{"id":10586,"date":"2021-07-13T17:51:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=125548"},"modified":"2021-07-13T17:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:21:19","slug":"the-official-euro-2020-team-of-the-tournament-includes-5-players-from-italy-3-from-england-but-no-golden-boot-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/the-official-euro-2020-team-of-the-tournament-includes-5-players-from-italy-3-from-england-but-no-golden-boot-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Official Euro 2020 team of the tournament includes 5 players from Italy & 3 from England  but no Golden Boot winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official UEFA Euro 2020 team of the tournament got revealed on Tuesday that involves five players from the newly crowned European Champions Italy, three from the championship\u2019s finalists England and no golden boot winner, Cristiano Ronaldo, France\u2019s Kylian Mbappe or Poland\u2019s Robert Lewandowski.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc55\ud83d\ude4c Introducing the official Team of the Tournament for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EURO2020<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Who would be your captain? \ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/goGLi6qQzj\">pic.twitter.com\/goGLi6qQzj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA EURO (@UEFAEURO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UEFAEURO\/status\/1414881871167688707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Federico Chiesa alongside Raheem Sterling who scored three goals in the tournament this year and Romelu Lukaku of Belgium were entailed in the attacking trio. Lukaku netted four goals in four matches, the Belgian striker is the only one of the six top scorers to be encompassed in the lineup of Euro 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Kylian Mbappe failed to score in four games and had misplaced the crucial penalty kick that was saved and France was eliminated by Switzerland in the Round of 16 in the penalty shootouts despite Karim Benzema\u2019s brace.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski of Poland, the current FIFA best player in the world netted thrice in three games which were not enough as his side ended last in its group.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal\u2019s Cristiano Ronaldo scored five goals tying with Czech Republic\u2019s Patrik Schick but the Golden Boot was awarded to Ronaldo because of the assist he provided against Germany while Patrik ended up with none.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UEFA Euro 2020 Team of the Tournament:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Italy)<\/p>\n<p>Defenders: Kyle Walker (England), Leonardo Bonucci (Italy), Harry Maguire (England), Leonardo Spinazzola (Italy)<\/p>\n<p>Midfielders: Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (Denmark), Jorginho (Italy), Pedri (Spain)<\/p>\n<p>Forwards: Federico Chiesa (Italy), Romelu Lukaku (Belgium), Raheem Sterling (England)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official UEFA Euro 2020 team of the tournament announced that includes five players from Italy and three from England. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":33063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1234,321,2320,2297,2318,2319,720,2150,2298,2296,1194,378,424,1765],"class_list":["post-10586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-belgium","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-federico-chiesa","tag-gianluigi-donnarumma","tag-harry-maguire","tag-jorginho","tag-kyle-walker","tag-leonardo-bonucci","tag-patrik-schick","tag-pedri","tag-pierre-emile-hojbjerg","tag-raheem-sterling","tag-romelu-lukaku","tag-uefa-euro-2020"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}