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Over the years, many future stars have been a result of the Under-21 European Championships.

The likes of Cole Palmer, Pedro Neto, and Rayan Cherki, who all currently play prominent roles for their respective senior sides, were competing for the first title under manager Lee Carsley in 2023.

Looking back, Laurent Blanc, Andrea Pirlo, and Luis Figo also saw their names emerge from the tournament.

What about the current generation, then? Who among the participants in Slovakia’s past month has designated themselves as a must-see?

You will be just as likely to be if you weren’t aware of Nick Woltemade before the U21 European Championship.

The German forward had six goals and three assists overall, ranking him as the top scorer in Slovakia.

He has repeatedly demonstrated his potential to be a class above Under-21 during the tournament and explained why he already holds two senior national caps.

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The 23-year-old scored a breakthrough goal for Stuttgart in a February interview and was even given the nickname “two metre Messi-Musiala” by the Bundesliga side’s club captain Atakan Karazor.

Former Leeds United defender Charlie Cresswell, who is currently a member of Ligue 1 side Toulouse, deserves his flowers, despite the fact that attackers will always be in the spotlight.

One might argue that having a regular job in the French top division has already led to his “break out,” but his near-faultless performances in Slovakia only add to that fact.

As England kept their trophy, the 22-year-old played every game of the tournament for them.

More than any other player, he averaged a sizable 8.67 ball recoveries per 90 minutes and totaled 52 overall.

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In the Czech Republic’s opening game of the tournament, Cresswell also scored on the other end of the field.

Geovany Quenda, a midfielder who will pique Chelsea fans, kicked off a promising new year at Sporting with an equally impressive international debut.

The teenager signed for Chelsea for up to £44 million in March, and they’ll stay there until the end of the 2025-26 campaign.

Portuguese football journalist and pundit Mariana Fernandes claimed he will be “worth double” in two years, despite the fact that the fee seemed high for a player who was only 17 at the time.

And while the now 18-year-old was competing in the European Championship, he revealed why Enzo Maresca wanted to spend the money to bring him to Stamford Bridge.

He was the team’s top scorer with three goals and two assists, and he also contributed two assists to Portugal’s four matches, which they were eliminated from in the quarter-finals by the Netherlands.

In the second half of the 2024-2019 season, the 21-year-old made his first appearance for French Ligue 1 side Rennes and hasn’t looked back.

His central midfield performances contributed greatly to Gerald Baticle’s team’s success this summer, where he continued to excel in the summer.

Cisse was not present in the first game, but he was replaced in the second group game, and from that point on she became uncontrollable.

The Rennes man was a true box-to-box midfielder who excelled for his ability to pick up the ball deep, carry it forward, and cross the lines.

He had a 91.75% passing accuracy throughout the tournament and three goals for him. He also had one assist.

Although it’s said that being a goalkeeper can be lonely, Georgia’s Luka Kharatishvili was never so lonely at the European Championship, which he was constantly kept very busy.

The 22-year-old, who collaborates with Dinamo Batumi in the Georgian first tier, performed exceptionally well for his nation at the tournament.

Georgia could have had a lot worse situation if it hadn’t been for some outstanding saves from their number one, despite conceding eight goals in three games.

In addition to the one that will put him in contention for the tournament save, he also produced six stops in France’s lopsided 3-2 defeat.

In the final group game, he also saved a magnificent save in the last second to give Georgia a 2-1 victory over Poland.

Unfortunately, those three points did not help the side advance, but it was a significant moment for a country that was competing in their second European Championship.

In a thrilling top-of-the-table contest, Wigan fought back to maintain their dominance over St. Helens, who were closest to winning.

Warriors’ 22-22 draw extended their unbeaten start to the season with a late try thanks to Eva Hunter.

The leaders are one point ahead of Saints, who suffered a close defeat in the Challenge Cup final against Wigan.

In another area, York Valkyrie resurrected on Sunday with a 70-0 win over winless Warrington, while Huddersfield kept pace with the top four with a 32-12 victory over second-bottom Barrow.

Three weeks prior, Warriors had defeated Saints 42-6 in a one-sided Wembley final, but this encounter between the division’s two remaining unbeaten sides turned out to be a true arm-wrestle.

Before Georgia Wilson cut the deficit, Saints went up by 12-0 with the help of Dani McGifford and Chantelle Crowl, but Vicky Whitfield added another try for the hosts, who finished 16-6 at the break.

Before the halfway point of the second half, Wigan responded with a goal through Grace Banks and Anna Davies, but with 12 minutes left, Luci McColm kicked a penalty and headed over to give Saints a six-point lead.

When Leah Clough responded to Tilly Davies’ opening score, second-bottom Barrow made it 20-6 up at the break when the Giants answered with two tries from Amelia Brown and Mollie Iceton.

The gap was shattered by Nicole Stewart’s own try thanks to a Lois Naidole score and a second attempt by Iceton.

Evie Sexton, Emma Kershaw (2), Tamzin Renouf, and Savannah Andrade all scored in the first two games as Warrington, a basement side, had scored 196 points without giving a reply in their previous two games and were now 30-0 up against defending champions York.

Lando Norris won the Austrian Grand Prix after overcoming a McLaren team-mate’s long-range challenge.

Prior to the British Grand Prix next weekend, Norris’ third victory of the year, a McLaren one-two, reduced his championship deficit to 15 points, the Australians’.

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc took the final podium spot 17 seconds ahead of McLarens, with team-mate Lewis Hamilton finishing fourth, a further nine seconds behind.

After passing Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, who had split the McLarens in qualifying, at the corner, Piastri put pressure on Briton Norris in the opening session.

At the end of lap 10, Norris made errors in Turns Nine and 10 that gave Piastri a chance to run into him the rest of the way.

At Turn Three, Piastri briefly took the lead before Norris repassed at the following turn.

And Piastri made a late-dive down the inside of Turn Four on lap 20 before stuttering and avoiding hitting Norris’ car.

At the finish of that lap, Norris made his first stop. After three more laps, Pirastroi made his, and through the middle stint, Norris appeared to be in charge.

However, with 17 and 16 laps to go, Piastri started closing in once more after their final stops, which they made one after the other.

With 10 laps to go, Piastri, who had come out of his stop four seconds behind Norris, went on the radio to request assistance from his engineer, Will Joseph.

With six laps to go, Piastri was frightened by Alpine’s Franco Colapinto’s reversible turn, but he managed to maintain the pressure on Norris after being pushed onto the grass on the straight between Turns Three and Four. For the incident, the Argentine was given a five-second penalty.

Leclerc and Hamilton had a difficult race, finishing third and fourth overall for the entire grand prix, but Leclerc and Hamilton were in a lonely position as his engineer ignored him and called him anyway.

Russell was essentially the only racer to manage a one-stop strategy that worked in sixth and seventh places while Liam Lawson of Racing Bulls and Fernando Alonso of Aston Martin spent the majority of the race nose to tail.

Alonso and Lawson were within a second of each other for the entirety of their first practice session, and they soon rose again after making a stop one lap later. However, Alonso was reportedly a little quicker, but he was unable to move on the New Zealander.

Alonso was briefly passed at Turn Three with two laps left before the two-stopping Sauber of Gabriel Bortoleto, but the Spaniard used all of his experience to cut in and retake the position with the DRS overtaking aid going into Turn Four.

Alonso held on to lead the race in seventh place ahead of the Brazilian, who had already won his first points in Formula 1, after the McLarens came up ahead of them on the final lap.

Nico Hulkenberg of Sauber won the race for ninth place and Esteban Ocon of Haas won the championship.

1. McLaren’s Lando Norris

2. McLaren’s Oscar Piastri

3. (Ferrari) Charles Leclerc

4. Robert Hamilton (Ferrari)

5. George Russell (Mercedes)

6. (Racing Bulls) Lawson

7. Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso

8. Sabrina (Gabriel Bortoleto)

9. Sauber, Nicki Hulkenberg

With a victory over Germany on the final weekend of the season, England’s women’s hockey team avoided being eliminated from the Pro League.

With 100 seconds left, Elizabeth Neal and Sabbie Heesh’s save from a penalty stroke in the sixth minute ensured that they would unquestionably top the nine-team table in Berlin.

In the second match on Sunday, Germany won 4-2 to keep their own record of surviving, putting India in the ascendancy and putting England in seventh place overall.

Jacob Payton’s goal was the only goal scored in their opening game on Saturday in Antwerp, which they comfortably lost to 3-1.

In a thrilling 4-4 draw, Zachary Wallace, Phil Roper, Will Calnan, and Liam Sanford scored in a much closer match.

The hosts were awarded a penalty when that happened, but Wallace, Roper, and Stuart Rushmere botched their chances to make it 3-0.

Marc White, the owner and manager of Dorking Wanderers, was given a six-game touchline ban for a statement he made on a women’s podcast.

In his 1,000th game as club manager, White was punished for remarks he made before his side lost 3-1 to Weston-super-Mare last year.

Before the National League South game, he said, “You have to pay a little more respect to the women refs, so you know what I mean? ” In a conversation with the Under the Cosh podcast before the game.

You must show some more respect, such as helping them park.

White was charged by the Football Association in May with using offensive or verbal language in the interview, calling it an “aggravated breach” of the rules because it made reference to gender.

The club announced that White will now be barred from using the touchline for Dorking’s National League South’s first six games.

First team manager Marc White has received a six-game touchline suspension starting the league season as a result of (intended fun) comments made on a podcast about women drivers. The club posted a message on their X account.

Since the club’s formation in 1999, White has become one of the most recognizable faces in non-league football and has been a vocal and frequently controversial player.

He claimed he had been banned from 12 stadiums during an Under the Cosh interview.

Emma Navarro and Jannik Sinner have a lot in common. Both tennis players in their early 20s have had excellent success, but they both want more, and they have almost all of their tennis energy concentrated on singles.

They will play doubles together at the US Open in August. They made their first official appearance on Friday.

When asked about the partnership, Italian world number one Sinner responded, “It was very unexpected to be honest.” She was the first person I met on Friday. We had never texted or spoken to one another.

The United States Tennis Association made the decision to hold the US Open mixed doubles this year as a standalone event on August 19 through August 20 before the hard-court Grand Slam will begin on August 24. The association said it hoped it would draw more well-known singles players.

One of the intriguing pairings that has been created for the tournament, which features Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz and British number one Emma Raducanu.

The general rule of doubles is that the better you know someone, the better you play together.

Sinner and Navarro can, however, take confidence from the instances of unexpected pairings coming off the top.

Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen, for instance, both won the 2016 Wimbledon mixed doubles title despite never having played together prior to the match and having several fights in the final.

Sinner explained at Wimbledon, where the first round matchup will take place on Tuesday against fellow Italian Luca Nardi, that the tournament kind of wanted us to play together because some teams had already been set up.

“I’m very happy to play with Emma, even though the choice wasn’t very big.” I already warned her against letting her down for my poor volleys.

Sinner has never competed in doubles before, winning the past two Australian Open titles and the US Open the previous year. He has also won the previous three Grand Slam singles titles.

Navarro, a quarter-finalist of the Australian Open and Wimbledon, has made numerous Grand Slam doubles appearances, but he also made it to the US Open semi-finals last year.

But she has never won a doubles match at the US Open.

In men’s doubles, Sinner ranks fifth overall in the world, while Navarro is ranked fifth overall by the WTA.

The US Open mixed doubles entry list also includes entries from numerous famous people, including Naomi Osaka, Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek, Nick Kyrgios, and Iga Swiatek. Zheng Qinwen, the sixth-ranked Chinese player, and Jack Draper will both be in the film.

On the eve of Wimbledon, Sinner is confident that his tournament chances won’t suffer as a result of splitting up with two key team members.

The 23-year-old’s trainer Marco Panichi and physiotherapist Ulises Badio, who have been working with him since September 2024, made the decision to keep their Australian Open titles in January and advance to the French Open final in June.

I recently parted ways, but it hasn’t had an impact on me, according to Sinner. I’m prepared to compete, I said. I experience freedom.

We’ve had incredible results with them in the past, which is obviously a huge thank you. But I made the decision to make a different choice.