Euro 2024 Team of the Tournament: Lamine Yamal, Cody Gakpo, William Saliba and others lead but star player missing
When football fanatics reflect on the 2024 European Championships, they may look back with a palpable sense of disappointment, as the tournament as a whole did not truly live up to the hype.
Whether it was players simply teetering on the edge of burnout after an unforgiving domestic campaign, managers matching one another tactic-for-tactic or a combination of factors, several teams and indeed performers failed to set the continent alight.
Germany’s 5-1 crushing of Scotland in the curtain-raiser may have provided some false hope for what was to come later in the competition, but in the end, the best team won, as Spain edged out two-time runners-up England 2-1 in the Berlin final to be crowned kings of Europe for a record fourth time.
From over 600 players to don their nation’s colours at Euro 2024, Go Viral TV whittles them down to an 11-man Team of the Tournament, which some honourable mentions along the way.
|Euro 2024 Team of the Tournament Summary
(4-2-3-1): Mamardashvili; Kounde, Saliba, Guehi, Cucurella; Rodri, Ruiz; Yamal, Olmo, Williams; Gakpo