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Xavi Named Player Of Euro 2008

• omgukilledkenny

  30 Jun 08, 20:45

  

  The Uefa Technical Team for Euro 2008 has released the list of 23 players named as the Team of the Tournament. In addition Spain’s Xavi Hernández has been nominated as the Castrol Player of the Tournament.
  
  Xavi was chosen by the nine-strong group of 'experienced football technicians' who have been following all the matches at Euro 2008, who also took account of the internet users’ vote on the Castrol Performance Index website.
  
  Golden Shoe winner Cristiano Ronaldo did not make the final team.
  
  The official squad of 23 top performers is as follows:
  
  Goalkeepers
  Gianluigi Buffon (Italy)
  Iker Casillas (Spain)
  Edwin van der Sar (Netherlands)
  
  Defenders
  José Bosinga (Portugal)
  Philipp Lahm (Germany)
  Carlos Marchena (Spain)
  Pepé (Portugal)
  Carles Puyol (Spain)
  Yury Zhirkov (Russia)
  
  Midfielders     
  Hamit Altintop (Turkey)
  Luka Modrić (Croatia)
  Marcos Senna (Spain)
  Xavi Hernández (Spain)
  Konstantin Zyryanov (Russia)
  
  Midfielders – Middle-to-Front
  Michael Ballack (Germany)
  Cesc Fàbregas (Spain)
  Andrés Iniesta (Spain)
  Lukas Podolski (Germany)
  Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands)
  
  Attackers
  Andrey Arshavin (Russia)
  Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russia)
  Fernando Torres (Spain)
  David Villa (Spain)

• a-Lost-9uY

  30 Jun 08, 20:57

  tats really nice

• Trump_Card

  30 Jun 08, 21:00

  How come got no Sergio Ramos ?

• sand king

  30 Jun 08, 21:07

  Damn, i wished there was a clean sheet of Italians.

• thoreldan

  30 Jun 08, 21:31

  confirm these players' value will go up after the tournament

• gunner77

  30 Jun 08, 22:49

  no doubt

  the best player, consistence and calm.

• dinky1409

  30 Jun 08, 23:57

  YAH Y GOT NO RAMOS I RIKE RAMOS! :P

• brokenluv

  1 Jul 08, 01:10

  lahm made so many errors yet in it?