May 2003 special

SPECIALS

EURO 2004
The statistics before the tournament

Players from national leagues

No.	Country	Number
1	England	57
2	Germany	51
3	Italy	46
4	Spain	36
5	Russia	26
6	France	21
7	Portugal	20
8	Netherlands	18
9	Greece	17
10	Latvia	11
11	Bulgaria	10
12	Switzerland	10
13	Ukraine	8
14	Denmark	7
15	Scotland	5
16	Belgium	5
17	Czech Republic	5
18	Sweden	4
19	Turkey	4
20	Austria	3
21	Israël	2
22	China	1
23	Croatia	1

Only Zoran Jankovic (Bul) playes in a non-European league (Dalian Shide in China).
Italy is the only squad with all 23 players from their own league.
Croatia only has 1 player from their own league.
England has the most foreign Euro 2004 players with a total of 36.
Juventus supplies most internationals with 9.
Followed by FC Barcelona (10) and Arsenal, Chelsea, Internazionale, SS Lazio, Liverpool, Manchester United and AC Milan (8).

Total internationals per squad

No.	Country	Int.
1	Latvia	990
2	Netherlands	976
3	France	946
4	Greece	763
5	Portugal	680
6	Sweden	657
7	England	644
8	Denmark	638
9	Germany	636
10	Italy	635
11	Czech Republic	633
12	Switzerland	621
13	Bulgaria	611
14	Spain	502
15	Croatia	501
16	Russia	378

Marcel Desailly has the most internationals with 115.
Other players with 100 or more : Frank de Boer (Ned, 110), Fernando Couto (Por, 106), Luis Figo (Por, 103), Vitalijs Astafjevs (Lat, 101) and Stephane Chapuisat (Sui, 100).
4 players without an international.
Only one player could be added to the 100+ club : Lilian Thuram (Fra, 98).

Striking power per squad

No.	Country	Rating
1	Spain	2,12
2	Portugal	1,99
3	Czech Republic	1,97
4	Netherlands	1,69
5	France	1,57
6	Sweden	1,46
7	Denmark	1,40
8	Germany	1,37
9	Italy	1,22
10	Switzerland	1,17
11	England	1,16
12	Russia	1,13
13	Greece	1,07
14	Latvia	0,95
15	Bulgaria	0,94
16	Croatia	0,69

Patrick Kluivert (Ned) scored the most international goals with 40.
Followed by Raul (Esp, 38) and Luis Figo (Por, 31)

Average age per squad

No.	Country	Points
1	Russia	26,05
2	Spain	26,07
3	England	26,21
4	Czech Republic	27,29
5	Portugal	27,30
6	Denmark	27,49
7	Germany	27,52
8	Croatia	27,56
9	Sweden	27,87
10	Bulgaria	28,11
11	Switzerland	28,28
12	Italy	28,53
13	France	28,74
14	Netherlands	28,86
15	Greece	28,91
16	Latvia	29,53

The oldest player is Jorg Stiel (Sui) from 03-03-1968.
Followed by Alexander Mostovoj (Rus, 22-08-1968) and Marcel Desailly (Fra, 07-09-1968)
The youngest player is Igor Akinfejev (Rus) from 08-04-1986.
Followed by Valeri Bojinov (Bul, 15-02-1986) and Johan Vonlanthen (Sui, 01-02-1986)