The ten winners of the European Championship "Euro 2020"

The curtain came down on the activities of the European Nations Cup "Euro 2020", which was hosted by 11 countries in a precedent that did not occur in the history of major tournaments for teams, and many teams wrote success stories during the Euro competitions, while other teams moved away from the scene either unexpectedly or with a surprising scenario, and the most prominent example On the latter, France is the world champion.

We review the top 10 winners of "Euro 2020 ."

 

Gianluigi Donnarumma

 

Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma is considered one of the biggest winners of Euro 2020. On a personal level, the European Nations Cup was his first major tournament, and he became the first goalkeeper other than Gianluigi Buffon, since Euro 2000, to defend the Azzurri shirt in a major tournament.

On the field, he managed to respond with three clean sheets and amazing saves throughout the tournament, the most important of which was in the penalty shootout during the semi-final and final matches, and his response to the dangerous attacks of the Belgium team in the quarter-finals.

Roberto Mancini

Roberto Mancini, who coached the Italian national team in May 2018 after the disaster of failing to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1958, revived Italian football. Since the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Italy has suffered a lot in major tournaments, as it did not go beyond the first round in the 2010 and 2014 World Cups before The failure in 2018 to qualify from the ground up, while in the Euro she qualified for the 2012 final to receive the biggest loss in the history of finals 0-4, and then she was eliminated in 2016 from the quarter-finals against Germany.

Mancini led Italy to the biggest unbeaten streak in its history with 34 matches after the England match, and Mancini relied on a group of young stars such as Gianluigi Donnarumma, Federico Chiesa and Jorginho with the experienced Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci to form a team that is in every sense of the word invincible.

Mancini took advantage of the disappointments of major candidates such as France, Germany and Portugal and finished himself off giant teams such as Belgium, Spain and finally England, he presented offensive football that ended with the Italians to end the competition with 12 goals in 7 matches.

Bonucci and Chiellini

The strong defensive duo of Italy succeeded in writing their names in letters of light in the battalion of the best Italian defenders in history thanks to the heroic performances of Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini, despite the violence on the part of the latter in particular in many scenes, which had an undeniably important impact on the coronation of the Italians.

The tournament, with everything in it, represented compensation for them for a journey full of disappointments, whether with Juventus this season or with the Italian national team in previous years. Rather, their brilliance nominated them to be in the next World Cup, as the first news published after the Italian crowning the Euro was that the Bianconeri administration decided to renew Chiellini for a new year. Until 2022.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo, the star of the Portugal national team, theoretically failed to retain the European Nations Cup, but it is a matter of the entire team, not a single player.

But in terms of personal records, he achieved a lot. First, he finished the tournament as the top scorer with 5 goals, and secondly, with 14 goals, he became the best scorer in the history of the Euro throughout history.

Patrick Chic

The second top scorer in the tournament and the only one with Ronaldo, who scored 5 goals, where the Czech striker for Bayer Leverkusen raised the values ​​of the stars of the German League, after he scored against a group of the most important teams such as Croatia, the Netherlands and Denmark, and presented a distinguished level.

The 25-year-old has presented himself as an expensive commodity to the European club thanks to his impressive performance, and reports say that Tottenham Hotspur's management considers him the most suitable replacement for Harry Kane in the event of his departure.

Luis Enrique

The coach of the Spanish national team succeeded, despite not including any star from Real Madrid, in the formation of an offensive team that relies on the method of team play, short passes and possession, with the theory of "Tiki Taka" Barcelona.

Spain presented impressive performances, and while it was waiting for its exit from either the eighth or the quarter-finals, it succeeded in qualifying for the semi-finals and was even more dangerous than the subsequent champion Italy, had it not been for the absence of the leading striker from coach Enrique's battalion.

The euro restored Enrique's artistic prestige after years of disappointments that followed his historic crowning of the 2015 European Champions League with Barcelona.

Denmark national team

 

Denmark is one of the most winning teams from Euro 2020, as it has qualified for the semi-finals for the first time since 1992, when it achieved its historic title.

Denmark, despite its disastrous start in terms of humanity and technology, losing twice from Finland and Belgium and losing its star Christian Eriksen after he fell unconscious in the meeting with Finland and then lost him throughout the tournament, succeeded in achieving a miracle by qualifying for the semi-finals.

Denmark did not qualify easily, but achieved exceptional results, most notably the 4-1 landslide victory over Russia, which qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Cup 3 years ago, and then the 4-0 victory over Wales, which was in the semi-finals of Euro 2016.

Denmark relied on the collective performance, the diversity of the sources of risk, and its advantage was the early ability to decide the matches.

Switzerland national team

Switzerland is one of the most important teams that participated in the Euro, and it suffices to say that it is one of the world's greatest champions, France.

The psychological handling of coach Vladimir Petkovic's battalion with a 1-3 delay and a missed penalty against France, then returning in the result, and then after 4 days a heroic performance against Spain confirms that the Swiss are a team with an exceptional mentality.

Switzerland goalkeeper Jan Sommer had one of his best tournaments and was chosen by several positions as the best goalkeeper of the tournament after his impressive performances against France and Spain.

Raheem Sterling

Sterling is the most prominent star in Euro 2020 in the squad of coach Gareth Southgate in the England national team.

Sterling scored 3 goals, two goals in the first round and one in the final price, which opened the historic 2-0 victory over Germany, and made the penalty kick that England scored the questionable goal of qualifying to the final against Denmark.

The most notable gain for Rahim during the euro was the response to reports that his club, Manchester City, wanted to get rid of him in order to include Harry Kane, who shared the front line for England during the euro, as well as those who attacked Southgate to include him despite his presence on the bench of the City bench during the last period of the season.