Monday, July 5, 2021 - Issue # 7.2.3 "There Were Six Singularities"
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| ITA - Italian Rep(Italy) Gli Azzurri (The Blues) Federazione ItalianaGiuoco Calcio (FIGC) | ESP - Kingdom of Spain La Roja (The Red One) Real FederaciónEspañola de Fútbol (RFEF) | |||
| #7 | 1A | Winner | 5-0-0 6th Semifinal ('68, '80, '88, '00, '12) A1: Beat Turkey 3-0 A4: Beat Switzerland 3-0 A6: Beat Wales 1-0 R16: Beat Austria 2-1 (ET) QF: Beat Belgium 2-1 | #6 | 2E | Runner-Up | 2-0-3 5th Semifinal ('64, '84, '08, '12) E1: Tied Sweden 0-0 E4: Tied Poland 1-1 E5: Beat Slovakia 5-0 R16: Beat Croatia 5-3 (ET) QF: Beat Switzerland 1:1 (PSO 3:1) | |||
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| ENG - England Three Lions The Football Assoc (The FA) | DEN - Kingdom of Denmark De Rod-Hvide (The Red-White) Dansk Boldspil-Union (DBU) | |||
| #4 | 1D | Winner | 4-0-1 3rd Semifinal ('68, '96) D1: Beat Croatia 1-0 D4: Tied Scotland 0-0 D6: Beat Czech Rep 1-0 R16: Beat Germany 2-0 QF: Beat Ukraine 4-0 | #10 | 2B | Runner-Up | 3-2-0 4th Semifinal ('64, '84, '92) B1: Lost to Finland 1-0 B4: Lost to Belgium 2-1 B6: Beat Russia 4-1 R16: Beat Wales 4-0 QF: Beat Czech Rep 2-1 | |||
THE ONE-YEAR LATER TORUNEY HAS BEEN A GEM
Semifinals begin Tuesday; a Marvel Infinity Stone look at the tourney
HOME, CA (smt) - As Marvel's Avengers begin Phase 4 of their saga a year late (with seemingly TV's WandaVision, Falcon & Winter Soldier, and thus far, Loki (2 eps left) not progressing any grand story (but nonetheless entertaining as a standalone series) and pretending Phase 3 never really happened), I wondered how the one-year wait for the Euro 2020 (not 2021) tournament was going to be. Would there be fans? Would teams have to withdraw due to COVID-19 positive tests? Would the tournament be consolidated into one location bubble? Luckily, everything has been pretty normal with only the near death of a player on the pitch shocking the world. Well, normal if you consider France, Portugal, Netherlands, and Belgium bowing out way too early. And normal if you think teams will only have to wait 16 months (rather than 24 due to a winter World Cup) to get another shot at redemption on the grand stage.
Euro 2020 seemed to have harnessed the power of the Infinity Stones, six immensely powerful gem-like objects tied to different aspects of the universe, to pull off a well-run tournament (so far!). The first Euros with VAR, there have only
