Players born on or after 1 January 1987 were eligible to participate in the tournament. Players' age as of 18 July 2006 – the tournament's opening day. Players in bold have later been capped at full international level.
Famous quotes containing the words european and/or football:
“Assassination is the perquisite of princes.”
—19th-century European court cliché.
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)