EURO 2008 INFO

Uefa said today that it is "absolutely extraordinary" monitoring the Euro is being done on television after the dispute in the first eight matches.

With peaks of 80 per cent share in some cases, the Uefa said today that there are countries like Portugal and Holland, where the tournament has almost filled the hearing.

"In Portugal, we had about 80 percent, with 2.6 million viewers for its opening match against Turkey. In Turkey, 82.5 percent, to the encounter against Italy," said Christian Mutschler, director of the tournament in part Switzerland, at the press conference that since the stadium S. Jacob of the Basle Uefa also transmitted to Ernts Happel in Vienna.

In Poland, the encounter against Germany, powered by controversy after all, it saw 23.7 million viewers (69.6 share screen), while the Netherlands-Italy was the one who attracted most attention to "neutral government".

What followed the 41.7 percent of viewers in Austria and 1.1 million people in Switzerland (57.8 percent), a figure that surpasses any game of Euro 2004, apart from the final.

The Germans also continued the massive goals to Italy (14.9 million viewers).

For the communication director of the Uefa, William Gaillard, "The figures in Germany-the Netherlands and Italy are staggering in Holland make it, probably in the most-watched program in television history Dutch."

"I do not think it is possible to achieve that over 80 percent of the population see a television program at a time when there are so many channels. It's almost historic," he said.

The figures fall significantly in the UK, where the absence of all the British teams had made the Euro has started with little monitoring.

The Netherlands-Italy, star of this game first day, not attracted more than 6.2 million viewers, below the 30 percent share.