European football selection

European football selection
Europe Allstars

confederacy	UEFA
Record scorer	Eusebio (7)
Balance sheet
18 wins 3 draws 8 losses
statistics
First international match England 3-0 Europe London , England ; October 26, 1938
Biggest win Yugoslavia 2: 7 Europe Belgrade , Yugoslavia ; September 23, 1964
Biggest defeat United Kingdom 6-1 Europe Glasgow , Scotland ; May 10, 1947
(As of March 24, 2009)

The European football team is a selection of European (or partly also active in Europe) football players who represent the continent of Europe in representative games.

Organization and staging of the games

The European soccer team competes in charity and anniversary games and has already raised millions for charitable causes. There were also farewell games for well-known, deserving football players such as Stanley Matthews . The games are irregular. The team is put together by the team's volunteer trainer. The players agree to participate in the team for free. They only train together for a short time. The stadium is used free of charge, so all income from the game is available for charity. The games were recently broadcast live on television.

Well-known selection trainers

(incomplete)

Nereo Rocco  Marcello Lippi  Arsène Wenger  Franz Beckenbauer  Helmut Schön

José Crahay  Karel Lotsy  Karl Rappan  Vittorio Pozzo

Well-known selection players

(Selection)

Belgium Raymond Braine Paul Van Himst Netherlands Johan Cruyff Patrick Kluivert Ruud Krol Johan Neeskens Faas Wilkes Denmark Allan Simonsen Germany Franz Beckenbauer Horst Blankenburg Andreas Kupfer Gerd Müller Karl-Heinz Schnellinger Uwe Seeler England Jimmy Greaves Geoff Hurst Kevin Keegan

France Alfred Aston Robert Jonquet Raymond Kopa Michel Platini Jean Vincent Zinedine Zidane Italy Alessandro Costacurta Marco Tardelli Dino Zoff Yugoslavia Dragan Džajic Vahid Halilhodžić Hungary Ferenc Bene László Kubala Ferenc Puskás Portugal Eusebio

Spain Fernando Hierro Alfredo Di Stéfano Sweden Bengt Gustavsson Gunnar Nordahl Austria Ernst Ocffekt Bruno Pezzey Further George Best Johnny Carey Denis Law Josef Masopust Mordechai Spiegler Willi Steffen

International results

date	opponent	Stadion	Result	European football team scorers	occasion
October 26, 1938	England	Highbury , London	0: 3		75th anniversary of The Football Association
May 10, 1947	Great Britain	Hampden Park , Glasgow	1: 6	Gunnar Nordahl	British return to FIFA
October 21, 1953	England	Wembley , London	4: 4	László Kubala (2 ×) , Giampiero Boniperti (2 ×)	90th FA anniversary
August 13, 1955	Great Britain	Windsor Park , Belfast	4: 1	Jean Vincent , Bernard Vukas (3 ×)	75th anniversary of the Irish Football Association (Irish Football Association)
May 20, 1964	Scandinavia	Parking , Copenhagen	4: 2	Jimmy Greaves (2 ×) , Denis Law , Eusébio	75th anniversary of the Danish Football Association ( DBU )
September 23, 1964	Yugoslavia	Marakana , Belgrade	7: 2	Uwe Seeler (2 ×) , Eusébio (4 ×) , José Augusto	Skopje Earthquake Donation Fund
April 28, 1965	Great Britain	Britannia Stadium , Stoke	6: 4	Godfried Vandeboer , Ferenc Puskás (2 ×) , Josef Masopust , László Kubala , Jackie Henderson	Farewell game for Stanley Matthews
December 8, 1970	Benfica Lisbon	Estádio da Luz , Lisbon	2: 3	Uwe Seeler , José Gárate	Farewell game for Mário Coluna
November 23, 1971	West Ham United	Upton Park , London	4: 4	Frank McDougall , Rodney Marsh (2 ×) , Jimmy Greaves	Game in honor of Geoff Hurst
May 1, 1972	Hamburger SV	Volksparkstadion , Hamburg	7: 3	Geoff Hurst , Ferenc Bene , Franz Beckenbauer , Gerd Müller , Kálmán Mészöly , George Best , Eusébio	Farewell game for Uwe Seeler
November 23, 1972	South America	St. Jakob Park , Basel	0: 2		Pestalozzi charity game
October 31, 1973	South America	Estadi Olímpic , Barcelona	4: 4	Eusébio , Salif Keïta (2 ×) , Juan Manuel Asensi , Kurt Jara	FIFA charity game
December 28, 1979	Borussia Dortmund	Westfalenstadion , Dortmund	2: 3	Safet Sušić , Vladimir Petrović	Game for UNICEF
February 25, 1981	Italy	Stadio Olimpico , Rome	3-0	Allan Simonsen , Vahid Halilhodžić , Tony Woodcock	Appeal for donations because of the flood disaster
June 2nd 1981	Turkey	Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium , Istanbul	0: 3		75th anniversary of Fenerbahçe Istanbul
August 12, 1981	Czechoslovakia	Letná Stadium , Prague	0: 4		80th anniversary of the Czechoslovak Football Association
August 7, 1982	Football world selection	Giants Stadium , New York	3: 2	Kevin Keegan , Bruno Pezzey , Giancarlo Antognoni	FIFA charity game for Unicef
4th December 1997	Football world selection	Stade Vélodrome , Marseille	2: 5	Marius Lăcătuș , Zinédine Zidane
February 16, 2005	Football world selection	Camp Nou , Barcelona	3: 6	Alessandro Del Piero , Gianfranco Zola , David Suazo	"Football for Hope" (Tsunami Fund)
March 13, 2007	Manchester United	Old Trafford , Manchester	3: 4	El Hadji Diouf (2 ×) , Florent Malouda	Game for the "Manchester United Foundation"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Stars descend on Manchester
2. ↑ ^{a b} Right in the middle instead of just being there ( memento of the original from June 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/815260?view=credit
4. ↑ englandfootballonline.com: "England 3 Rest of Europe 0" (accessed on September 9, 2016)
5. ↑ ^{a b} WXI History: 1930-1940
6. ↑ ^{a b} WXI History: 1950-1955
7. ↑ ^{a b} WXI History: 1960-1964
8. ↑ WXI History: 1965-1967
9. ↑ ^{a b} WXI History: 1970-1971
10. ↑ WXI History: 1972
11. ↑ WXI History: 1972
12. ↑ WXI History: 1973
13. ↑ WXI History: 1975-1979
14. ↑ ^{a b c} WXI History: 1980-1981
15. ↑ WXI History: 1982-1985
16. ↑ WXI History: 1997
17. ↑ WXI History 2005
18. ↑ Numerous goals and high income for the Tsunami Fund  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
19. ↑ www.fifa.com European Night at the "Theater of Dreams"