The UEFA Euro Fantasy Draft

Final teams for the first round
Final teams for the first round:

1. crappycraperson - 1. Platini 2. Figo 3. Tigana 4. Tardelli 5. Krol 6. Antonin Puc 7. Planicka 8. Ceulemans 9. Vogts 10. Rosetta 11. Dellas 12. Marcos Senna

2. Edgar Allan Pillow & MJJ & coolredwine - 1. Puskás 2. Masopust 3. Gullit 4. Breitner 5. Deschamps 6. Sol Campbell 7. Schweinsteiger 8. Durkovic 9. Pepe 10. Schrojf 11. Hierro 12. Sneijder

3. Paolo Di Canio - 1. Cristiano Ronaldo 2. Blanc 3. Yashin 4. van Nistelrooy 5. Gentile 6. Domenghini 7. Ballack 8. Bergkamp 9. Camacho 10. Pique 11. Giovanni Ferrari 12. 12. Dragoslav Sekularac

4. The Stain - 1. Zidane 2. Czibor 3. Amancio 4. Förster 5. Zagorakis 6. Shearer 7. Wimmer 8. Puyol 9. Combi 10. Zambrotta 11. Joao Pinto 12. Poborsky

5. Skizzo & Pat_Mustard - 1. van Basten 2. Netzer 3. Monti 4. Popluhár 5. Bonhof 6. Suker 7. Sergio Ramos 8. Olivella 9. Jarni 10. Dasayev 11. Arnesen 12. Olsen

6. Stobzilla - 1. Beckenbauer 2. B.Charlton 3. Bican 4. Gascoigne 5. Brian Laudrup 6. Kuznetsov 7. Capdevila 8. Branko Stanković 9. Pešek 10. Brolin 11. Pfaff 12. Marchena

7. Joga Bonito - 1. Maldini 2. B.Moore 3. Sindelar 4. Bergomi 5. Effenberg 6. Pluskal 7. Hoeneß 8. Villa 9. Elkjær 10. McManaman 11. Demyanenko 12. Platzer

8. harms - 1. Dragan Džajić 2. Sárosi 3. Schuster 4. Voronin 5. Brehme 6. Ondruš 7. Bezsonov 8. Van Moer 9. Khurtsilava 10. Ivo Viktor 11. Chislenko 12. Pietro Rava

9. Aldo - 1. Xavi 2. Iniesta 3. Nedved 4. Lahm 5. Albert 6. Carvalho 7. Cocu 8. Bossis 9. Kaltz 10. Baros 11. Happel 12. Nielsen

10. Raees & Gio - 1. Rijkaard 2. Facchetti 3. Kohler 4. Henry 5. Zebec 6. Hanappi 7. Beara 8. Hässler 9. Pirlo 10. Lerby 11. Ibrahimovic 12. Amoros

11. Theon & NM - 1. Matthäus 2. Bozsik 3. Davids 4. Desailly 5. Kocsis 6. Burgnich 7. Stielike 8. Luigi Riva 9. Vukas 10. Hiden 11. Gordillo 12. Totti

12. The Red Viper - 1. Gerd Müller 2. Sammer 3. Vieira 4. Shesternyov 5. Cannavaro 6. Piola 7. Rui Costa 8. Alonso 9. Rooney 10. Alba 11. Zeman 12. Srna.

13. big red123 - 1. Cruyff 2. Baresi 3. Stoichkov 4. Michael Laudrup 5. Koeman 6. Buzánszky 7. Grosics 8. Ladislav Novák 9. Guardiola 10. Djorkaeff 11. Giannini 12. Eilts.

14. Šjor Bepo & Physiocrat - 1. Luis Suarez 2. Nesta 3. Hidegkuti 4. Ivanov 5. Giresse 6. Stam 7. Briegel 8. Busquets 9. G. Neville 10. Zoff 11. Podolski 12. Scholes.

15. ctp - 1. Rummenigge 2. Scirea 3. Ocwirk 4. Mazzola 5. Gerets 6. Lizarazu 7. Nausch 8. Iribar 9. Couto 10. Kluivert 11. Adams 12. Modrić.

16. PedroMendez - 1. Meazza 2. Thuram 3. Schmeichel 4. Netto 5. Bene 6. Schwarzenbeck 7. Silva 8. Smistik 9. Pires 10. Frank De Boer 11. Carbrini 12. Klinsmann.
 
The draw gave us the following wonderful match-ups:


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Match 1:​

Theon & NM vs harms​

@Theon @NM @harms
 
Balu said:
Fantastic final pick. I was wondering why no one went for him. He played a stronger Euro in 2008 than Alonso and Busquets in 2012.
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Yeap. He played a bigger part in that Spanish win than those you mentioned and other Spanish CM's like Fabregas, Silva etc.
 
Skizzo said:
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Morten Olsen is widely regarded as one of the best liberos to have graced football since the Beckenbauer era.

Similarly to Beckenbauer, Olsen was in many years moved around the pitch and was used in various positions due to his versatility and all-round decent ability. As such, he managed to fill out roles as defensive midfielder, stopper and full back before finally being transferred to a position as libero/sweeper after having reached 30 years of age while playing for Anderlecht. Indeed, this miraculous decision only happened by chance as Morten Olsen initially only was used as cover for an injured team mate. But here, Olsen quickly showed a genuine skill for leading the game from his back four, often utilizing a superhuman ability to go on commando raids up through the length of the pitch and not before long, the spot was his to command. Indeed, it was one of Olsen's mesmerizing bursts of speed which managed to win a penalty against West Germany at Mexico 1986. The penalty was safely converted by MJJ.

As if decided by fate beforehand, Olsen played one of his finest performances in the libero position in this particular game with the master himself, Franz Beckenbauer, standing as idle spectator from his position as West German coach.

In the most astonishing of manners, Olsen continued to dominate football pitches around Europe after the World Cup in Mexico as he moved to FC Köln and became an instant favourite after having "rejuvenated" the side with his style and leadership. His last heroics with the national team came at EURO '88 in Germany at 38 years of age though he was not able to prevent a young and inexperienced Danish side from crashing out in the group stages.
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I was staggered he had been overlooked.
 
Draw first round of matches
There were 16 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

  1. 11. Theon & NM
  2. 8. harms
  3. 10. Raees & Gio
  4. 3. Paolo Di Canio
  5. 6. Stobzilla
  6. 2. Edgar Allan Pillow & MJJ & coolredwine
  7. 15. ctp
  8. 7. Joga Bonito
  9. 1. crappycraperson
  10. 16. PedroMendez
  11. 9. Aldo
  12. 5. Skizzo & Pat_Mustard
  13. 4. The Stain
  14. 14. Šjor Bepo & Physiocrat
  15. 13. big red123
  16. 12. The Red Viper

Timestamp: 2015-04-18 05:59:49 UTC


Match 1: Theon & NM vs harms
Match 2: Raees & Gio vs Paolo Di Canio
Match 3: Stobzilla vs Team EAP
Match 4: ctp vs Joga Bonito
Match 5: crappycraperson vs PedroMendez
Match 6: Aldo vs Skizzo & Pat
Match 7: The Stain vs Šjor Bepo & Physiocrat
Match 8: big red123 vs The Red Viper
 
Schedule:

Let's try to play all 8 games over the next week, max 2 matches a day. Talk to each other and let me know at what day you want to play. If one of you prefers are certain starting time, I'll try to make it happen if your opponent agrees. If nothing is mentioned, the games will start at 12am British time.
 
Arshavin. Definitely should have been picked for this. I was close to picking Zhirkov, too. That Russian side was excellent.
 
Edgar Allan Pillow said:
It was a 3 Way fight between me, MJJ and crw. :nervous:

Let's see if I made the right choice after crappy picks... :lol:
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I suppose it was really a question of whether to play Puskas-Gullit as a front two or behind the striker. With Masopust and Schweini in midfield, you may as well give them the space to attack, and Sneijder is a good foil to bring it all together.

I would have picked someone else, but then, I focus a lot more on the player attributes than whether they actually displayed them at Euros or got into the Team of the Tournament.
 
MJJ said:
Now that the draft is over, who do you guys think was a better pick for an AM spot? Sneijder, Arshavin, Fabregas or Deco.
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For that spot, in that team, Deco, then Sneijder, and neither of the other two.

You can't make Euro form override fit-for-purpose.
 
The final table with flags:

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And the numbers for each country, Germany won. Well drafted guys, well drafted:

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MJJ said:
Now that the draft is over, who do you guys think was a better pick for an AM spot? Sneijder, Arshavin, Fabregas or Deco.
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Arshavin, even if he is better slightly on the left. He was one of the best players in the world in that form and by far the most important player in the team that smashed Netherlands. I don't like him though, but it's a shame that he was overlooked
 
@Theon @NM

Hate arguing against Theon, we are disagreeing on far too many things. What time suits you? Is something like Wednesday okay for you, guys?
 
harms said:
Arshavin, even if he is better slightly on the left. He was one of the best players in the world in that form and by far the most important player in the team that smashed Netherlands. I don't like him though, but it's a shame that he was overlooked
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He would have played as a left winger/left attacking mid/.

crappycraperson said:
Deco or Arshavin
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ctp said:
Arshavin. Definitely should have been picked for this. I was close to picking Zhirkov, too. That Russian side was excellent.
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Seeeeee! @Edgar Allan Pillow @coolredwine


Forgetting what anto said :wenger:
 
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