Football: Torres wins Golden Boot award at Euro 2012
KIEV: Spanish striker Fernando Torres won
the Golden Boot award for top scorer at Euro 2012 edging out
Germany’s Mario Gomez, UEFA announced on
Monday.
The 28-year-old – whose goal in the 4-0 win over Italy in the
final made him the only player to score in two Euro finals – like
Gomez scored three goals and provided one assist during the
tournament.
However, UEFA gave it to him on the
tiebreak of having had less game time during the finals, the
Spaniard having had 189 minutes on the pitch compared to Gomez’s
280.
Four other players also ended up with three goals, Italian
striker Mario Balotelli, Portuguese captain Cristiano Ronaldo,
rising Russian star Alan Dzagoev and one of the revelations of the
tournament, Croatia’s Mario Mandzukic.
For Torres it sees him complete an incredible latter part of the
2011/12 season where he also collected FA Cup and Champions League
winners medals with Chelsea having been all but written off for the
majority of the campaign as he failed to fire for the English
club.
However, there was to be a let down for the former Atletico
Madrid and Liverpool star as he missed out on being named in the
23-man squad of the championship named by UEFA later on Monday.
While he came on as a substitute during the final – he also set
up Juan Mata for the fourth and final goal – rightback Alvaro
Arbeloa was the only one of the starting XI against Italy who
failed to make the UEFA squad.
- AFP/de
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can anyone be more lucky than him?
winning the FA cup and CL with chelsea. and now this.
what a joke!!