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The UEFA European Football Championship, [1] less formally the European Championship and informally the Euro or Euros, [2] [3] is the primary association football tournament organised by the Union of European Football Associations ( UEFA ). The competition is contested by UEFA members' senior men's national teams, determining the continental ...
Germany qualified for their sixth final in 2008, and faced Spain in a tournament co-hosted by Austria and Switzerland. A first-half strike from Fernando Torres was the only goal of the game, and helped Spain win their first European trophy in 44 years. The 2012 tournament final saw reigning European and World champions Spain face Italy in Kyiv.
Between the years 1960 and 2008, the Golden Boot award went to the top goalscorer of each edition of the UEFA European Championship. At Euro 2020, there was a new physical and digital trophy presented to the tournament's top scorer. It was commissioned by Alipay, the Chinese company sponsoring the award. "Sculpted in the shape of the Chinese ...
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final.
The Ballon d'Or ( French pronunciation: [balɔ̃ dɔʁ] ⓘ; lit. 'Golden Ball') is an annual football award presented by French magazine France Football since 1956 to honour the player deemed to have performed the best over the previous season. Conceived by sports writers Gabriel Hanot and Jacques Ferran, the Ballon d'Or was based exclusively ...
The FIFA Puskás Award [ˈpuʃkaːʃ] is an award established on 20 October 2009 by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association , at the behest of then-president Sepp Blatter, to be awarded to the male or female judged to have scored the most aesthetically significant, or "most beautiful", goal of the calendar year. The Puskás ...
The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year. In doubles, a Grand Slam may be achieved as a team or as an individual with different partners. Winning all four major championships consecutively but not within the same calendar year is referred to as a "non-calendar-year ...
Kerr did receive an Honorary Academy Award in 1994–ironically presented by Close. Greer Garson Eleanor Roosevelt: Sunrise at Campobello: Nominated 1961: Sophia Loren: Cesira Two Women: Won First person to win an Academy Award for a performance spoken entirely in a non-English language. (Italian, in this instance.) Audrey Hepburn Holly Golightly