The UEFA Euro 2008 Final was the last match of Euro 2008, UEFA's competition for national football teams. The match was played at Ernst- Happel-Stadion (pictured), Vienna, Austria, on 29 June 2008, and was contested by Germany and Spain. The sixteen-team tournament had a group stage, from which eight teams qualified for the knockout phase. Germany lost to Croatia and beat Poland and Austria in Group B, and defeated Portugal and Turkey in the knockouts. Spain beat Russia, Sweden and Greece in Group D, and defeated Italy and Russia again in the elimination games. The final took place in front of 51,428 supporters and was refereed by Roberto Rosetti from Italy. Spain took the lead in the 33rd minute through Fernando Torres. There were no more goals and Spain won 1–0 to secure their second European title. Torres was named the man of the match. Spain went on to win the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, and retained their European title at Euro 2012.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units captured Fort Washington on Manhattan from the Patriots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Washington
1938:
Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD in Basel, Switzerland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann
1981:
About 30 million people watched the fictional couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber marry on the television show General Hospital in the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_and_Laura
1997:
Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng was released for "medical reasons" after spending seventeen and a half of the previous eighteen years in prison, and was deported to the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Jingsheng
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
circuitry: 1. (countable) A specific system of electrical circuits in a particular device; (uncountable) the design of such a system. 2. (uncountable) Electrical (or, by extension, other) circuits considered as a group. 3. (uncountable, figuratively) The brain's neural network. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/circuitry
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied. --Robert Nozick https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Nozick