- Theodoros Zagorakis
Theodoros Zagorakis (born October 27, 1971 in Kavala) is the President of PAOK FC, Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a retired Greek footballer and was the captain of PAOK FC and the Greece national football team that won the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship.
- Xabi Alonso
Xabier Alonso Olano, commonly known as Xabi Alonso (born 25 November 1981 in Tolosa, Basque Country Spain, is a Spanish footballer who plays for Liverpool F.C.. He wears the number 14 shirt at Liverpool and is a central midfielder, often playing as a deep-lying playmaker. Alonso has gained the reputation as being one of the best passers of the ball in the world. He also has a reputation for scoring spectacular long range goals, …
- Mattias Jonson
Mattias Jonson [ma'tiːɑs 'jʊnsɔn] (born January 16 1974) is a Swedish professional football player, who plays as a midfielder for Swedish club Djurgårdens IF in the Allsvenskan championship. He has played 57 games and scored nine goals for the Sweden national football team, and represented Sweden at two World Cups and the 2004 European Championship.
- Jorge Andrade
Jorge Andrade (pron.), full name Jorge Manuel Almeida Gomes de Andrade, <small>OIH</small>, (born 9 April, 1978) is a football defender. Juventus FC has arrived to an agreement with Deportivo to sign him, he is expected to do his medical and sign the contract soon. While not completely sidestepping an education in the Portuguese top-flight in the manner of a Costinha or Pauleta, …
- Petr Čech
Petr Čech is a Czech international footballer who is currently a goalkeeper for Chelsea F.C. Petr Čech has previously played for Viktoria Plzeň, Chmel Blšany, Sparta Prague, and Rennes, and is considered to be one of the best goalkeepers in the world. He was voted into the all-star team at Euro 2004 after helping his country reach the semi-finals, best Goalkeeper in the 2004-05 UEFA Champions League, …
- Traianos Dellas
Traianos Dellas (born January 31, 1976 in Greece, is a Greek football player. At 196cm of height (6'5") ,he is a towering, strong defender who plays for the Greece national team and AEK Athens. Dellas had an exceptional tournament at Euro 2004, partnering Michalis Kapsis in the centre of what became an almost unpenetratable Greek defence, leading to his being voted onto the tournament All-star Squad. He scored the goal that put Greece in the final of the tournament, …
- Ľuboš Micheľ
Ľuboš Micheľ is a Slovak football referee. Micheľ became a FIFA referee at the age of 25. One big milestone in his career was refereeing the 2003 UEFA Cup final between FC Porto and Celtic. He also appeared at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2004, refereeing the quarter-final between Sweden and the Netherlands. Micheľ came in third place in voting for the title of "The World's Best Referee 2005". He was also selected as a referee for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
- Marcus Allbäck
Marcus Christian Allbäck, born July 5, 1973 in Göteborg, is a Swedish football striker, who currently plays for F.C. Copenhagen in Denmark.
- Gilles Veissière
Gilles Veissière is a football (soccer) referee from France, best known for supervising two matches during the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan. He also led two matches at the 2000 and 2004 UEFA European Football Championship. <br
- Wilfred Bouma
Wilfred Bouma (born June 15, 1978 in Helmond, Netherlands) is a Dutch football (soccer) player who currently plays for English club Aston Villa.
- Dmitri Kirichenko
Dmitri Kirichenko (born January 17, 1977) is a football (soccer) striker who plays for the Russian national team and also currently plays for FC Saturn Moscow Oblast. He previously played for FC Moskva and CSKA Moscow. He played for his country at Euro 2004, scoring the quickest ever goal in the European Football Championship - in the second minute against Greece.
- Lucílio Batista
Lucílio Cardoso Cortez Batista is a Portuguese football referee. He is known for have refereed two matches in the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship on home soil in Portugal. He also refereed two matches at the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup in France. He has refereed sixteen Champions League matches and ten UEFA Cup matches during his career.
- Otto Rehhagel
Otto Rehhagel is a German football coach and former football player. With Helmut Schön, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Udo Lattek and Hennes Weisweiler, he is one of the most successful German managers ever. He is currently manager of the Greece national football team, having led them to a shock European Championship title in 2004. Rehhagel is the only person who, as player and as manager, has participated in over 1000 Bundesliga-matches.
- Carles Puyol
Carles Puyol i Saforcada (born April 13, 1978 in La Pobla de Segur, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish footballer who is the current team captain of FC Barcelona. He is a regular in the Spanish national team. Puyol played for Spain at the 2000 Olympics, 2002 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2004 and the 2006 FIFA World Cup; Puyol has been capped over 60 times. He has also played for the unofficial Catalonia national football team in one friendly.
- Erik Edman
Erik Edman (born November 11, 1978, in Huskvarna, Sweden) is a professional Swedish footballer, currently playing for Rennes in the French Ligue 1. Before coming to France, Edman played for Helsingborgs IF and AIK in Sweden, Karlsruher SC in Germany, SC Heerenveen in the Netherlands and Tottenham Hotspur in England. He joined Rennes on August 31, 2005, for an undisclosed amount. Edman came to the club with a huge amount of international experience, …
- Manuel Mejuto González
Manuel Enrique Mejuto González is a Spanish football referee. He is known for refereeing two matches in the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship in Portugal. He has also refereed twenty-six UEFA Champions League matches in his career, which include the 2005 Final between Liverpool F.C. and AC Milan.
- Igor Tudor
Igor Tudor (born April 16, 1978 in Split, SR Crotia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian football (soccer) defender. He currently plays for Hajduk Split
- Aleksandr Kerzhakov
Aleksandr Kerzhakov (born November 27, 1982 in Kingisepp) is a Russian international footballer. The striker plays for the Spanish La Liga team Sevilla FC.
- Milan Rapaić
Milan "Miki" Rapaić is a Croatian football (soccer) midfielder who currently plays professionally for Standard Liège in Belgium. Previously, Rapaić played for Hajduk Split (1991-1996, 2002-2003), Perugia (1996-2000), Fenerbahçe (2000-2002), and Ancona (2003-2004). A regular in the Croatia national football team, he had earned 45 caps and scored five goals as of the end of 2004. Rapaić played two games for his country at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
- Marcel Desailly
Marcel Desailly (born September 7, 1968 in Accra, Ghana as "Odenke Abbey") is a former French football player and a former star of the French national football team, with whom he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000. He also enjoyed a distinguished career at club level with several European clubs.
- Sylvain Wiltord
Sylvain Wiltord (born May 10, 1974 in Neuilly-sur-Marne) is a French football forward whose parents come from Guadeloupe, France. With the French national team, Wiltord has won Euro 2000 and reached the finals of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Wiltord played for Stade Rennais (1992-97), Girondins de Bordeaux (1997-2000), Arsenal F.C. (2000-04), and since 2004 has been a member of Olympique Lyonnais. For France, Wiltord has been capped 90 times, scoring 26 goals.
- Christian Poulsen
Christian Bager Poulsen (born February 28, 1980) is a Danish professional football (soccer) player who currently plays for Sevilla FC. He has been a regular member of the Denmark national football team since his debut in 2001, and has played more than 40 matches, scoring two goals. He represented Denmark at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2004 European Championship tournaments. He was named 2005 and 2006 Danish "Player of the Year".
- Paul Robinson
Paul William Robinson (born October 15, 1979 in Beverley) is a professional footballer. He is presently the first-choice goalkeeper for Tottenham Hotspur and England. He started his career at Leeds United, for whom he made 119 appearances before transferring to Tottenham in May 2004.
- Alexander Frei
Alexander Frei (born July 15, 1979 in Basel) is a Swiss footballer. He signed a 4-year contract with Borussia Dortmund on June, 29th. Dortmund paid a transfer fee of approximately 5 million euros for him. He played for Switzerland at Euro 2004 and at the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany. Until now he has been capped 54 times for his country (as of September 2006). Frei is only 3 goals short from being Switzerland's all time top scorer.
- Philipp Lahm
Philipp Lahm (born November 11, 1983 in Munich, Bavaria) is a German footballer who currently plays as a defender for Bayern Munich and Germany at Euro 2004 and the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He scored the opening goal of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He is considered one of the best young fullbacks in the world, as is shown by his inclusion in the Mastercard All Star Team. Known to be young and energetic, Lahm's pace is unbelievable, …
- Aleksandrs Starkovs
Aleksandrs Starkovs or Aleksandr Starkov is a Latvian-Russian football coach who used to coach Skonto FC and Spartak Moscow. Starkovs has previously coached Skonto FC, Rīga (from 1992 to 2004) and Latvian national team (from 2001 to 2004). He took over Latvian national team after its disastrous performance in 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifiers and lead the team to its biggest success ever, …
- Aleksandrs Koļinko
Aleksandrs Koļinko is a professional football (soccer) player currently playing for Rubin Kazan. Koļinko, a goalkeeper, made his name in the football world during a short spell at English club Crystal Palace, where his appearances were limited due to his inconsistent form. He could make brilliant saves one moment, but terrible blunders the next. Reportedly, he was dismissed from the team after, while in the substitutes' bench, laughed at a goal his own team had conceded.
- Rolan Gusev
Rolan Gusev (born 17 September 1977 in Ashkhabad, USSR, now Turkmenistan) is a Russian international footballer. He is a right midfielder and plays for PFC CSKA Moscow. Rolan Gusev was born in Ashkhabad but moved to Moscow at the age of 9. He attended the Dynamo football school. Gusev played for Dynamo Moscow since 1997 and transferred to the city rivals CSKA in 2002. With CSKA he won two Russian championships, two Russian Cups and the UEFA Cup.
- Aleksandr Anyukov
Aleksandr Anyukov (born 28 September 1982 in Samara) is a Russian international football defender. He plays for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. Aleksandr Anyukov attended football school in Samara since the age of six. In 2000 he started playing for the reserve team of Krylya Sovetov Samara in the Second Division. He was noticed by Aleksandr Tarkhanov and invited to the first team.
- Niclas Jensen
Niclas Christian Monberg Jensen (born August 17, 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish professional football player, who plays as a left back for F.C. Copenhagen in the Danish Superliga. He has played more than 50 games for the Danish national team, and he played for Denmark at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2004 European Championship. He is the older brother of fellow Danish national team player Daniel Jensen.
- Rui Jorge
Rui Jorge de Sousa Dias Macedo de Oliveira, <small>OIH</small> (pron.), known by Rui Jorge, (born March 27, 1973 in Vila Nova de Gaia) is a former Portuguese football player. He was, as a left-defender, a leading player at FC Porto, but he only become a regular at Portugal, after moving to Sporting Clube de Portugal, in 1998/99, where he remained until 2004/05, winning two titles of National Champion.
- Paul Bosvelt
Paul Bosvelt (born March 26, 1970 in Doetinchem) is a former Dutch footballer. Bosvelt worked his way through the Dutch leagues with Go Ahead Eagles and FC Twente before making his big move to Feyenoord in 1997. He went on to develop a reputation as a fearsome midfield general at de Kuip, making 167 top-flight appearances and leading the side to the Eredivisie title in 1999 and in the 2002, guided his team to UEFA Cup victory as a captain.
- Raúl González
Raúl González Blanco, usually referred to simply as Raúl, is a Spanish football forward. He has been playing for Real Madrid at senior level since 1994, where he is the team captain. He has played more than 100 games for the Spanish national team, and is its all-time leading goal scorer with 47 goals. He represented Spain in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2000, the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2004 and 2006 FIFA World Cup tournaments.
- Dennis Rommedahl
Dennis Rommedahl (born July 22, 1978 in Copenhagen) is a professional Danish footballer, who is currently playing as a winger for Charlton Athletic in the English Premier League. He has represented the Danish national football team in more than 60 matches, scoring 15 goals, and Rommedahl was selected for the Danish squads at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2004 tournaments.
- Andreas Jakobsson
Andreas Jakobsson (born October 6, 1972) is a Swedish professional football (soccer) player in the defender position. He has played 36 international matches for the Sweden national team, and was a squad player for the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the 2004 European Championship.
- Andrejs Piedels
Andrejs Piedels is a Latvian football goalkeeper who currently played for Skonto Riga. In career was played also for Pārdaugava, Daugava, Amstrig and DAG. He got 14 caps for Latvia national football team and he participated at Euro 2004.
- Jerko Leko
Jerko Leko (born April 9, 1980 in Zagreb) is a Croatian football player who currently plays for AS Monaco FC after joining on a free transfer from Dynamo Kyiv. He is well-known for his versatility, and can play anywhere in midfield. His career began with NK Dinamo Zagreb in 2000 in his native Croatia, although he was not an immediate success. After spending some time on loan at NK Sesvete, he became a regular starter in 2001/2002, helping Dinamo win the Croatian Cup.
- Daniel Jensen
Daniel Monberg Jensen (born June 25, 1979) is a Danish professional football player who plays as a midfielder for SV Werder Bremen in the German Bundesliga. He has played more than 20 matches and scored two goals for the Danish national team, and represented his country at the 2004 European Championship. He is the younger brother of fellow national team player Niclas Jensen.
- Claus Jensen
Claus William Jensen (born April 29, 1977) is a Danish professional footballer, who plays as a midfielder. He has recently left Fulham F.C. of the English FA Premier League. Jensen has played more than 40 games and has scored 8 goals for the Denmark national football team, and represented Denmark at the 2002 World Cup and 2004 European Championship tournaments.
- Rafael van der Vaart
Rafael Ferdinand van der Vaart (born 11 February 1983) is a Dutch footballer who captains Bundesliga side Hamburger SV and plays for the Dutch national team. Van der Vaart was born to a Spanish mother and a Dutch father in Heemskerk, in North Holland. He has scored 11 goals in 44 caps for the national team. His previous clubs were Ajax and De Kennemers in his hometown of Heemskerk. Van der Vaart played for the Netherlands in Euro 2004 and in the 2006 World Cup.