Euro 2008 Preliminaries

Today were extracted the groups and the teams that will try to qualify for the Euro 2008 tournament. A total of 7 groups containing 7 national teams each, will try to give their best to make the final tournament.
Romania has missed the past 3 championships (World cup 2002, Euro 2004 and World Cup 2006) because of a number of stupid games, which were all winnable , a coach resignation back in '02 that could have lead us to Korea and Japan, and a referee that stole us the last seconds of the last game in '04.
Another blowup could be a disaster for our football.. the club teams are really trying in uefa cup, we have many values, but we need ca coach that can scout too.
Anyway, here are the teams Romania will face:

Luxemburg:
A team with no pretentions from this competition.. maybe gain some experience. Even if we would play in 8 players, all from the bench we could win both games
Belarus:
Another easy team. Again, 2 wins from this round
Albania:
Everything cool. No worries so far
Slovenia:
This is the team that went to World Cup 2002 from Korea and Japan in our spite. Here is our chance for revenge. We MUST win both games!
Bulgaria:
Bulgaria is a team that could put us in trouble. They are also fighting for the 2ns place, so i expect tough confrontations from the games. Hopefully we'll win at Bucharest and try for a draw at Sofia
Holland:
The favorite for winning this group. We also met them in the preliminaries for World Cup 2006 and we lost both games. A revenge would be sweet, but i'm hoping we don't lose both games, hell, a win at home would be more then perfect.

As we can see, the gorup is not tough, there's Holland who is going to win it 80%, Bulgariaon who we must concentrate, and Slovenia against we have some unfinished business.

Hope i;'m not mistaken, but my oppinion is that Romania will finally be at a final tournament again!


Romania's team at Euro 2000:
#22 Ionel Ganea, Bogdan Stelea, Gica Popescu, Iulian Filipescu, Cristi Chivu, Costel Galca, #2 Dan Petrescu, Gica Hagi, Dorinel Munteanu, Viorel Moldovan, Adrian Ilie