Euro Cup 2012

For my blog entry today I wanted to talk about the Euro cup 2012, well because I like soccer, but also since it is nearby and it is one of my last blogs I would like to talk about it. For people who don’t know the Euro cup is an international cup that is played every 4 years, but also only teams from Europe are allowed to play. The Euro cup has 16 teams playing. It started in 1960 and it is governed by Union of European Football Associations or in other words UEFA, and it is a competion between men’s national soccer team across Europe. To qualify for the Euro cup, after the World cup the UEFA holds a sitting and they pick out teams in which they would put in random order into groups and after they would play each other away and at home, until they have all played each other. The first two teams at the top of the groups get to go to the Euro cup.

For this year’s Euro cup there are 16 teams playing which include: Poland, Greece, Russia, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Croatia, Ukraine, Sweden, France, and England. But also it will be held in Poland and Ukraine.  But also I forgot to mention that the teams hosting the Euro cup qualify automatically.  The tournament starts on June 8^th and finishes on July 1^st. the team that won the last Euro cup was Spain, and has 2 cups.