Team of the Tournament for Euro 2024: Six players from Spain

Spain became European champion for a record fourth time. Six players of this national team were in the team of the tournament for Euro 2024. Rodri received the award for the best player, while the best young player was Lamine Yamal.

Team of the Tournament for Euro 2024 – Spain deservedly make up the majority

Given that Spain won the title, quite logically, the largest part of the team of the tournament for Euro 2024 is made up of players from this national team. Six players from Spain make up the team of the tournament, namely: Marc Cucurella, Rodri, Dani Olmo, Fabian Ruiz, Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams. The players are deployed on the field in a 4-3-3 formation. The goalkeeper in the team of the tournament is from the team that Spain eliminated in the semi-finals. It is the French goalkeeper Mike Maignan.

The very fact that the goalkeeper of France was in the team of the tournament and not some player from the offensive part of the team best describes how France was at this Euro. Maignan was excellent throughout the tournament as he managed to keep four clean sheets and was not at fault for the two goals conceded in the semi-final.

In the defensive part of the team, there was another compatriot, William Saliba, who is responsible for the fact that his national team did not concede a goal in as many as four matches. He is also only the third Arsenal player to be in the team of the tournament for UEFA Euro after Patrick Vieira in 2000 and Aaron Ramsey in 2016.

In the defensive part of the team of the tournament, the assistant of the decisive goal in the final of this year’s Euro, Marc Cucurella, was fully deserved. Throughout the tournament, he worked brilliantly on the left side of the field with Nico Williams. He repeated himself tirelessly on that side of the field and was an insurmountable obstacle for his and rivals on the other side of the field.

England has only one player in the team of the tournament, even though they played in the final, but you have to be realistic that this is not a surprise because this national team was far from shining in Germany. The game seemed quite disorganized, so it’s no wonder that, as in the case of France, one defender of England found himself in the team of the tournament. Walker was also in the team of the tournament for the second time, because he got that recognition at the previous Euro, when England also stopped at the last step.

The last player to make the team of the tournament defense is Manuel Akanji. With Switzerland, he did not suffer a defeat during 90 minutes in any of the five games, but unfortunately he missed a penalty against England, which may have cost Switzerland a historic place in the semi-finals of the Euro.

The midfield team of the tournament consists of three players from the title winners. One of them is also the best player of the tournament, Rodri, who was the leader of Spain at this Euro and completely controlled the events on the field. In the final, due to an injury, he was forced to leave the game at the end of the first half. Fabian Ruiz gave him great support in the middle of the field, who also scored a great goal against Croatia. He showed Ruiz that he has a ball in his left leg.

Dani Olmo was also brilliant as were his midfield colleagues. He took advantage of the fact that Pedri was injured at the very start of the match against Germany, where he scored a goal. He scored a beautiful goal in the semi-final against France and in the end he saved his national team in the final so that the match against England did not go into overtime because he headed the ball off the goal line. He was one of six players who took home the title of top scorer with three goals. In the offensive part of the team of the tournament, there were two more Spanish players who marked this tournament.

Lamine Yamal broke all possible records, scored a spectacular goal in the semi-finals, recorded four assists including the one in the final and only a day after turning 17 years old, he won the title. Nico Williams was excellent on the other flank and it is not excluded that the two will become teammates in Barcelona after the Euro. Yamal assisted and Williams scored the leading goal in the final and he, like his younger compatriot, was brilliant throughout the tournament and caused many problems for the opponents with both his skill and strength.

The host of the tournament has one player in the team of the tournament as Jamal Musiala found his place, who with three goals was one of the players who won the title of the best scorer. It is not excluded that Germany eliminated Spain in order to further improve the performance, and neither he nor his teammates were lucky, since they ran into the best national team and the later conqueror already in the quarter-finals. The team of the tournament was chosen by technical observers, among whom were famous coaches such as Fabio Capello, Rafael Benitez, David Moyes, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and others.