Euro - 2016

Euro - 2016 will start tomorrow in France amid lots of security risks.  After a long and hectic domestic and regional championships the players are coming as one  - under ones country's banner.  I love La Liga and Premier League a lot.  My favourite team is FC Barcelona for the last 6+ years  but i love watching Man U , Juve ,  Real and to some extend Atletico.  Now whom to support?

As a non-playing country's fan I have big dilemma to choose the team to support, me being a football fan loves good matches.  we always support of Italy- i really  don't know why. I used the word WE because the whole of my street supports them. Another two teams which gets the same support are Brazilian football team and West Indies Cricket team.  I have asked my uncle many times why we support these three teams always, he replied " don't know" , it was like that for a long time. No one knows the answer.

Italy will remains  our favourite for this tournament also. Personally I think France has good chance to win the championship, they have good combination of youth and experienced players. Also home advantage and familiarity will help France. Next comes Spain - lately they struggled but if everything goes well they will be devastating on that day, they have enough fire power to do that. Then comes Germany -same like Spain they are struggling lately but they are very dangerous .

I don't know why something in my mind says Poland will surprise everyone this time. My dark horses are Poland and England. England are perennial under achievers. Most Singaporeans support England - I always intrigued by this, may be because of Premier League.  Rashford is a good young player . It will be very interesting how Hodgson is going to use Vardy, Kane and Rooney along with some youngsters.

Players to watch :

1) Antoine Griezmann (France)
2) Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)
3)Thomas Muller (Germany)
4)Paul Pogba(France)
5)Leonardo Bonucci(Italy)

Hoping for exciting and controversy free matches.