UEFA Euro 2012 23 best players over the course of the tournament. The group of eleven analysts watched every game at the tournament before making their decision after the final. Ten players from the winning Spanish team were selected in the team of the tournament, while Zlatan Ibrahimović was the only player to be included whose team was knocked out in the group stage. Fernando Torres tied with five other players on goals and with Mario Gómez on goals and assists; however, he played 92 fewer minutes than Gómez did, thus earning the title. Torres also became the first player to score in
History of the England national football team most talented player of the era, Paul Gascoigne and Southampton player Matt Le Tissier from the squad for the finals, ultimately bringing their international playing careers to an end. England were eventually knocked out of the World Cup on penalties, this time in the last 16 to Argentina, although the game itself had been galvanised by a wonder goal from 18-year-old striker Michael Owen, who had first been capped four months earlier. England should have progressed to the Quarter Finals however, as Sol Campbell had a goal wrongly disallowed. Glenn Hoddle revealed only after his team had been knocked out