The History of UEFA European Championship

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History of European trophies (euro) really stems from the thought of the Secretary of the French Football Federation (FFF) Henri Delaunay within the late decades of the 1920. At that point, Delaunay see any imbalance between the 2 poles, during which Latin American countries are too sturdy for Europe. Uruguay won the Olympic gold medal in 1924 and 1928. In fact, Uruguay was appointed to host the first World Cup in 1930 in honor of his achievement.

Delauney plan is quite simple. Delauney need to multiply the frequency of matches between the countries of Europe by holding an interstate championship. Sadly, the Delauney thought ignored by UEFA (Union of European Football Association). UEFA's European club championships held instead that became called the Champions Cup, UEFA Cup and Winners' Cup began in 1954.

This makes Delauney very disappointed, till falling sick and died in November 1955. The death of one of the Elders of European soccer is incredibly shocking vary of UEFA officers. UEFA congress in 1957, Delauney previous plan was eventually approved. Congress additionally determined to France because the host of the primary European Cup in 1960 as a sort of homage to the Delauney. During this event, the Soviet Union (now Russia), who became champions once strand of Yugoslavia with the score 2-1 in overtime.

Since then, each four years event held a UEFA "Mini World Cup". This grand event development continues to happen. For instance the amount of participants who held a second European Cup in Spain, 1964, swelled from seventeen countries to twenty nine countries. These embrace marked swelling of the entry of England and Italy within the arena of European grand event as this. However the final stage's format is still same as the first time, that is four groups qualify for the finals. this point the host Spain within the final overthrow of the Soviet Union defending champion with a score of 2-1.

Because the amount of participants grew, the format of the competition was modified. every participant should be a champion and runner-up cluster prior to to qualify for the finals. This is the format that adopted by each European Cup event.

UEFA European Championship that ever held :

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