The european football championship euro 2008 will be the biggest meeting of the world's best footballers this year. Despite the absence of players from South America, Africa and other continents the list of names participating is more than impressive. Find our subjective assortment of players from all the teams below. We selected a number of impressive strikers, midfielders, defenders and goalkeepers - a list that makes a fan's mouth watering.

Complete your knowledge with biografical details of the stars and become a real expert yourself.
Maybe one of them will become the absolute star or a match winner in the euro tournament. Every single one in our list has the potential.

And let's be honest: talking and analyzing is at least half of the fun about watching football.



Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

Nani (Portugal)

Arjen Robben (Holland)

Wesley Sneijder (Holland)

Cesc Fabregas (Spain)

David Villa (Spain)

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden)

Michael Ballack (Germany)

Samir Nasri (France)

Franck Ribery (France)

Gennaro Gattuso (Italy)

Luca Toni (Italy)

Petr Cech (Czech Republic)

Niko Kranjcar (Croatia)

Artur Boruc (Poland)

Hamit Altintop (Turkey)

Cristian Chivu (Romania)

Theofanis Gekas (Greece)

Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Russia)

Philippe Senderos (Switzerland)

Andreas Ivanschitz (Austria)