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English players mourn after losing the European Championship final
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Italy is European champion. Coach Roberto Mancini's side defeated England
3-2 on penalties
in the final at London's Wembley Stadium
.
The "Football is coming home" choirs fell silent, the Italians sang about the "Notte magique", the magical night.
The international press review:
ITALY:
»La Repubblica«:
»Europe is ours.
Zoff, Riva, Rivera and Mazzola have found their worthy heirs.
After 53 years of grueling waiting, Italy is finally returning to the throne of Europe.
Perhaps it is no coincidence that it does so on July 11th, a date that has remained in the hearts of everyone because the Azzurri triumphed in Spain on the same day in 1982 (at the World Cup). "
»Gazzetta dello Sport«:
»Italy, we love you like crazy: We are European champions.
Football is coming home.
We can sing that, or even shout it, without risking insult to majesty.
Because football is also at home in Italy, a beautiful azure blue house.
We are on the roof of Europe. "
»Corriere dello Sport«:
»Italy is European Champion!
Azure intoxication at Wembley against England.
Mancini in tears, the azure party begins.
›It's coming home.‹ The trophy is coming to Italy.
We await him with open arms.
A fairy tale, the second European Championship triumph after 1968. A crazy ride, after the low point of the missed World Cup 2018 now the triumph at Wembley. "
»Tuttosport«:
»Legendary!
Italy is European champion!
England defeated on penalties.
Reality is even sweeter than dreams.
The darkness of 2018 without a World Cup and without hope is a distant memory: the national team is flourishing again at Wembley. "
ENGLAND:
“The Guardian”:
“For Gareth Southgate it had to be the penalties.
The personal story of England's manager was shaped by his decisive miss against Germany in 1996 in this stadium in the semi-finals of this competition.
Well, after 120 nerve-wracking minutes of England's first major men's final since winning the World Cup in 1966, it boiled up to a final nerve test. "
»Daily Star«:
»Not again!
A brave England loses in the heartbreaking European Championship final on penalties against Italy. "
»Mirror«:
»England's Broken Dream.
Unbearable pain - the heroic Three Lions lose on penalties. "
»Daily Mail«:
»The country in tears, after the next penalty fiasco.«
»The Sun«:
»Heartbreak again for the lions.
An agony when England lost on penalties.
But the lions made us proud. "
BBC:
“It hurts for England.
That is normal.
But the lingering feeling for England is pride.
From the players and on the players. "
SPAIN:
»As«:
»The Italy that did not go to the World Cup, that rebuilt itself in record time, that has not been there for a while, has the European Championships in Wembley with the familiar charisma, with the well-known favorable fate and won with penalties on his side.
Club strike for England (...) Europe is blue after the penalties held by Donnarumma, the hero of the night. "
»Marca«:
»Italy is immortalized in Wembley.
The Azzurra showcase their own maracanaço by beating England at the cathedral of football to win the second European championship in their history.
She had to wait since 1968, but it was worth the effort. "
»El País«:
»Wembley doesn't scare Italy.
The Azzurra, resilient and with rolled up sleeves, bring their second European championship and let an England fail that only wanted to secure its goal from the second minute.
The coach crashes again at Wembley, like in the semi-finals in 1996 when he was a player. "
PORTUGAL:
»Diário de Notícias«:
»The hand of Donnarumma completed the return of the Bella Italia Mancini to the titles.
The Italian team follows Portugal, which won the Euro 2016.
Presentation of the trophy by the hero of the final five years ago: Eder.
Cristiano Ronaldo was the top scorer in the European competition. "
FRANCE:
»L'Équipe«:
»55 years after lifting the only trophy in its history at home, the 1966 World Cup, England had been hoping for a new coronation for almost three hours before giving way on penalties after an unbearable tension. «
»Le Figaro«:
»53 years after their first coronation, La Nazionale won the European Championship on Sunday at the expense of England.
The reward for a great rebirth. "
AUSTRIA:
»Kronen Zeitung«:
»The old football king is› dead ‹, long live the new football king, Portugal as the title holder of 2016 is history - from the EM 2020 Italy's› Squadra Azzurra ‹emerged as a great triumphant!
19,383 days - more than 53 years - after the last European Championship win so far, an Italian team, Giorgio Chiellini, Ciro Immobile and Co., once again became European champions. "
»Kurier«:
»In the end, a penalty shoot-out should decide.
Always the declared fear discipline of the English.
And once again the English failed from the penalty spot.
Italy goalkeeper Donnarumma saved Saka's penalty and secured Italy the second European title after 1968. «
SWITZERLAND:
»Blick«:
»It's an Italian summer - un'estate italiana!
The European Championship trophy will not stay in London, it will go to Italy.
The Azzurri win in the 911 thriller! "
»Tagesanzeiger«:
»In 2017 the Italian national team had sunk deeper than ever.
Today the team plays more attractively than ever and wins the second European Championship title. "
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