The sport’s top stars will get plenty of attention at the coming European Championship
France's forward Kylian Mbappe controls the ball during a training session ahead of the UEFA Euro 2024 football Championship at the Home Deluxe Arena Stadium in Paderborn, Germany, on June 12.While doing commentary for TNT Sports on the Champions League final earlier this month, former England centre back Rio Ferdinand had the perfect vantage point to see one of the greatest teams in soccer history continue to separate itself from the chasing pack.
But then viewing team sports as a series of A-listers with a cluster of key grips for emotional support is hardly new. Ever since the NBA’s Lakers versus Celtics rivalry morphed into Magic versus Larry in the eighties, team sports have been increasingly viewed almost exclusively through the prism of the principal protagonists, and the coming European Championship is no different.
That all four Real Madrid teammates are the bookmakers’ favourites to lift the award on Oct. 28 is a nice bit of PR for the Spanish club. For the players involved, though, it’s a chance to step into the void that was created when Messi left Paris St-Germain to join Inter Miami in Major League Soccer last year.
Since then, though, Bellingham has barely looked back, playing in all five games for England at the Qatar World Cup, earning Bundesliga player of the season for Borussia Dortmund, before securing his dream move to Real Madrid last summer. In the Spanish capital he has belied his youth, taking the No. 5 jersey once worn by Zinédine Zidane, and leading the club to a Spanish league title and the European Cup, adding the Kopa Trophy, as the world’s best younger player, for good measure.
But that was 10 years ago, and Kroos has already retired from the national team since then, with the six-time Champions League winner walking away after Germany’s exit at the hands of England at Euro 2021. But he unretired earlier this year after being coaxed to do so by current head coach Julian Nagelsmann, although Kroos has since said he will hang up his boots for good at the conclusion of the tournament.
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