Top Goal Scorers in Euro 2008

Euro 2008 will come to end with the final match between Germany and Spain tomorrow. Football world is waiting for an excellent finish of Euro 2008, even though the tournament was full of excitement and presented with some classic matches from the group stage. A couple of teams indicated that they have enough talent to be the emerging side in world football. Very few expected Turkey and Russia at the semi final of the tournament. However, the two sides showed enough talent and skill impressing the football fans as well as the pundits.

A few players also emerged from this tournament who could be the future star of world football. Two Russians Andrei Arshavin and Roman Pavlyuchenko, Hakan Yakin, Arda Turan, Nihat Kahveci are in the short list of new stars. Here, I am giving the list of top goal scorer of Euro 2008 tournament.

Place	Player	Country	No. of Goals Scored
1st Place	David Villa	Spain	4
2nd Place	Lukas Podolski	Germany	3
	Roman Pavlyuchenko	Russia	3
	Hakan Yakin	Switzerland	3
	Semih Senturk	Turkey	3
3rd Place	Ivan Klasnic	Croatia	2
	Michael Ballack	Germany	2
	Bastian Schweinsteiger	Germany	2
	Miroslav Klose	Germany	2
	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Netherlands	2
	Robin van Persie	Netherlands	2
	Wesley Sneijder	Netherlands	2
	Andrei Arshavin	Russia	2
	Dani Guiza	Spain	2
	Zlatan Ibrahimovic	Sweden	2
	Arda Turan	Turkey	2
	Nihat Kahveci	Turkey	2

David Villa might not be able to play in the final even though he is currently at the top of the goal scorers’ list with four goals to his credit, followed by German forward Lukas Podolski with three goals. Podolski could surpass Villa in the final match with a couple of more strikes. Except the German, there is no other active player in the second position who could challenge Villa’s four goals. Now, let us see if David Villa can walk away with the title of tournament’s highest goal scorer, even though he is most likely to miss the final due to thigh injury.

Related article:

Wikipedia