Part 3 of our Kicking Off Euro 2012 series: a very loosely curated collection of various tournament previews. Clearly we haven’t read them all–this serves as a sort of list of bookmarks that we’ll try to return to over the course of the tournament:
Tournament previews & predictions:
- What To Watch At Euro 2012 | ESPNFC.com
- Euro 2012 Preview and Predictions | Political Footballs
- The Reducer: The Big Stories at Euro 2012 | Grantland
- Euro 2012: Our writers’ predictions, from winners to golden boot | Guardian Football
- Why Euro 2012 will rock | FourFourTwo
- Spain remain the team to beat on the road to Kiev | Daniel Taylor | The Guardian)
- Guardian Football’s Euro2012 Daily podcast’s preview episode (short video excerpt here, and embedded below)
Tactics:
- The tactics, trends and formations we should expect to see | Michael Cox | The Guardian
- The Big Three: Challenges facing Spain, Netherlands, Germany | Michael Cox | ESPNFC.com
- Smashing football stereotypes: How four of football’s best national teams have evolved | Michael Cox | ESPNFC.com
- Should Italy play 3-5-2 at Euro 2012? | James Horncastle
Players to Watch:
- Euro 2012: Five breakout players to watch | ESPNFC.com
- Euro 2012: Stars who could shine | BBC
- Six [young] players to watch in Poland and Ukraine | David Pleat | Guardian Football
- Why Mesut Ozil Will Be the Player of the Tournament | Bleacher Report
- What Will Zlatan Do? | Musa Okwonga | ESPNFC.com
- The Luka Modric mystique | Musa Okwonga | ESPNFC.com
- Robin van Persie: Can the Premier League’s best player fulfil his ambition with Holland – and Arsenal? | FT.com
- Understanding Cristiano Ronaldo | ESPNFC.com
- Why Andrea Pirlo is the most important player of his generation | Michael Cox | ESPN
- Andriy Shevchenko dreams Kiev final provides fitting end | Jonathan Wilson | Guardian Football
- Euro’s most infamous rogues | ESPNFC.com
Histories of the Euros:
- Tossed coins, tear gas and Three Lions: the fascinating history of the Euros | Jonathan Wilson | FourFourTwo
- VIDEOS – 50 Moments that rocked the Euros | FourFourTwo
Histories of the host countries:
- History of the Hosts: Poland and Ukraine | A Football Report
- Brotherly love, goalkeeping crises & refereeing scandals: The A-Z of Ukrainian football | FourFourTwo
- Holy wars, miners and underdogs: The A-Z of Polish football | FourFourTwo
- Welcome to Lviv, the cradle of Ukrainian and Polish football | FourFourTwo
- The man who revolutionized football | James Horncastle | ESPNFC.com (re Valeriy Lobanovsky and the birth of Total Football in Ukraine)
Concerns about racism & political issues:
- Concerns About Racism Precede European Soccer Championships | NYTimes.com
- Euro 2012: Stadiums of Hate | BBC Panorama
- Refereeing the Players, and Racism | NYTimes.com
- Panorama attacked over ‘sensationalist’ Euro 2012 racism claims | Football | guardian.co.uk
- Euro 2012: Netherlands ‘subjected to racist chants while training | BBC Sport
- Tymoshenko case: should the EU boycott Euro2012? | euronews
- Interview with Germany Soccer Team Captain Philipp Lahm on Ukraine – SPIEGEL ONLINE
- German captain Philipp Lahm criticizes Ukraine | News | DW.DE | 05.05.2012
- Lahm vs Platini, and the question of politics | Bundesliga Fanatic
- UK government boycotts Euro 2012 over Ukraine treatment of Tymoshenko | World news | The Guardian
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