France - Euro 2008

France-Lituanie 2-0 Qualif Euro 2008
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Now that baseball season is over (why are they still playing now that the Yanks are out?) I've shifted my attention over to European soccer and am really enjoying the qualifying rounds of the Euro 2008 tournment which will be played in Austria/Switzerland next summer. All the countries of europe are broken into groups of 6 or 8 teams in which each country plays all the other countries in their group twice, once at home and once away. You get three points for a win, one for a tie, none for a loss. The best two teams in the group advance to the actual tournment. Yesterday's game against Lithuania was huge for France. If they lost, they would go into their last game desperate for the right circumstances. If they win, then they control their destiny in which a victory in their final game next month puts them ahead of Italy and Scotland, the other two teams still in contention from their group. The score was still 0-0 going into the last 15 minutes of play. How did it end up? Watch the video!