The UEFA Euro Fantasy Draft

Playerpool 1st reinforcement round
Playerpool for this round of drafting:

Don't forget that you can have more than 2 players from one nation in your squad, but the rules about playing at most 2 from one nation at the same time still stands, as does the rule regarding at least 3 pre-66 players. Be careful with substitutes if you add more players from one nation now. Any mistake means, you lose the game.

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

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

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

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.
 
If anyone wants additional threadmarks, just let me know.
 
Annahnomoss said:
@PedroMendez You start I believe?
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Balu said:
after each knockout round all eliminated players go into the reinforcement pool and stay there till the final.
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It doesn't firmly say that only eliminated players are exclusively part of the reinforcement pool. Can I pick an unpicked player?
 
Teams through to quarter finals

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 13.

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 13.

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 13.

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 13.

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 13.

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 13.

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 13.

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. Van Basten

@Raees @Gio
 
Joga Bonito said:
It doesn't firmly say that only eliminated players are exclusively part of the reinforcement pool. Can I pick an unpicked player?
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Yeah, but it's still the case. Unpicked players aren't eligible anymore. If that was the plan, we wouldn't have discussed all the gems that missed out after the drafting finished.

You can only pick players from the teams that lost in the first round, see the playerpool above or via threadmark.
 
I actually thought he went second and with TRV well stocked it looked a foregone conclusion. The Red Sheikh just signing anyone who can score, it seems.
 
Joga Bonito said:
Teams through to quarter finals

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 13.

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 13.

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 13.

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 13.

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 13.

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 13.

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 13. Beckenbauer

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. Van Basten
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@Aldo
 
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The captains of the Italian and Hungarian national teams Giuseppe Meazza (left) and Gyorgy Sarosi shake hands before 1938 World Cup final

I especially like the fact that referee is wearing a jacket

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 13.

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 13.

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 13.

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 13.

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 13. Meazza

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 13. Nesta

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 13. Beckenbauer

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. Van Basten


@Joga Bonito
 
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Rummenigge went into the 1980 UEFA European Championship with a big reputation having topped the Bundesliga scoring charts with 26 goals to win the title with FC Bayern München. He lived up to it, punctuating a series of powerful performances with the decisive goal against Czechoslovakia and providing the corner for Horst Hrubesch's late winner in the final. Rummenigge was voted 1980 European Footballer of the Year on the back of his 1980 Euros performances and retained the Ballon d'Or in 1981 after another top-scoring, title-winning campaign with Bayern.


Trivia : The Goal which won the European Championships

The Germans had taken an early lead through a Horst Hrubesch goal in the 10th minute. The Belgiums around future Kaiserslautern coach Erik Gerets and Bayern München keeper Jean Marie Pfaff had answered Germany’s early lead by taking charge of the game after a while, pressuring the German defense relentlessly at times.

German defenders Karlheinz Förster and Uli Stielike saved Germany time and time again. Future German assistant coach Stielike was out of answers to the Belgian attacks in the 72nd minute, putting in a foul on François Van Der Elst just outside the penalty area. Referee Rainea wrongly pointed to the spot, and René Vandereycken made no mistakes against Toni Schumacher, putting the Belgians on level terms again.

The corner kick

Normally this might have been enough to secure extra time. But, there is still the matter of the corner kick in the 89th minute. Germany’s designated corner kick taker Karl-Heinz Rummenigge approached Horst Hrubesch before taking the corner. The HSV striker’s German nickname(Kopfballmonster) can be roughly translated to ”the monster of headers”. Rummenigge was well aware of Hrubesch’s qualities, and therefore he told him:

''I’ll kick the ball onto your head, and you’ll put it into the goal!''

Rummenigge was in fact so confident in his and Hrubesch’s ability to execute this simple plan, that he turned to a photographer before taking the corner kick, yelling at him:

''Point your camera at Hrubesch.''

When the photographer asked Rummenigge why he should do so, the Bayern man replied:

''Just point it!''

After this brief exchange Rummenigge went up to take the corner. He floated the ball beautifully into the box, with Hrubesch storming onto the ball, heading it into the net. The plan had worked out. Hrubesch who hadn’t scored a single goal before the final, and who actually only got onto Germany’s roaster due to Klaus Fischer’s injury, had managed to score a brace, securing Germany’s second European championship.



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Divine Intervention

Hrubesch shined at the Euro in Italy when it really mattered - according to popular myth with some possible divine intervention.

Hrubesch recalled a visit to the Pope in Rome: “He suddenly waved in our direction and held up two fingers as if making the victory sign. A Hamburg journalist said ‘Horst this means you have to score two goals.’”

The towering Hrubesch duly delivered in the final with Belgium, firing home a pass from Schuster early on and heading the 2-1 winner in the final seconds of regulation.


Kalle and Ten Robots

At the 1982 World Cup finals the German was was troubled with injuries but made a significant impact in the semi final. Rummenigge was sent on as a substitute in extra time of the Germany - France semifinal in Sevilla. The scene gave rise to a anecdote. The then French President Francois Mitterand shouted, obviously in a mixture of excitement and horror: “Oh mon Dieu! Rümmenisch!” (“Oh my God, it’s Rummenigge“). Five minutes later “Rümmenisch” scored to make it 2-3. Termed later “the match of the century” it finished 3-3 after 120 minutes with Rummenigge playing a key role in the equalizer. Germany then proceeded to win the resulting penalty shoot-out. Rummenigge increased his fame. About the 1982 team Pele remarked - ‘Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and ten robots.’

One year later the Whittles, a British married couple better known in pop circles as Alain and Denise, brought out the song “Rummenigge”. The homage to the dribbler Rummenigge with the sexy knees – “what a man!” – was fairly successful in the charts. In the football world the song became very popular – to Rummenigge’s chagrin at first.



Watch out Sexy Knees is coming for you :lol::lol::lol:
 
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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 13.

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 13.

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 13.

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 13. Rummenigge

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 13. Meazza

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 13. Nesta

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 13. Beckenbauer

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. Van Basten

@The Stain
 
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