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The Euro takes a final break before the final on Sunday 11 July, at Wembley Stadium, London – there has been no match for third place since the 1980 edition. Eliminated in the 1982 World Cup semi-final, the French team – through the voice of the FFF – had asked UEFA to ban this match which it deemed superfluous in view of the 1984 European Championship, played in France. Request accepted by the body of European football which, since, has never reversed its decision.
Euro star: Kasper Dolberg
With three goals in just 158 minutes played, Kasper Dolberg is the Danish top scorer in the Euro. He is the surprise guest of a selection that had a nightmarish start to the tournament, with Christian Eriksen’s heart attack and two defeats in as many games. Qualified on the wire at the cost of a great success against Russia in the last group match (1-4), the Danes united. A start to which Kasper Dolberg is no stranger.
On the bench during the two initial defeats, the Nice center forward started at the forefront of the attack in the eighth. Result: a double against the Welsh for a resounding victory for the Danish Dynamites (0-4). The 23-year-old striker returned cover in the quarter against the Czech Republic (1-2), with a second goal scored after a formidable collective movement initiated by the outside of Maehle’s foot. Despite the elimination on Wednesday against the English at the gates of the final, Dolberg was one of the great architects of the fabulous Danish course.
England v Denmark (2-1, after extra time) The English armada faced the Danish Vikings at Wembley. And if they pitched during the first thirty minutes of the match (superb free kick from young Damsgaard at the 30e), the Three Lions ended up imposing their collective strength, pushing the Scandinavian captain Simon Kjaer to score against his camp on a defensive tackle (39e). In the second half, the English waves collided with the defense and courage of Kasper Hjulmand’s men.
Up to the 104e minute, when Raheem Sterling, the wisp of the English attack, managed to sneak into the Danish area, (slightly) jostled by Joakim Maehle: penalty for the Three Lions, scored in two stages by Harry Kane. England are in the final. Fifty-five years after her world title (already at home), she has the opportunity against Italy, Sunday at 9 p.m. at Wembley, to win the second international title in its history.
Kasper Schmeichel made nine saves against England, including a penalty, the most by a Denmark goalkeeper in a singl… https://t.co/OBPz2QnczK
For all of his work, both Danish goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, who plays for Leicester, was enormous during the semi-final against England. Without his multiple stops during the match – and throughout the competition – the Dynamites would rather have had the effect of a wet firecracker. Kasper, worthy heir to his father Peter, surprise winner of Euro 1992 with the Danish selection.
Meanwhile… Messi and Neymar in the Copa America final
Lionel Messi’s Argentina makes a new appointment with history. The Albiceleste defeated Colombia on penalties (1-1 after 120 minutes of play) in the semi-finals of the Copa America. A performance made possible thanks to Argentinian goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, author of three parades during the penalty shootout.
With 4 goals and 5 assists, “La Pulga” crushes in relative anonymity – behind closed doors and staggered schedules oblige – the competition. He is involved in three quarters of Argentina’s achievements, and again delivered the decisive pass for Lautaro Martinez’s opener against the Colombians. He will find in the final the Brazil of Neymar, his former teammate of FC Barcelona, still decisive passer in the half against Peru (1-0), his third in the tournament. The most decisive players in the competition, “Ney” and “Leo” will try to win their first major title in the selection. Messi is playing his fifth international final, while Neymar was absent from the coronation auriverde during the Copa America in 2019, already played in Brazil.
A corner of blue sky … azure: Italian fatigue
“Now we have to rest because it was really trying. (…) When you attack your sixth game after such a rapid succession of meetings, with all the trips we had to make, it becomes very tiring. “
Unlike his shirts, always impeccably ironed, the Italian coach, Roberto Mancini, is rinsed. Like his team, who struggled to keep up with the pace imposed by Spain in the semi-final. After playing their first three matches in Rome, Squadra Azzurra moved to London, Munich, and then back to London.
Flight resumption: Konami breaks contract with Griezmann
“We had announced that Antoine Griezmann would become our content ambassador but, in light of recent events, we have decided to cancel the contract”
A controversial video that does damage. Antoine Griezmann has just lost his partnership with the video game publisher Konami, of which he was to be the ambassador for the year 2022. The consequence of a sequence dating from 2019 during which we see the French in the company of his compatriot Ousmane Dembéle, mocking the Japanese staff during a tour of FC Barcelona in the land of the Rising Sun. Faced with the scale of the controversy, the two players apologized on social networks.
“ I have always been committed against any form of discrimination (…). I firmly refute the accusations made to me and I am sorry if I could offend my Japanese friends “, defended Griezmann on Twitter. An update that was not enough to convince the brand, which wanted to make the French the ambassador of a card game and a famous football game.
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