...dominated global soccer for years, but has slipped in the past decade, with Spain winning the 2008 and 2012 European Championships and the 2010 World Cup.Brazil's soccer-mad supporters have been embarrassed to be relegated to 22nd in...

...team has not won a major title since the 1996 European Championship ? also in London.Eleven German national team...followed by a loss to Spain in the final of the 2008 European Championship was followed by semifinal defeats to Spain at...

...later.Beckham responded to jeering at the 2000 European Championship with an obscene hand gesture to England fans...England's unsuccessful attempt to qualify for the 2008 European Championship.His last England appearance came against Belarus...

...meaning fewer games.Internationally, Germans have been looking up to Spain for years: Germany lost the 2008 European Championship final to Spain and fell again to the Spaniards in the 2010 World Cup semifinals.Now, the Germans may have moved...

...in football. But you don't expect to say it quite so often of the world and European champions.During the European Championship last June and now in World Cup qualifying, the Spanish have come out on top without being wholly convincing...

...least until June or July, he figures.He skated to The Black Eyed Peas and Michael Jackson when he won the European championships in 2011.The following year, he found musical inspiration watching the animated movie Rio. Its dance-y...

...Bosque was voted top men's coach after leading Spain to its third straight title in a major tournament, the 2012 European Championship. Del Bosque got 34.51 percent to win over Real Madrid's Jose Mourinho (20.49), who won last year, and...

...stopping one man, while for Portugal it will be about containing a whole team when the two meet in today's European Championship semifinal in Donetsk, Ukraine.While Cristiano Ronaldo holds the keys to Portugal's chances of taking a...

...controlled the play Sunday in the European Championship final, as they usually do...first man to score in two European Championship finals, and Casillas played...perhaps the best of the entire European Championship. We made history."Four...

...after Platini's pet project suffered its biggest public failure, helping eliminate co-host Ukraine at the European Championship.A Hungarian refereeing team did not spot that a shot by Ukraine forward Marko Devic crossed the line before England...