Manchester City's Norwegian top scorer Erling Haaland is the most prominent absentee from the 2024 Euro Cup (French)
This summer, the attention of football fans will be directed to Germany, which is hosting the European Nations Cup finals (Euro 2024), where competition will intensify between the strongest European teams that include many stars and talents in their ranks. However, fans will miss a number of the most prominent players in the five major European leagues due to the failure of... Their countries qualify for the continental championship.
Although the tournament has been expanded to include 24 teams, a constellation of stars from countries that did not qualify will be noticeably absent.
The 17th edition of the Euro will be held between June 14 and July 14 with the participation of 24 teams, divided into 6 groups, in the presence of Italy, the champion of the last edition, in addition to the rest of the big teams in the Old Continent, such as Germany, France, Spain and Portugal.
Yesterday, Tuesday, the teams of Georgia, Ukraine and Poland joined the list after surpassing the teams of Greece, Iceland and Wales, respectively, in the playoff.
Manchester City's top scorer, Norwegian Erling Haaland, will be the most notable absentee from the tournament after the Norwegian national team failed to qualify for Euro 2024 after occupying third place with only 11 points in the first group of the qualifiers, behind leaders Spain and second-placed Scotland.
Other stars will also be absent, including Odysseus Vlachodimos, the goalkeeper of the Greek national team and the English club Nottingham Forest, Adam Marusic, the defender of the Montenegro national team and the Italian club Lazio, and Victor Lindelof, the defender of the Swedish national team and the English club Manchester United.
Below is the list of the 11 most prominent stars who will miss the biggest European event in Germany:
Goalkeeper:
1- Finnish Lukas Hradecky:
Bayer Leverkusen, Germany.
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Defense line:
2- Greek Kostas Tsimikas:
Liverpool.
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3- Welshman Ben Davies:
English club Tottenham Hotspur.
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4- Irishman Nathan Collins:
Brentford.
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5- Connor Bradley, Northern Ireland player:
Liverpool, England.
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Midfield:
6- Welshman Ethan Ampadu:
English Leeds United.
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7- Elgev Elmas:
North Macedonia player
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German club Leipzig.
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8- Norwegian Martin Odegaard:
Arsenal, England.
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Attack:
9-Swede Alexander Isak:
Newcastle United of England.
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10- Norwegian Erling Haaland:
Manchester City, England.
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11- Swedish Deyan Kulusevski:
Tottenham Hotspur of England.
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