Can you guess which are the most valuable football teams and the most valuable footballers who will play at Euro 2016? The European Football Championship 2016 is just around the corner. At the football event of the year, 24 national teams will fight for the title of European champion in France. Unfortunately, there will be no Slovenian among them. We believe that you already know them before visiting, so we reveal something that you don't know yet: the market values of individual national teams and their hottest footballers who will be playing in the 14th European Football Championship. It will be opened by a match between hosts France and Romania on June 10, 2016, and will run until July 10, 2016.
The fever is rising! We are only a few days away from the referee's first whistle on European Football Championship: Euro 2016. You know the names, but you don't know the Euro numbers that are behind the national teams and the national teams that will be in France competed for already 14th title of the champion of the old continent; defend him Spain, which defeated Italy in the final at the stadium in Kyiv in 2012. At Euro 2016 we will be able to admire some of the best and the most expensive footballers in the world, including Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, Wales' Gareth Bale and Germany's Thomas Müller. The Hungarian national team, which will be at the Euros, will also be there for the first time since 1972 and it is estimated at a fifth of the value of the Portuguese soccer pearl by market value!
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Web page transfermarkt.co.uk, which buried itself in current numbers, is different rated Germany the best among the national teams, which according to her estimates is valuable 544.8 million euros, followed by the current European champion Spain, which is "heavy" at 540.4 million euros. It is somewhat surprising that it is in third place Belgium, whose market value is estimated at 446.9 million euros. Next comes the hostess France, and completes the five England. By far the cheapest is the Hungarian national team, which is worth a twentieth of the value of the German national team (20 million euros), but as we know, millions do not yet bring titles.
The most valuable player at this year's European football championship will be Cristiano Ronaldo, which is estimated at 107 million euros, follows him Thomas Müller, which is attributed a value of 72.4 million euros, and third place is shared by Poljak with an estimated value of 68.5 million euros Robert Lewandowski and French Eden Hazard. Gareth Bale is not included in this ranking because the Wales national team is not among the 10 most valuable football teams that will play at Euro 2016 (it sits in 12th place with a value of €163.5 million).
Euro 2016 – the most valuable football teams and representatives (values are in millions of euros):
1. Germany: 544.8/Thomas Müller: 72.4
2. Spain: 540.4/Sergio Busquets: 49.1
3. Belgium: 446.9/Eden Hazard: 68.5
4. France: 440.1/Paul Pogba: 68.5
5. England: 432.4/Raheem Sterling: 49.1
6. Portugal: 311.9/Cristiano Ronaldo: 107.3
7. Croatia: 263.9/Luka Modrić: 49.1
8. Italy: 263.7/Leonardo Bonucci: 29.7
9. Turkey: 180.3/Arda Turan: 33.6
10. Poland: 169.9/Robert Lewandowski: 68.5
11. Switzerland: 167.3
12. Wales: 163.5
13. Russia: 129.4
14. Ukraine: 124.7
15. Austria: 124.5
16. Slovakia: 88.3
17. Ireland: 86.6
18. Sweden: 84.1
19. Czech Republic: 62.4
20. Romania: 54.3
21. Iceland: 40.3
22. Albania: 39.7
23. Northern Ireland: 34.8
24. Hungary: 26.5
More information:
uefa.com