa - Germany: Rolfes

Road to the final:
Germany
2-0 Poland
1-2 Croatia
1-0 Austria
3-2 Portugal (quarter)
3-2 Turkey (semi)

Spain:
4-1 Russia
2-1 Spain
2-1 Greece
0-0 Italy 4-2 pens (quarter)
3-0 Russia (semi)

Squads

Spain:
Goalkeepers

* 1 Iker Casillas »
* 13 Andrés Palop »
* 23 Pepe Reina »

Defenders

* 2 Raúl Albiol »
* 3 Fernando Navarro »
* 4 Carlos Marchena »
* 5 Carles Puyol »
* 11 Joan Capdevila »
* 15 Sergio Ramos »
* 18 Álvaro Arbeloa »
* 20 Juanito »

Midfielders

* 6 Andrés Iniesta »
* 8 Xavi Hernández »
* 10 Cesc Fàbregas »
* 12 Santi Cazorla »
* 14 Xabi Alonso »
* 19 Marcos Senna »
* 22 Rubén de la Red »

Forwards

* 7 David Villa » injured
* 9 Fernando Torres »
* 16 Sergio García »
* 17 Daniel Güiza »
* 21 David Silva »

Germany
Goalkeepers

* 1 Jens Lehmann »
* 12 Robert Enke »
* 23 René Adler »

Defenders

* 2 Marcell Jansen »
* 3 Arne Friedrich »
* 4 Clemens Fritz »
* 5 Heiko Westermann »
* 16 Philipp Lahm »
* 17 Per Mertesacker »
* 21 Christoph Metzelder »

Midfielders

* 6 Simon Rolfes » injured
* 7 Bastian Schweinsteiger »
* 8 Torsten Frings »
* 13 Michael Ballack »
* 14 Piotr Trochowski »
* 15 Thomas Hitzlsperger »
* 18 Tim Borowski »

Forwards

* 9 Mario Gómez »
* 10 Oliver Neuville »
* 11 Miroslav Klose »
* 19 David Odonkor »
* 20 Lukas Podolski »
* 22 Kevin Kuranyi »

Useless Facts:
Spain haven't won a major honour since 1964 - European Championship
The last time these two met was a friendly in February 2003, which Spain won 3-1.
Jens Lehmann can become the oldest player ever to appear in a European Championship final.

Other Stuff:
It looks like there will be 24 teams in the European Cup from 2016
Paul Ince comes to Blackbourn
FA bans under-eights' football leagues