Dear ATPlus, Your works are astonishingly good and Your palettes fantastic.
Coming to the championship I already wrote therebout, but You apparently didn't read the thread.
Actually we lost too much time and energy teaching English team how to shoot penalties, teaching Germany how to annihilate their attack and middlefield to hope to face Spanish masters well fit to really engage them too, especially being one player less for almost half the match. Moreover our coach candidly admitted to have been so fair towards the players who performed well previously that he didn't put fresh ones, as needed, to replace either broken or exhausted players, like Chiellini (who caused Spanish first goal, thus a hard to recover unbalance), Motta, Montolivo, Cassano and Marchisio at least.
Anyway Spain is one level above all other teams in the world in the last years, so unlikely to be beaten by anyone anyway, least in our disastered conditions. We got a tie with them though at start, if You remind and we were the only one to score with them.
We're thus pretty happy to be second to them and going to play with them the tournament in South America where todays best team of the world only are admitted (Spain and us from Europe and I would remind that we're a four stars world champion and twice in European championship finals in the last three ones and a Germany team natural killer, whatever Lineker may have said for other; still hard to find a comparable team in Europe in the long term then, my friend, just like for Ferrari in Formula One) ...
Panta rei (everything flows)!