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• Ireland is the only squad that doesn’t have any players from its own domestic league.

• England is the only squad that only has players from its own domestic league.

• Robbie Keane [Ireland] (LA Galaxy, MLS) and Christian Wilhelmsson [Sweden] (Al-Hilal, Saudi Pro League) are the only two players that play outside of Europe.

• The oldest player in the tournament is Kostas Chalkias [Greece] (38 years old)

• The youngest is Jetro Willems [Netherlands] (18 years old) {21 year difference!}

There are 3 coaches that are not from the country they are coaching.

• Fernando Santos [Portugese] coaching Greece
• Dick Advocaat [Dutch] coaching Russia
• Giovanni Trappatoni [Italian] coaching Ireland

The lowest FIFA ranked team is Poland (65th) The highest is Spain (1)

This is the first time Ukraine will compete at a European Championship.

The slogan for the tournament is “Creating History Together”

Slavek and Slavko are the official mascots of the Euro 2012

The German, the Italian the Dutch and the English teams visited the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp before the start of the tournament.

Croatian coach Slaven Bilic will step down as coach of the Croatian team and become the coach of Lokomotiv Moscow after the Euros.

Morten Olson has been coach of Denmark since 2000.

The oldest coach is Giovanni Trappatoni (73) The youngest is Paulo Bento (42)

Markus Rosenberg [Sweden] and Paul Green [Ireland] are the only two players that are free agents.

Manchester City have the most players heading to Poland/Ukraine (18)

Iker Casillas has the most caps (129) Miroslav Klose has the most goals (63)

If Spain win, they will become the first team to win two consecutive Euros and a World Cup in between.

In total there have been 57 players ruled out of the tournament with an injury. The most in European Championship history.

EDIT: Make that 58.

EDIT: MAKE THAT 59

• For the first time in the history the European Football Tournament will be held in the Eastern Europe.

• EURO 2012 will be the last with 16 teams in the final part. Beginning from the EURO 2016 in France there will be 24 finalists.

• The estimated value of the Cup made with pure silver and is worth € 20.000. Its height – 60 cm, weight – 8 kg.

• UEFA leases the stadiums and actually pays rent for them.

• The biggest of the host-stadiums in Ukraine will be National Sports Complex “Olympic” in Kyiv. It will have capacity about 70,000 spectators. The smallest arena is in Lviv and it can seat 34,000

• Among Poland’s stadium the biggest is the National Stadium in Warsaw that will seat some 55,000 . The smallest arena of EURO 2012 is situated in Wroclaw and has capacity of 42,000

Switzerland is ranked #14 in the FIFA rankings, they are the highest ranked team not to qualify.

Norway missed out on Euro 2012 by 6 goals.

Every team at the tournament will receive 8 million euros. 1 million euros will be given for a win in the group stage. 500,000 euros for a draw in the group stages. 2 million euros for a win in the quarter-finals. A semi-final victory will be worth 3 million euros . In the final, the winning team will be awarded 7.5 million euros n and the runner-up will receive 4.5 million euros . UEFA will also give 1 million euros to the team finishing third in the group

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