France Team UEFA Euro Cup 2008

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Raymond Domenech, the coach for France for the UEFA Euro 2008 Cup (who also lead the French team to the final of the World Cup 2008 in Germany), has juts introduced the provisional list of 30 fooball players who will represent France in the European Championship in Austria and Switzerland.

France is in the most difficult group of the UEFA Euro 2008 Cup, the Group C, along with Italy, the Netherlands and Romania. The first game of "Les Bleues" will be against Romania on June the 9th, at 18:00 in the Letzigrund Stadium, in Zurich, Switzerland. The other game of the day, will be the Netherlands against Italy, at 20:45, in the Stade de Suisse in Berne, also in Switzerland.

France will have 3 friendly games before the beginning of the UEFA Euro 2008 Cup: on the 27th of May against Ecuador, in Grenoble; against Paraguay in Toulousse on the 31th of June and against Colombia, on June the 3rd in Paris. France is one of the few teams that will play so many games before the beginning of the UEFA Euro 2008 Cup on June the 7th.

This is the list of players of the France Team / Squad by Raymond Domenech:

Strikers of France for the UEFA Euro 2008 Cup: Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München, Germany), Florent Malouda (Chelsea FC, England), Sidney Govou (Olympique Lyonnais, France), Samir Nasri (Olympique de Marseille, France), Hatem Ben Arfa (Olympique Lyonnais, France), Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea FC, England), Thierry Henry (FC Barcelona, Spain), Karim Benzema (Olympique Lyonnais, France), Djibril Cissé (Olympique de Marseille, France), Bafétimbi Gomis (AS Saint-Etienne, France).

Midfielders of France for the UEFA Euro 2008 Cup: Alou Diarra (FC Girondins de Bordeaux, , France), Mathieu Flamini (Arsenal FC, England), Patrick Vieira (FC Internazionale Milano, Italy), Claude Makelele (Chelsea FC, England), Jérémy Toulalan (Olympique Lyonnais, France), Lassana Diarra (Portsmouth FC, England).

Defenders of France for the UEFA Euro 2008 Cup: Willy Sagnol (FC Bayern München, Germany), Lilian Thuram (FC Barcelona, Spain), William Gallas (Arsenal FC, England), Eric Abidal (FC Barcelona, Spain), Patrice Evra (FC Manchester United, England), Jean-Alain Boumsong (Olympique Lyonnais, France), François Clerc (Olympique Lyonnais, France), Julien Escudé (Sevilla FC, Spain), Philippe Mexès (AS Roma, Italy), Sébastien Squillaci (Olympique Lyonnais, France).

Goalkeepers of France for the UEFA Euro 2008 Cup: Grégory Coupet (Olympique Lyonnais, France), Mickaël Landreau (Paris Saint-Germain FC, France), Sébastien Frey (ACF Fiorentina, Italy), Steve Mandanda (Olympique de Marseille, France).

The list of players of France for the UEFA Euro 2008 Cup is impressive. However, it is interesting how the French team is not one of the favourites to win the European Tournament. Germany, Portugal, Greece, the Czech Republic, Italy or Spain are among the favourites to win the UEFA Euro 2008 Cup this summer; and France, who was achieved a second place in the last Worl Cup in Germany, is absent from the list.

In our poll, France is not among the top 5 favourites, which is your favourite team to win the UEFA Euro Cup 2008? Did you vote already?

And here is a very good video of the penalty shoot-out of the final France vs Italy from the last World Cup in Germany in 2006, narrated in Italian: