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August 6, 2020

Every national team’s captain at every past EURO (part 1)

So far, there have been 14 different captains who have won a EURO, with Iker Casillas the only one to have skippered two teams to victory. Meanwhile, seven other men have led their national teams at the finals of the tournament as both captains and coaches, including:

  • Denmark’s Morten Olsen (captain: 1984, 1988; coach: 2004)
  • England’s Kevin Keegan (captain: 1980; coach: 2000)
  • France’s Didier Deschamps (captain: 1996, 2000; coach: 2016)
  • France’s Michel Platini (captain: 1984; coach: 1992)
  • Germany’s Rudi Völler (captain: 1992; coach: 2004)
  • Germany’s Franz Beckenbauer (captain: 1972, 1976; coach: 1988)
  • Italy’s Dino Zoff (captain: 1980; coach: 2004)

Now, let’s have a look at the list of the EURO players who captained their teams at the finals.

EURO 1960

Soviet Union: Igor Netto

France: Robert Jonquet

Yugoslavia: Bora Kostić

Czechoslovakia: Ladislav Novák

EURO 1964

Soviet Union: Valentin Ivanov

Denmark: Ole Madsen

Spain: Ferran Olivella

Hungary: Ferenc Bene

EURO 1968

Soviet Union: Albert Shesternev

England: Bobby Moore

Yugoslavia: Mirsad Farzlagić

Italy: Giacinto Facchetti

EURO 1972

Soviet Union: Murtaz Khurtsilava

Belgium: Paul Van Himst

West Germany: Franz Beckenbauer

Hungary: Ferenc Bene

EURO 1976

West Germany: Franz Beckenbauer

Czechoslovakia: Anton Ondruš

Netherlands: Johan Cruyff

Yugoslavia: Jovan Aćimović

EURO 1980

England: Kevin Keegan

Belgium: Julien Cools

Greece: Giorgos Koudas

Czechoslovakia: Anton Ondruš

Italy: Dino Zoff

West Germany: Bernard Dietz

Spain: Juan Asensi

Netherlands: Ruud Krol

EURO 1984

Portugal: Manuel Bento

Belgium: Jan Ceulemans

France: Michel Platini

Denmark: Morten Olsen

Spain: Luis Arconada

Romania: Costică Ştefănescu

Yugoslavia: Velimir Zajec

West Germany: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

EURO 1988

Italy: Alessandro Altobelli

Denmark: Morten Olsen

Netherlands: Ruud Gullit

England: Bryan Robson

Spain: José Antonio Camacho

Republic of Ireland: Frank Stapleton

Soviet Union: Rinat Dasayev

West Germany: Lothar Matthäus

EURO 1992

CIS: Oleksiy Mykhailychenko

England: Gary Lineker

Denmark: Lars Olsen

Germany: Rudi Völler

Netherlands: Ruud Gullit

France: Manuel Amoros

Sweden: Jonas Thern

Scotland: Richard Gough

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