EURO 2008 INFO

Fair players, players who make passes with precision, players who are not repressed by making entries in extreme supersonic ...

... -- All of them appear among the 20 best centrocampistas Performance Index Castrol to play the final phase of the UEFA Euro 2008TM.

More than any other area of a team, the midfield is recipient of a wide variety of types of players, with a variety of strengths and skills. And after the recent round of friendly matches, a far greater number of clubs and countries are also represented on the list of the ICC.

When played parties in the February 6, the Czech Republic had four players among the 20 best, which was sufficient to form a complete midfield. However, after the defeat at home by 2-0 against Poland, only Jaroslav Plasil and Tomas Rosicky (which has lost the top spot for the benefit of Dutch Wesley Sneijder) remain on the list.

The ICC rewards players for their important contributions in attack, as well as for their valuable defensive actions, and Sneijder is an excellent example of how, often, it's better to take the team to a mid fuller than a specialist player defence or an attacker.

Before recent friendlies, Sneijder had the highest score in Attack of the 20 best, but the lowest in defence. The set of the two put him in fourth place. The contribution of the player aged 23 to victory by 3-0 in the friendly match against Croatia in fact dropped its rating on attack, but a better performance by far outweighed the defensive, taking it to number one in the ICC.

Something similar has happened to the player Portuguese Maniche, who has risen eight posts. Despite the fact that his team lost by 3-1 against Italy, acting in defence of the player 30 years, which has just closed his assignment with Inter Milan, was good enough to place it in the eighth position in the classification .