The UEFA European Football Championship 2012 which this time took place in Poland and Ukraine has finished and has already become a history. The tumultuous applause and fans’ cheerleading chants have subsided. The success of the players as well as their failures have. Even the weather has sprang unexpected surprises and unprecedently changed the course of the game at the stadium in Donetsk.
Everyone has remembered the last day of the championship – an exciting game and the triumph of the Spanish national team that at Kiev Olympic stadium had defeated Italy with an impressive 4-0 victory. Spanish football players has asserted themselves for the second time running as the leaders of the continental championship. Altogether it is the third gold medal which the Spanish national team has won in the European Championship. The first one they obtained in 1964, the second one — in 2008, and, finally, a new victory — the third deserved reward on July 1, 2012.
David Silva, Jordi Alba, Fernando Torres and Juan Mata scored goals in the final game. Top scorers were defined at the end of the Euro football championship 2012. The are: Fernando Torres (the Spanish striker), Alan Dzagoev –the Russian international midfielder, Croat Mario Mandzhukich as well as Mario Gomez, representing Germany, the Italian national team striker Mario Balotelli, and Cristiano Ronaldo. Each of them has managed to score three goals against their opponents.
Spanish head coach Vicente Del Bosque celebrates the victory together with his team. Their triumph has granted him the status of the first-ever football coach who led the team to victory in the European Championship, the Champions League (200, 2008) and the World Championship (2010). According to Infostrada statistics the Spanish national team has been consistently showing excellent results over six years, having beaten their rivals in the last 62-games. Spanish fans believe that the team will meet their expectations and will become the best of 24 football teams in the next European Championships held in 2016 in France.
