Gareth Bale scores 2 goals for Wales with Andorra!

Wales struggled to beat Andorra 2-1 . Real Madrid player , Gareth Bale scored both goals for Wales and, the winning goal came quite late , after 81 minutes, following a free kick. Lima scored from penalty after six minutes but Bale managed to get the equalizer after 16 minutes later. "It was by far the worst field I played . Could not even describe how bad, bumpy and tough the synthetic was . Most important thing is that we managed to take all three points . Other teams will also have problems playing here . We need to qualify and unfortunately this means we have to come to play on such fields, "said Gareth Bale.

Gibraltar, the new Uefa member has only 30000 inhabitants, one stadium and lost 7-0 their first official match.

Gribraltar is a small country in southern Spain next to the strait of the same name . It is a territory controlled by the United Kingdom of Great Britain although the spanish began to assert certain rights in the tiny territory of Gibraltar peninsula .

Gibraltar has a population of only 30,000 inhabitants and one stadium where all the teams involved in the championship of Gibraltar are playing, Victoria Stadium is shared by all club teams and also used by the national team . Not yet a full member of FIFA , they cannot participate in World Cup qualifiers but , as Uefa accepted their application for a full membership, Gibraltar, the little semi-independent state received the right to participate in the qualifiers for Euro 2016. Last night they played the first official match in the history of this country but the result certainly does not make them honnor, 7-0 in front of Poland . The players called up to the national team are more active in their championship amateur teams as well as some little -known teams such as Jake Gosling at Bristol Rovers in the fifth English league and Liam Walker at Bnei Yehuda , team relegated in Israel's second league.

At the age of 37 Thierry Henry still has what it takes to score great goals!

Thierry Henry still has what it takes to decide a match by his own and has proven this in the last match of his current team, New York RedBulls. It was 1-0 for New York when Thierry Henry receives a ball from Lloyd Sam and from outside the box he unleashes an absolute rocket into the top corner makeing it 2-0 in th 52 minute leaving Sporting Kansas City two goal behind. The Arsenal legend is 37 but still he proves that he has a great quality even if he doesen't need to prove a thing to anyone. You can watch the magnificent goal bellow!

Thierry Henry's rocket

Argentina got the payback with Germany but still isn't enough.

Last night Germnay met Argentina at Dusseldorf in a friendly match and the pumas came with an eager desire for revenge, a revenge that happened whitout Messi on the field. The man of the match may have been the new Manchester's signing, Angel Di Maria wich scored one and had 3 assists.

At half time the score was allready 2-0 for Argentina after Aguero's goal in the mid half and Lamela in the fourtieth minutes and both assits came from Di Maria. Di Maria's show continued after the break and after another good assist Fernandez manages to pull another goal(47min). The world champions didn't have time to rest or reevaluate because Di Maria(50) completed his great night by scoring after Zabaleta's assist. At this point the scoareboard was indicating an unbelieveble 4-0 for Argentina a score wich can give the pumas a small revenge for losing the Worl Cup in favor of Germany. Two miuntes later Schurrle(52) pulled one back and Gotze (78) completed the final scoar of 2-4 for the away team in a match where both teams had good possesion and goal chances but Argentina managed to take a better advantage of those chances in the context of getting the revenge they came for.

The history of the first Uefa Euro Cup. The First Euro Tournament was held in France in 1960 and the soviets won it!

Qualifiers for the Euro 2016 tournament begin this weekend,a tournament wich will be hosted by France and so we continue the series of special articles! For our reddit readers and fans we started to translate our articles into english espeacially the ones from the special category. In 1960, UEFA organized the first European Football Championship in the history and the final torunament was hosted by France, confirmed only after finding the four teams qualified for the semifinals. Back then the tournament competition format was completely different. From competition lacked strong national teams such as West Germany, England and Italy. At the start of the competition lined up 17 national teams and the Northern Ireland and Czechoslovakia have played a preliminary tour wich decided who enters the first stage of the European Championship. After 2-0 at Dublin, the Irish team Bratislava were defeated 4-0 at Bratislava and the Czechs went on with the score of 4-2.

Romania and Greece have attended this frist tournament but didn't get trough the last 4 teams ! The 16 teams remaining in the competition were drawn to decide the 8 matches in the first round and Romania also present in this phase, had succeeded Turkey after the 3-0 win in Bucharest and 2-0 loss at Istanbul. Greece was also present at this stage of the competition but was eliminated by France with the general score of 8-2, 7-1 at Paris and 1-1 at Athens. In the first leg match legendary footballer Just Fontaine had to score 2 times.

Quarterfinals

In quarters had to walk the 8 teams that qualified from the first round, namely: Romania, France, Austria, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Spain, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. In this phase of the easiest proved to the Soviet Union, a country that had to go into the semifinals thanks to abandon of Spain who refused to do the trip to Moscow. Romania would be eliminated by Czechoslovakia after 0-3 in Bucharest and 2-0 Bratislava. As Yugoslavia managed to defeat Portugal with 6-3 on aggregate the final torunament, wich only began now, would be composed of three communist countries.

The Final Tournament

At this point Uefa had to choose the host for the semifinals and the finals and since France was the only viable choice they were chosen to host these 4 final matches. Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union were all 3 comunist countries and Uefa didn't want to choose one of them for that reason so the games where to be played in Paris and Marseille. Semifinal matches were played in one leg and the Soviet Union defeated Czechoslovakia smoothly at Marseille 3-0. France had to struggle in the company of Yugoslavia and finally lost the semifinal with 5-4. While there were 30 minutes left to play France was ahead with 4-2 but the dramatic ending of the game left the galics out of the big final hosted at their capital town , Paris. In the small final Czechoslovakia took advantage of a demoralized France team and win 2-0 at Marseille. A day later on July 10 in Paris took place the big final, the first ever final of the Uefa European Championship and the soviets won in the second half of extra-time after Ponedelnik's goal in the 113 minutes. After 90 minutes the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were even 1-1 so the game had to go into extra-time were the soviets wrote the first page of the European Torunament winning the final in a cold war era were football was rising more and more.

This article was translated from here and was written and translated by myself. Hope you enjoyed it and if so come back later for more interesting articles about world wide football. This is my first blog post, see you next time :)