France:
GK (3): Steve Mandanda (Marseille), Grégory Coupet (Lyon), Sébastien Frey (Fiorentina)
DEF (8): Eric Abidal (Barcelona), Jean-Alain Boumsong, Francois Clerc, and Sebastien Squillaci (Lyon), William Gallas (Arsenal), Patrice Evra (Manchester United), Willy Sagnol (Bayern Munich), Lilian Thuram (Barcelona)
MID (7): Lassana Diarra (Portsmouth), Claude Makelele and Florent Malouda (Chelsea), Jeremy Toulalan (Lyon), Patrick Vieira* (Inter Milan), Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich), Samir Nasri (Marseille)
FWD (5): Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea), Karim Benzema and Sidney Govou (Lyon), Bafetimbi Gomis (Saint-Etienne), Thierry Henry (Barcelona)
*Captain
Italy:
GK (3): Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Marco Amelia (Livorno), Morgan De Sanctis (Sevilla)
DEF (7): Fabio Cannavaro* (Real Madrid), Marco Materazzi (Inter Milan), Christian Panucci (AS Roma), Andrea Barzagli (Palermo), Gianluca Zambrotta (Barcelona), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Fabio Grosso (Lyon)
MID (7): Andrea Pirlo, Gennaro Gattuso, and Massimo Ambrosini (AC Milan), Daniele De Rossi, Simone Perrotta, and Alberto Aquilani (AS Roma), Mauro Camoranesi (Juventus)
FWD (6): Luca Toni (Bayern Munich), Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus), Antonio Di Natale and Fabio Quagliarella (Udinese), Antonio Cassano (Sampdoria), Marco Borriello (Genoa)
*Captain
Romania:
GK (3): Bogdan Lobont (Dinamo Bucharest), Marius Popa (Politehnica Timisoara), Eduard Stancioiu (CFR Cluj)
DEF (9): Cosmin Contra (Getafe), Razvan Rat (Shakhtar Donetsk), Gabriel Tamas (Auxerre), Cosmin Moti and Stefan Radu (Dinamo Bucharest), Dorin Goian and Sorin Ghionea (Steaua Bucharest), Cristian Sapunaru (Rapid Bucharest), Cristian Chivu* (Inter Milan)
MID (7): Mirel Radoi, Nicolae Dica, and Banel Nicolita (Steaua Bucharest), Florentin Petre (CSKA Sofia), Paul Codrea (Siena), Razvan Cocis (Lokomotiv Moscow), Adrian Cristea (Dinamo Bucharest)
FWD (4): Ciprian Marica (Stuttgart), Adrian Mutu (Fiorentina), Marius Niculae (Inverness CT), Daniel Niculae (Auxerre)
*Captain
Note: Holland’s final roster was already named.
why not just add the holland team for sake of completion. not everyone knows that the team was announced a week or two prior. same goes for the other nations that announced their 23-man squads early.
no clichy or sagna on the french team.
shocking.
Betsy, I added the Holland squad late last night, so it’s on the first page and all you have do is scroll down.
Alex (I’m not calling you Tomas Rose-hickey), there just wasn’t room for either of them. Clichy is third on the totem pole behind Abidal and Evra, although I guess you could argue that Clichy should be in the team over Abidal. Sagna was never going to get in the team with Sagnol already there.
http://www.epltalk.com/hollands-euro-2008-squad/2203
There you go, Betsy.
I’d take Sagna over Boumsong at any position on the field
Hopefully it is Diarra or Toulalan in the middle for France alongside Vieira.