Euro Summits 1960-2016: The Story of the UEFA European Championship by Jonathan OBrien

55 in stock

234mm x 152mm x 35mm

Pages: 416

Panenkas pearl of a penalty in Belgrade, van Bastens volley of a lifetime in Munich, Gazzas agonising near-miss at Wembley: over its six decades, the UEFA European Championship has thrown up many of the most memorable stories in football lore. Now it gets the history it deserves. Euro Summits is the first full retelling of the tournament, from its tentative beginnings in the late 1950s to its elephantine expansion in the mid-2010s. Taking in the USSRs early success, the grim violence of 1968, Frances cavalier feats on home soil in 1984, the sensational triumphs of no-hopers Denmark and Greece, Spains modern-day dominance, all the way up to Portugals shock victory in 2016, its a panoramic portrait of an event that captures a whole continents imagination every four years. Dramatic, detailed and teeming with compelling personalities like Michel Platini, G++nter Netzer, Hristo Stoichkov, Zinedine Zidane, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo, this is the complete story of a footballing event second only to the World Cup.