Have we all recovered from Chelsea thrillingly parking the bus for 300 straight minutes en route to becoming the European club champions? Luckily for everyone but Chelsea fans (who might never stop celebrating this improbable championship run) we have another huge soccer event coming up in just 17 days. The event I'm talking about is of course Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, UEFA's premier international competition where 16 nations (this number will rise to 24 starting with Euro 2016 in France simply so UEFA can make more money) compete to become Europe's best footballing nation. With the competition just 17 days away I thought it'd be a good idea to do a countdown to Euro 2012 with a new blog post each day leading up to the tournament.
Each blog post will be a team preview of each of the participating countries starting with the team I think has the least likely shot at winning followed by teams with better chances until June 7 (one day before the tournament starts) where I will write about the team I believe will win it all (spoiler alert: it will be Spain unless there's an injury). Why do this? For one it will give me an opportunity to write something about I like each day until the tournament starts but more importantly because my country's (Serbia) team didn't make the competition, this will give me an opportunity to learn about each country's squad and which ones will be fun to watch and which certainly won't (I'm looking at you Greece). Not having your country qualify does have benefits as you can watch the games from the outside simply cheering for your favourite player or for a good competitive game as opposed to being completely emotionally connected to your nation's performance. With that being said though, I would still immediately trade the passive outsider feel of watching the tournament for the slim chance at having Serbia win the trophy even with the sure emotional scarring that comes with being invested in any sport. Let's just move on before I start to get sad about how we couldn't beat Estonia even once in our qualifying group.
Hopefully these posts will be fun and entertaining reads as we learn more about the teams that will participate in this year's European Championship.
I'll leave you with the official song for Euro 2012, Endless Summer by Macy Gray Oceana.
Until tomorrow when the countdown begins with team #16!
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