The 2024 UEFA European Championship will start on June 14 with 24 groups competing for the appropriate to be topped European champions.
Forward of the month-long event, Al Jazeera takes a have a look at among the high-profile gamers who will not be on the most important occasion in Germany.
Norway’s sophisticated qualification leaves the main duo stranded out of the Euro Cup
Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard was on the verge of profitable the 2023-24 Premier League trophy, which coincidentally was lifted on the ultimate day of the season by his good pal Erling Haaland’s Manchester Metropolis for the fourth time in a row, a file.
Whereas Odegaard and Haaland loved massively spectacular particular person performances within the Premier League, and are cherished by their golf equipment and nation, each can be compelled to overlook the European summer time after their nation Norway surprisingly did not qualify for the Euros. 2024.
Norway, which has not performed in a significant soccer event since 2000 and, regardless of having these two celebrity gamers, completed a disappointing third in its qualifying group behind Spain and Scotland, did not safe an computerized place. Later, their hopes of constructing the playoffs had been additionally extinguished.
Even an emphatic six-goal from Haaland through the Euro 2024 qualifiers was not sufficient to get Norway by means of to the event, whereas Odegaard’s two-goal contribution from midfield was evidently not sufficient to get his crew over the impediment.
With a gifted crew that additionally contains Fredrik Aursnes, Oscar Bobb and Julian Ryerson, it’s truthful to say that Norway is the most important shocking omission from the Euro 2024 event, and an enormous disappointment for the thousands and thousands of followers who observe this gifted pair.
Manchester United duo miss out on England call-up after poor season
Striker Marcus Rashford was overlooked of Gareth Southgate’s provisional squad for the European Championship, only a 12 months and a half after his dynamic look on the World Cup in Qatar.
The 26-year-old suffered a lack of kind in 2023-24, registering a paltry eight objectives in 43 video games in all competitions, an enormous drop from the 30 objectives he scored within the earlier season.
Rashford’s absence from the nationwide soccer crew was undoubtedly the most important shock for English followers, as he had been a well-known presence in Southgate’s squad for years.
Rashford was not the one participant from Manchester United’s underperforming 2023-24 squad to fail to make England’s Euro squad.
Jadon Sancho’s troublesome spell at Outdated Trafford within the first half of the season proved to be a deciding issue as Southgate additionally left him out.
The star winger discovered kind upon his return to Borussia Dortmund on mortgage in January, serving to the German membership earn a spot within the Champions League last, however he arrived too late for Sancho to return to the Three Lions crew. for Euro 2024.
Pogba leaves an enormous gap within the French midfield
Together with his eye-catching once-in-a-generation performances in midfield, gifted supervisor Paul Pogba performed an necessary position in France’s 2018 World Cup victory however was compelled to overlook the 2022 version in Qatar as a result of accidents.
Regardless of returning to health this season, Pogba is not going to play within the upcoming European Championship after the Juventus midfielder acquired a four-year doping ban for testing constructive for a banned drug.
The ban, which runs till September 2027, additionally guidelines out the French celebrity from the subsequent World Cup in 2026, successfully ruling Pogba out of the nationwide crew till he’s within the twilight of his profession at age 34.
Pogba’s absence in midfield can be a blow for France, particularly given his confirmed monitor file with the nationwide crew in main tournaments.
In Pogba’s absence, Eduardo Camavinga and Aurelien Tchouameni will attempt to fill the large expertise void within the French midfield.
The Austrian Alaba can be within the Euro Cup, however not on the sector
Austrian David Alaba was overlooked of coach Ralf Rangnick’s provisional squad as a result of an harm, however this story had an sudden twist.
In an uncommon resolution, the defender will stay on the aircraft with the remainder of the Austrian crew heading to Germany and can play a job in Euro 2024.
Alaba, who performed in two of Austria’s earlier Euro appearances in 2016 and 2020, has been named “non-playing captain” by the nationwide soccer federation after the 31-year-old harassed he wished to be with the crew within the event.
Following a dialog along with his membership, Actual Madrid, Rangnick confirmed that Alaba will journey with the Austrian crew, regardless of ongoing rehabilitation from an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) harm in his knee.
Alaba, referred to as a constructive and team-minded participant, will proceed to play the position of captain, crew chief and motivator at Euro 2024, and one would now count on him to additionally play the important thing position of chief entertainer from the bench. .
Even with out Alaba on the sector, Austria has a star-studded squad together with Marcel Sabitzer, Marko Arnautovic and Konrad Laimer because the small Alpine nation makes an attempt to qualify from a tricky group that features France, Poland and the Netherlands.
The unlucky Gavi will miss the Spanish nationwide crew
High-rated central midfielder Gavi, a daily for Barcelona and Spain, is not going to play for La Roja within the European Championship as he, too, continues to recuperate from an anterior cruciate ligament harm.
The 19-year-old injured his knee throughout Spain’s Euro qualifier towards Georgia in November.
By ruling him out till the beginning of the 2024-25 season, Barcelona had been mentioned to be livid with Spanish coach Luis de la Fuente’s resolution to play Gavi in that match, as his crew had already sealed qualification for Euro 2024. within the earlier match.
The coach, responding to a mess of complaints about Gavi’s workload, lamented the unlucky (some would say pointless) harm as “an accident, a misfortune.”
The younger midfielder’s absence can be big for Spain, though they’ve a superb mixture of youth and expertise within the squad with Lamine Yamal, Rodri, Dani Carvajal and Aymeric Laporte all set to take Gavi’s place.
You possibly can observe the motion on Al Jazeera’s devoted Euro 2024 event web page with all of the match build-ups and stay textual content commentary, and keep updated with the group standings and real-time match outcomes and occasions.