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Englishman Mark Clattenburg has been handed the whistle for the biggest international game of the year, the Euro 2016 final between Portugal and France.

It's less than two months since Clattenburg was officiating the Madrid battle in the Champions League final in Milan and on Sunday in Saint Denis he will again be in between Cristiano and Griezmann. What a year it has been for the 41-year old who was also in charge for the FA Cup final in May between Manchester United and Crystal Palace.
He will be assisted in the final by Simon Beck and Jake Collin with additional assistants Anthony Taylor and Andre Marriner. This will be Clattenburg's fourth game at the tournament after his involvement in the matches between Belgium-Italy, Czech Republic-Croatia and Switzerland-Poland.
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Of course France will win this in France! It's not even up for discussion. Hope for a miracle for Portugal though!
 
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Of course France will win this in France! It's not even up for discussion. Hope for a miracle for Portugal though!
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اتفاقاً من بر خلاف شما فکر می***کنم،سلای جان،من فکر می***کنم،پرتغال در ضربات پنالتی فرانسه را میبرد.این جام مال پرتغال است،من به دو دلیل می***گویم:

اول اینکه،تیم*** پرتغال و مربیان پرتغالی به خصوص همین آقای مهندس الکترونیک،که مربیش است،مثل همین کارلس کیروش ما،خوب میداند چطور سیستم دفاعی قوی خود را به رخ فرانسه بکشد،به نظر من،پرتغال سعی*** می***کند اول گلی*** را نخورد و بعد به ضدّ حمله روی آورد،که نانی و رونالدو خود متخصص این کار هستند.

دوم اینکه تیمهای پرتغالی متخصص در این هستند که از جلو دفاع کنند،و اختلالی در توپ رسانی از دفاع حریف به خط هافبک انجام دهند،چیزی که اگر از عهده ا***ش بر آیند،فرانسه را فلج خواهد کرد.
 
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اتفاقاً من بر خلاف شما فکر می***کنم،سلای جان،من فکر می***کنم،پرتغال در ضربات پنالتی فرانسه را میبرد.این جام مال پرتغال است،من به دو دلیل می***گویم:

اول اینکه،تیم*** پرتغال و مربیان پرتغالی به خصوص همین آقای مهندس الکترونیک،که مربیش است،مثل همین کارلس کیروش ما،خوب میداند چطور سیستم دفاعی قوی خود را به رخ فرانسه بکشد،به نظر من،پرتغال سعی*** می***کند اول گلی*** را نخورد و بعد به ضدّ حمله روی آورد،که نانی و رونالدو خود متخصص این کار هستند.

دوم اینکه تیمهای پرتغالی متخصص در این هستند که از جلو دفاع کنند،و اختلالی در توپ رسانی از دفاع حریف به خط هافبک انجام دهند،چیزی که اگر از عهده ا***ش بر آیند،فرانسه را فلج خواهد کرد.
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Dr. Kasra, I really hope what you say will be the turn out but France themselves did the same thing against Germany and showed they are masters of that tactic. I think it's gonna be an interesting game anyways! :)
 
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Of course France will win this in France! It's not even up for discussion. Hope for a miracle for Portugal though!
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on paper yes but portugal has the

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playing for them and he is a team on his own playing with intensity and
purpose that's not exhibited by any of the other stars in the tournament.
he can win it all on his own.
 
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Dr. Kasra, I really hope what you say will be the turn out but France themselves did the same thing against Germany and showed they are masters of that tactic. I think it's gonna be an interesting game anyways! :)
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I agree , this must be an interesting final . The pressure is on host and of-course this is the last chance for CR to win something for Portugal after winning everything in club and individual level .

France without a doubt have more alternative than Portugal specially upfront. To get the best out of Griezmann, Dechamps had to change 4-3-3 to 4-2-3-1 to use him behind Giroud but I doubt if he is going to use this format against the counter attacking Portugal . I guess this will go to penalty . Portugal also had one extra day to rest .
 
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[h=1]20162016France’s and Portugal’s colonial heritage brings African flavour to Euro 2016[/h]Sunday night’s final at the Stade de France will feature two nations with several players whose families have made their homes in the modern Europe







 Six of the France team that started the semi-final against Germany were of African heritage, including PSG’s Blaise Matuidi, front row, second from left. Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty ImagesEd Aarons

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    Faria Rivelino could be forgiven for having split loyalties when France take on Portugal on Sunday night in the Euro 2016 final. The father of the Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Blaise Matuidi moved to Toulouse in the early 1980s with his wife Élise to escape the Angolan Civil War, before eventually settling in the capital.
    The former colony of Portugal was devastated by the conflict, which lasted until 2002 and resulted in more than half a million deaths. But having grown up in the Parisian suburb of Fontenay-sous-Bois with his four siblings speaking both French and Portuguese, Matuidi was approached in 2006 and asked if he would consider playing for his father’s homeland.
    “I had to make a difficult choice to opt for the French team,” he said in 2014. “I have never forgotten my Angolan roots. I attached great importance to them, especially as I still have family there.
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    “I went there once during the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations tournament that was organised there and I really enjoyed the welcome. They are proud of my career there. If I am French, I feel just as Angolan.”
    But while Matuidi may be the only player in action at the Stade de France whose family can legitimately support either side, both finalists’ squads have drawn heavily on the children of second generation Africans. The hosts’ squad, whose 1998 World Cup winning team was feted for its “black, blanc, beur” composition, features 11 players with African roots (not including Réunion’s Dimitri Payet), compared with six in Fernando Santos’s Portugal squad.
    That makes 37% of the two finalists’ squads, while the fact that exactly half of the 24 competing countries at Euro 2016 went into the tournament with at least one player of African descent shows the extent of migration across Europe in recent years.
    Of course, those statistics have not been well received in all quarters. Marine Le Pen’s far-right Front National party used Karim Benzema’s exclusion from the France squad as an excuse to reignite the debate over race first used by her father, Jean-Marie, before the 1998 World Cup. In 2011 the French Football Federation and then France manager, Laurent Blanc, faced accusations that they had discussed limiting the number of places for players from ethnic minorities at their headquarters in Clairefontaine that would have seen players as young as 12 passed over in order to make room for their white counterparts.
    But it is not just in France that the presence of so many African players has become an issue. Just before Les Bleus played Iceland in the quarter-final, a Danish far-right party posted a message on Facebook featuring images of Paul Pogba, whose parents emigrated from Guinea, and Senegal-born Patrice Evra with the Iceland captain Aron Gunnarsson. “If you don’t think that Europe and Denmark should be transformed into an African backyard, then enter your email address at www.stemdansk.dk so the Danes’ Party can be allowed to run for parliament,” read the caption.
    Iceland’s Football Association issued a strongly worded statement condemning the post and urging people not to share it. “The common interest of a large chunk of the human race in the sport of football which we so love brings people together. We use sport to bring people together, not split them apart,” its statement responded.
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    Before the tournament the current France coach, Didier Deschamps, was accused of racism by Eric Cantona over the Benzema affair but he could have chosen to start every match with a team of players with African heritage. Aside from Matuidi, Pogba and Evra, the new Crystal Palace goalkeeper Steve Mandanda and Manchester City’s Eliaquim Mangala have roots in the Democratic Republic of Congo while the defender Adil Rami, born in Corsica to Moroccan parents, is the only player in the squad with north African descent.
    The defender Samuel Umtiti – signed from Lyon by Barcelona last month – was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon, before emigrating with his family at the age of two, with Moussa Sissoko and N’Golo Kanté both of Malian heritage. In stark contrast to the 1998 side which included Thierry Henry and Lilian Thuram, however, only Manchester United’s Anthony Martial of the current generation is descended from France’s former territories in the West Indies.
    Yet, if the relationship of Les Bleus with its old empire has been under the microscope for decades, Portugal’s Seleção can claim to have a similarly lengthy history of drawing in players from overseas. More than a decade before Mozambique-born Eusébio took them to the 1966 World Cup semi-final against England, Benfica signed his compatriots Hilário, Matateu and Mário Coluna and began a long-tradition of naturalising African talent for the national team.




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    Portugal’s side on Sunday night is expected to include Angolan-born William Carvalho, left, and teenager Renato Sanches, whose family come from Cape Verde. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/ReutersThese days Cape Verde has emerged as the richest seam of players with Nani, Eliseu and the new sensation Renato Sanches – who joined Bayern Munich before the tournament for a fee that could rise to €80m – all tracing their roots back to the island in the Atlantic Ocean. After missing the semi-final against Wales due to suspension the Angolan-born William Carvalho is expected to resume his partnership with Sanches and Porto’s Danilo, who was, like the former Swansea striker Éder, born in Guinea-Bissau.
    In a country which does not keep data on ethnicity or race there are now estimated to be between 200,000 and 500,000 people of African descent – a tiny number when compared to France’s almost eight million. But with Portugal currently rated second on the Migrant Integration Policy Index’s ranking of nations with the best integration policies towards immigrants, there could be plenty more who follow in the footsteps of Eusébio and co in the next few years.

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on paper yes but portugal has the

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playing for them and he is a team on his own playing with intensity and
purpose that's not exhibited by any of the other stars in the tournament.
he can win it all on his own.
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and he likes finals.

 
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