Winning Euro 2020, Italy receives record bonus; Ronaldo wins Golden Boot

Winning Euro 2020, Italy receives record bonus

The historic championship helped the Italian team receive 10 million euros. In addition, the accumulated bonuses on the journey to the final, all helped them pocket 34 million euros at Euro 2020, the most ever.

Despite many difficulties due to the pandemic, which makes it difficult for matches to fill audiences and for sponsors to spend a lot of money due to poor business, this year UEFA still pays out "over the bar" bonuses compared to previous years. As announced by UEFA, the prize fund ofEuro 202028% increase over the 2016 tournament.

Accordingly, there will be up to 371 million Euros for the prize fund. The champion team Italy will receive an unprecedented amount of 10 million Euros (about 272 billion VND). But certainly, according to the cumulative bonus for the teams participating in the group stage, round of 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals, the total amount they will receive is much larger than that.

Italy lifted the Euro 2020 trophy. Photo: UEFA

Specifically, a team that reaches the round of 16 will pocket 2 million Euros, the quarter-finals will be 3.25 million, the semi-finals will be 5 million Euros, each win in the group stage will be 1.5 million more and a draw will be 0.75 million Euros. In total, on the journey to the final, Italy has certainly "collected" approximately 15 million Euros, plus 10 million Euros for winning the championship and 9.25 million for winning a ticket to the final round, they will have 34 million Euros, equal to 9% of UEFA's total prize fund for the 24 teams. Meanwhile, according to estimates, England will have 30 million Euros in total prize money (including 7 million for the runner-up team, the champion team always collects the highest number. But for the Italians, the most important thing is that they have brought home the Euro championship. There will certainly be all-night celebrations and there will certainly be other bonus showers for Roberto Mancini's army.

Italy becomes Euro 2020 champion after lucky penalty shootout

Italy became the Euro 2020 champions after a thrilling victory over hosts England at Wembley in the final.

Italy beat England 3-2 in a penalty shootout after the two teams drew 1-1 after 120 minutes.

Before that, in the 2nd minute, Luke Shaw quickly put England ahead with a powerful shot in the penalty area.

Luke Shaw opened the scoring in the Euro 2020 final in the second minute of the match. Photo: Reuters.

In the 67th minute, Leonardo Bonucci was there at the right time to unleash a close-range shot to equalize 1-1 for Italy against England in the Euro 2020 final.

This is the second time in history that the Italian team has won the Euro, after winning the tournament in 1968.

Meanwhile, England missed the chance to win the trophy in their first appearance in a Euro final.

Ronaldo wins Euro 2020 top scorer title

With 5 goals and 1 assist,striker Cristiano RonaldoPortugal won the Euro 2020 Golden Boot

At Euro 2020, Cristiano Ronaldo scored a total of 5 goals, all of which came from the group stage. Of those 5 goals, 3 were scored from the penalty spot. His Portugal team also did not play well and soon became the former champion when they lost 0-1 to Belgium in the round of 16.

Ronaldo has another personal title. Photo: Getty.

Meanwhile, Patrik Schick impressed with 5 goals, although before the tournament, the striker playing for Bayer Leverkusen was not highly rated. It was the brilliance of the 25-year-old star that greatly contributed to helping the Czech Republic reach the quarter-finals (losing 1-2 to Denmark).

Having scored 5 goals when EURO 2020 ended like Patrik Schick, Ronaldo won the Golden Boot award thanks to 1 assist, while Schick did not have any passes for his teammates to score.

Right after the two names mentioned above are Romelu Lukaku (Belgium), Harry Kane (England), Karim Benzema (France) and Emil Forsberg (Sweden), each with 4 goals.

Viettel Club has 2nd win in AFC Champions League

On the evening of July 11, the 1-0 victory over Kaya Iloilo helpedViettel Clubbecame the Vietnamese representative with the most points in the AFC Champions League group stage after 17 years.

With 6 points after 6 matches, Viettel Club has become the team with the most points among Vietnamese representatives participating in the AFC Champions League group stage since 2004. 17 years ago, HAGL Club won 7 points after the group stage of the continental tournament.

Viettel Club is the only Vietnamese representative participating in the AFC Champions League 2021. Photo: Kaya FC.

In the 2021 AFC Champions League, except for BG Pathum United, the remaining Southeast Asian clubs all had to stop at the group stage. Sharing after the match, coach Jurgen Gede frankly looked at the things he was not satisfied with, despite having 3 points after the match.

Mr. Gede said: “Of course, Viettel Club wanted to win right from the start. At first, we were looking for a goal, but unfortunately we couldn’t do it in the first half. We created many chances, but our decisions in the penalty area were not accurate. This is also a quality issue, and we have to work harder to improve."

The German strategist still admitted that this was a lucky victory for Viettel Club: "In the end, I have to say we were lucky. This is also the joy of Caique, who received the title of Best Player of the Match in both matches against Kaya."

Thanh Hien