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The Uefa Technical Team for Euro 2008 has released the list of 23 players named as the Team of the Tournament. In addition Spain’s Xavi Hernández has been nominated as the Castrol Player of the Tournament.
Xavi was chosen by the nine-strong group of 'experienced football technicians' who have been following all the matches at Euro 2008, who also took account of the internet users’ vote on the Castrol Performance Index website.
Golden Shoe winner Cristiano Ronaldo did not make the final team.
The official squad of 23 top performers is as follows:
Goalkeepers
Gianluigi Buffon (Italy)
Iker Casillas (Spain)
Edwin van der Sar (Netherlands)
Defenders
José Bosinga (Portugal)
Philipp Lahm (Germany)
Carlos Marchena (Spain)
Pepé (Portugal)
Carles Puyol (Spain)
Yury Zhirkov (Russia)
Midfielders
Hamit Altintop (Turkey)
Luka Modrić (Croatia)
Marcos Senna (Spain)
Xavi Hernández (Spain)
Konstantin Zyryanov (Russia)
Midfielders – Middle-to-Front
Michael Ballack (Germany)
Cesc Fàbregas (Spain)
Andrés Iniesta (Spain)
Lukas Podolski (Germany)
Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands)
Attackers
Andrey Arshavin (Russia)
Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russia)
Fernando Torres (Spain)
David Villa (Spain)Edited by omgukilledkenny 30 Jun `08, 8:47PM
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