Euro 2020: Italy Vs. England.

EURO 2020 Recap

 Ricocheted And Into The Finals.

  Wembley Stadium, A Historic Venue, on  A Brisk Cold Evening--England.

The Country, Is A Cocooned In Endless Exhilaration. Not Any or other Event Of the Horizon Could Sperate The City Form The Moment Of The Horizon. Even Major Tennis Tournament, Wimbledon, The final, sits quiet And take The Short Corner As The Euro Championships Are To Take Place This Sunday. “It’s Coming Home,” That’s if The Home Team Can continue to hone At home.

England, The Euro 2020 Football(Soccer) Squad, One And The Same-- Battling Along  The Course That Leads To The Gold. Theirs Is A  Sports, A Beautiful Game, A spectacle Of Opulence The Vein of European Nobility. Football, Whose History Resides Along And Writhing   Naval Coast Of Great Britain. The Rules Of The Game “codified” there In England Where The Latest Entry Of Its Principled Play will Enter Another CChapterInto The records.

Euro 2020,  A Year in Postponement, Scrutinized Concemncement,  Congruent composition. It is Been The Tournament Of Its Times, the embodiment Of The World Not Yeailding To Force that Seek To Disturb Order Or Normalcy. A TOURNAMENT  Whose  Heartbeat is one palpitating On Heartbreak And Harmony,  its Exceitemnets  Only Briefly Charging out Of Wembley. Now Two Team Stand charged By The Moment In History, both Worth Great Familiarity To Their Environs set to Stage The Theatrics Of the Times.

The English, “The Three Lions,” The Team Are A Squad Of Players Disjointed; divided By Class, Heritage, And Clubs. Manage By Gareth Southgate Former Defender, Seasoned In English football History,  Drilling defense Identity  Into This English Squad, As Well Serving As The Embodied Conscience Of Group. Part Of Southgate’s Acclaim As A Manager Is His enriching Ability Counsel And Edify The Relationships Of Star Phenoms, at A Crossroads between Ego A Country. Southgate sereves As A Person-to-person Guru, “A Source Of Calm,” England’s Connecting Force Leading This Impassioned Group, Encouraging Them To Express Their Identity.  

Jordan Pick ford, The English Goalkeeper Has Been Indomitable, The Brits HAvent Surrender A Goal Through Five Games.

Football, The Sport, Its History Glorified Along The Walkways Of So Much Of History In A Country That Made The Most Of History, That’s Spans The Plains Of the Country, From Oxford To Abbey Road to Scotland Yard. Still, In Wembley, The Beautiful Game Has Not Been such In England for More Than Five Plus Decades.  England’s Soccer History Is Mired In Misery; Teams Talented But Haven't Translated Into Trophies. “ They Were AlwaysExpectedd To Win But Never Did.”

Throughout The Decades, England Has Hosted Several Tourneys, Including The Euro championship and World Championship; Right There in Wembley. The Premiere Ligue, Homed In Great Britain Is Home To Most Of all Successful Soccer Sojourner. Foreign Players Who Can’t resist the Attraction Of Competition And Compensation; As Well AS Englands Very Own Home Grown talent. Home Grown, Yes, But Whose ancestry Runs Through England’s History In Caribbean And Africa. Those Like Star Raheem Staling, Marcus Ashford, Or  Bukayo Saka Who have Inherited Engalnd’s Woes  Despite The Rite Of Passage, The Renown, the History. For England to Remove The stain, as The Epics Of Old Would Implore, “You cant Get The Gold Without Confronting The Dragon.”

“It’s Coming To Rome.” The voices Outside Of London, East—Southeast, Out On The Mediterranean, Echo, They Have Been Echoing Sirens Of Their Presences. They’re Still Here, In London As Well And Maybe “it is Coming To Rome” Is  Perhaps what should Be The choiring Refrain heading Into Sunday. It’s What  Should Have Been the Chouring  Refrain Heading Into The EURO 2021.

After all, The EURos Began There, in Italy. Yes, Italy.

The Country Is Conscious, In The Crux Of Sports Glory And Pandemic Pandering. The borders Open And Welcome Tourist, With The State Of Emergency Now In effect, Italy Will have To welcome In Italy. The Mediterranean was Once The  First Born Of The Deafening Death tolls Of The Coronavirus but has Defended it And Bounced Back. PaNdemirestrictionson Are still enforce, But it Done Little Too Quiet The Enthusiasm Of Italy’s Fervor For Football.

 “Every year is a big soccer year in Italy.”

The Italians, The Soccer Squad, Has Defended exceptionally In These Games, Some Might Argue Bterr Than England. Its Attacking Pattern Has Been Amongst The Highest In Aggressive Formation. “They Play With Great Energy. They Play With Great Style”. Italy Arrived At Group Stage Of The Euro 2020 Shockingly  Not Amongst Those Favored To Win it all. The Italian 27 Game, now 33, Stands As One The LongestWinning Steak Ion international Play To The Present. The Longest Ever Belongs To brazil In The Early and The Team Italy Drafted To Move Into Third Apkce, Spain In the late 2000s, Both Tied at 35.

But Whose To Blame For The Neglecting Of Italy?

Or  What Should spectators Have  Expected?  The Football Powers of Belgium, Portugal, And France were All Loaded With Waves  Of Football’s Weapon Of mass destruction. Golden boot Forward Christiano Ronaldo for Portland, Romalu Lakaku And Elen Hazard From Belgium, The French List Could Fill Out A Football team, An American Football Team. Italy Doesn’t have Anywhere Near the Satr Power. But These Giants Of European Football Would Fall, the Stone That Stunned Belgium Was Hoisted The foot Of the Italians In The Quarterfinals. France, The world Champs collapsed in Penalties, So Too The EURO Defending Champs Portugal. They Italy as The 1 Of 4 favorites to Win.  The Names On the Italian end Of Every Italians Footers, those  Such As Giorgio Chiellini, Leonardo Bonucci, OrForwardd FedericoChiesaa,  Have Not Near the Renown Of A Kane, Sterling, Rashford Even A Saka.  But They Have Been Just Defensively Dominant, If Not Beyond.  It is Like Face The Force Of Animal In Closed In Environment

This  Euro 2020, This England Squad Would Play All. Still, One of Their Tourney Games Away from Mother England, That Took Place In Rome against Croatia, Away from Wembley But The Squad Would March Out On A Voyage, Beyond The Island Exserts, Through the throes Of Europe And Beyond The Depths Of Themselves; Carving A New Road, A New Identity A New Hope.

Along The Trails Are Trials. They Would Meeface-to-face With An Old European Rival, Germany, A team bright, analyzing, and intense, A team That’s Given England Nightmares In The Wake of Dreams. “We Were EEmbarrassedAt at What Embley” AtThee Hands Of  Germany Former English Captian Rodney Marsh Recalls, in An Article For the Athletic. This Nightmare HHappenedIn In 1970 ThSequelal ToEnglands last Major Tiurnmnet Win in The world Cupmof 1966.

Coming Into Euro 2020 Germany, itself was Locked Into Its Own Nightmarish Times In the Tourney, After falling To France In The Semis Of 2016 Now Impassioned And Motivated To Send their Again Manager Into TTwilightOn the Highest of Heights The Matchup In against Germany one of Europe Heavy Weight Thought To End England’s Quest, A-Team, Whom the Three Lions Haven’t beaten In Nearly 55 years. Upon Their Demanding Dismantling Of Germany, And That Bit of history, England Became The Favorites Amongst The Groups. It followed Up Germany With The  Engulfing of Croatia In Rome, Which Steer The Foot Of Captain and Striker Harry Kane, Who had Two Of England’s Goals that Night,  Into  The Magic Moment Versus the Danes.

The Danes Have Been A Mythical wonder Of the Soccer World. The  Team  And The Nordic Country Narrowly avoided Disaster When Their Best Player Christain Eriksen suddenly Collapsed On The Pitch And Was Marvelously  Revived upon receiving Effective Care. The country Managing The Wrestling Waves Of  Policy as The Coronavirus Mounts Another Surge Across Europe.  

Most Proclaimed them the Danes Of Destiny, A Fairy Tale Run. One gIfted To Them A World of Momentum That COuld Direct them Into The Final. Through The The Eriksen Collapse And Beyond, The Danes Indelibly Etched Themselves Themselves In The Thoughts Of The Many On Lookers And Served To Some AS A Symbolic Resurgence Of football Post pandemic Heights Of Hope. The Danes Overcame, Early Tournamenent Losses; first at The Hands Of Their Nordic Neighbors In Finland and Overwhelming Powerforce Of The Might Brush Of Belgium. These Early Losses in the Group Stages That Dashed Any Dreams For the Danes To Advance pass The Round Of 16 Much Less Into The Semi-Final: A Spot The Danes Have Reserved In-Play In Consecutive Tournament Paly—No Matter, But The Danes, Lead by Kasper Dolberg, In The Stead Of Their Dominant In Feilder Ericksen. The Danish glory Was Never Amongst Those Believed To be Contenders. Flushed Along with Italy Across the Shores of The Dark horses like The Finish And Netherlands.

Kasper Hjulmand, The Danes’ Coach, Marched A Turnaround  From  Their Group Play Failing And Rose Into The Semis As The Favorite Of Theambiguouss Fan. The Danes dance Of Destiny Would Be Dashed By the Oddity Of Ill Define Rules, The Fragility, And Whimsicality OfHumanm Instability,  Unregistered Injury Substitution defeated on a penalty that shouldn’t have been: Tragedy. The Danes’ Had exhausted Their Magic It Appear until a response in the second period of extra time. But the Magic HAdn’t Exhausted, it is Transfused. England Embattled With And Amongst Themselves under The Weight Of Fallen History; Their Branding,  “ The Three Lion,” Stitched together,  tether By The Young Legs, Whose talent, Reminisce Of The English Squads Of The 2000s That May Have I some Respect inspired This Groups But whose play Has Come To Define English Woes And Haunting In Soccer History.

In Penalties, Striker Harry Kane Rescued His Fail Footer. It Richocette into His Field and The Nwt. It's Taken A Bitter Road Of Disappointment, Identity Crisis And  Luck To Get Them To Their First Euro Championship, England’s First Major Since 1966. For The Italians, One Of The Metatherian Highest Rated Squads, The Presumptive Favorites In the Wake Of The Eifel Falling, Its Been A Planned Course, WellExecutedd When Execution Had Not Gone As Planned. About Against Belgium’sFurtherr Calcfifided Ital the Best team ToContentd With It As The Tournament PUshd Ahead Unahinder. Then There is The Tournament itself. Many  Thought  A Superfluous Exhibition Whose Degrees In Danger Should Have It Dash Form The Line Of Football Itinerary. Not for The Obvious Travel And “logistic Nightmare” But On The Argument That Football Was Beginning To more net The Reign s Of Overblown With Exhibitions That Serve And Play Only To The Detriment. As it Were With A Number Of The Games Played, The EURO 2020 Tournament Was An Art ExecutedAgainstt Adversity. The Reslinecey Displayed In travel Through Euro 2020 Location, With Matches Held in Rome, the Netherlands Of Who Weathered the  Waves And Worries Of playing a tournament in 11 different countries in the midst of a pandemic. For, Some Italy was A Dark Horse Amongst Those Of the Likes Of The Danes. The Euros Played Out  In The Divine Wonder Of the Roman-Greco Narrative Of Irony. The Tournament Kick Off In Rome, Italy, with Italy, Inside The Walls, A 25% Capacity Crowd Perceiving The magnificence of Roma, Of The Lazio's Stadio Olimpico. There They Faced Taking On A Turkey. Now It Ends Sunday, In England, AAgainstEngland.

The Euro 2020 Muktied Venue Affair, An Ambitious Adventure For Any Stage In The History of The Sport, Not To Mention in the throes of A Pandemic, Made For Moments to Marvel Perhaps For The Foreseeable Future.

Italy Saved A rematch Against France By A Gesture Of Grace From The Swiss. The Sweet Swiss Also Swung Italy A Gesture  Of Good Faith When They Fell To Spain In the Quarter Gfting Italy The Opportunity to redeem A 2012 EURO Championship Loss.

Italy, The Nation, Has Had Far More Successful In Soccer Than Its English Counterpart, Underscored By The Above-mentioned Win Streak. But Italia  Has Another Quota Of History To redeem.  In 2017, Italy Failed To Qualify for The world Cup, The Crest Of The Winning Of Said Winning Streak. The Jarring Loss, Shut The Down On Italy In the Major  For The first time Since 1958. The Suffering, The “humiliating”  Loss In the Favor Of Sweden, sent Them home from the World Cup at the end of the group stage. Of Course, Italy Was not Alone Among the Major Nations To Crumble Along The Trails Of What Would Come To Be Beginning French Favor, The United States, And the Netherlands Also Missed Out.  In Italy, Soccer is Premium, Pre-eminent.  The Loss sent Italian football Into A Spiral. In The Moments After The Shattering Loss, Italy’s Coach step down. Question Arose About The Italians dedication to Play. “International soccer is no longer the (Italy)sport’s gold standard; its quality is not as high as once it was.” Italy, The Soccer Team and Its Managers Were Thrust Out Of Contention And Into the abyss of dread club identity crisis, Searching for Answer; Their Response; Look To The Future. That Future Is Now. That Future is Sunday. If the 2017 World Cup Failing served Italy’s Soccer “Apocalypse,” Then 2021 Is the Rapture.

Football May have Birthed in London But As A Mother to An Adopted child, Nurture And Nighted Under Its Guide, Football Has Meant More In Rome.

“Today it’s hard to live in Rome,” The Words of A City the Mourned the retirement of One Of The City Favorite Captains  Francesco Totti.

Musa Okwanga Of the ringer Got It Right When He wrote, “…The road toward triumph in a major soccer tournament must at some point take the form of an epic quest.”. This He He Spoke Of The Italian On The Summit Of Overcoming Spain In semis.

Now, Here In ThE Euro Championship, We Can’t Help but Acclaim England, Not Italy, who That’s Been Through The Trials And Is On The Verge Of triumph. European Football Is Coming Home This  Sunday. For Whence Its Came. Where It Been. Whose Home It’s Resided. Whose Heart It Hold.  England Could Care Less. Football” Is Coming Home.”

Petitions Are being Signed To ratify The Day following The Championship, July 12th As A Holiday, That Ofcourse If EEnglandWins, Which They Arent, Italy Is A Plus 1050 Favorite”. But England And suffocating Defense Could Mount A Petition Against The Italian Attack. Should The English Overcome The Odds.  “Sweet Caroline” Would Serve As the Music Of The Moment.

The EURO 2020 Round Of 16 Arrived And Vanished. With Its Passing The Vanquished Hopes Of the Lost. Portugal, the defending champions, Germany Poised To, Gives Manager Another chance A Legacy Defining chip Of Hardware. Former World Cup Runner Up In Russia In 2018, Croatia led By Luka Modric, B’lon Door Winner Of 2018. Belgium And Its Powerful Attackers. , Not To Mention  And Its France embarrassment Of Riches, Thrall Left  A  Jarred As the  Rounds clocked Down Into The Final. The English, A team A Messed Mired In Internal futilities  Exorcised Their Demons Of Apathy, Division, And Haplessness; To Strike Luck By The Boot of Striker Henry Kane. By The Onset OF The Quarterfinals A Matchup Between Italy And Belgium, The Agrandized Best Teams Remaining Amongst the Rank, Marked A Decisive  Point On The Tournament Trail. Their valor Crescented The Victor as The Presumptive Champion; Should They Hold Through Of course.

France Would Have fallen Short Of Its Gargantuan Expectations Irrespective Of Their Finish In The Euro Tournament. The Defending World Champs Were The Expected Favorites Since June. Then Came The Hand Of The Swiss, And the Foot Of Theirs And Soccer’s Brightest Young Star. The Return Of One Of Its Oldest Forwards And The Masterful Play Of One The Game Critically Divisive Fancy Fielders. It’s Possible The French were Tired. It’s Been A Long Season. It is Possible They Believe The Game Was Won, So Too the Tournament. This what I Thought When Said Critical Feilder Man United’s Paul Pogba Sweep In A Footer Clearing Swiss Goalie And Into The Back Of the Net; 3-1, within 15 mins Left. It Should Have Been, iw Ould Have Been. The Swiss Charged In Two Remarkable Goals. Then The Penalty Round. France Set the Pace, But Kylian Mpappe Falter And Fell into the Frame As The Fall Guy for the French Failure.  The Best Team Left in The Tournament.

There Is No Denying Over celebrating The Significance Of The Euro 2020 Championship. As the World Around Set forth for “Normalcy.” A Tournament For England This Team, At Its Core Is Emblematic Of A Nation in the throes of Cultural Identity. Form The Ongoing, Ensuing, endless enrapturing Of  Brexit. The Melted Down Composure Of Their Former Glorious Monarchy Turned MeloDrama.  to Prime Minister Boris Johnson Haphazrdly Managing The Corona Virus Crisis—From One False Assessment to Another. Italy, Frayed The Grim reaper From Its Door Only To Welcome Football to Rome… “FORZA Roma’”

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 Route to the final: England

Group D: England 1-0 Croatia (London)
Group D: England 0-0 Scotland (London)
Group D: Czech Republic 0-1 England (London)
Round of 16: England 2-0 Germany (London)
Quarter-finals: Ukraine 0-4 England (Rome)
Semi-finals: England 2-1 Denmark (aet) (London)

Route to the final: Italy.

Group A: Turkey 0-3 Italy (Rome)
Group A: Italy 3-0 Switzerland (Rome)
Group A: Italy 1-0 Wales (Rome)
Round of 16: Italy 2-1 Austria (aet) (London)
Quarter-finals: Belgium 1-2 Italy (Munich)
Semi-finals: Italy 1-1 Spain (aet, Italy win 4-2 on pens) (London)