Interesting Facts Euro - 2012: the results

After the tournament in Ukraine and Poland, we decided to share with you the final portion of the interesting facts of this great sporting event. But the facts had accumulated quite an impressive number.

Some of them may be quite obvious, but we decided nevertheless to fix them.

The winner of Euro 2012, the Spanish national team, became the only team in the world, winning the European Championship two tournaments in a row.





In the final match against Italy it has recorded the biggest win in the history of 4: 0.



Just eight Spaniards went down in history as the players who participated twice in the victory of the European Championship finals.



Fernando Torres was the only player to score in two finals of the European championships.



Just six players became the best scorer of the tournament, and the two of them played in a team-finalists Fernando Torres and Mario Balotelli. The first is still considered the best since played a total of just over two fights.



The best player of the tournament was recognized as the Spaniard Andres Iniesta.



The best player on overall tactical and technical actions was named one Spaniard - defender Sergio Ramos.



According to the "goal + pass" as the Spaniard was the best - David Silva, who scored twice and gave three assists.



Best passer - Xavi Hernandez. During the tournament, he gave an accurate pass 531, or an average of 89 precision gears for each game.



The symbolic team championship came just 10 players for Spain, four from Italy and Germany, three in Portugal and one each from England and Sweden.



Andriy Shevchenko became the oldest author of doubles in the finals of the European championships. At the moment of the match with the Swedes Andrew was 35 years and eight and a half months.



The total number of goals scored in the final part - 76.



The most productive in the tournament became the Spaniards (12 goals). They scored an average of two goals per game.



The same figure for the Germans, but they have played a game less.



Author of the only own goal in the tournament was an Englishman Glen Johnson.



The only goal scored from the penalty Italian Andrea Pirlo.



The most productive game took place between the Germans and the Greeks in the quarter - 4: 2.



The Netherlands - the only team in the matches with which not scored a single ball head.



The most quick-goals from Czech and Croatian Mandzukic Yirachek, scoring in the third minute.





Most later he scored German Mesut Ozil goal against Greece in the second minute of the compensated (90 +2).



Spanish team earned the most bonus - EUR 23 million.



Less all taken away the Dutch and Irish - 8 million for each team.





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