The European team competitions set the closure this season with the final of the European sub 21. Last Saturday, in Bratislava, England returned to proclaim himself European champion. That successful defense of the title achieved two years ago in Georgia It gives the selection of the three lions its fourth euro sub 21, leaving only a step below the queens of the competition: Spain and Italy, with five.
Selections tournaments disputed in 2025 place Portugal as the most powerful country in continental football. For the Portuguese, the first title of the year was the Eurocup sub 17. On June 1, in the National Arena de TiranaPortugal gave no option to France: 3-0.
A week later, it was the absolute selection that celebrated a title. In Munich, in the penalty shootout and with Cristiano Ronaldo as captain, the team of Roberto Martínez He won the Nations League against Spain. Portugal is the first selection that achieves two titles in this competition.
Spain has stayed at the gates of two titles: the aforementioned of the Nations League and that of the Sub 19. The team of Paco Gallardo He reached the final, but could not revalidate what was achieved in 2024 in Northern Ireland at 0-1 against Netherlands, in a final in which the posts crossed with the Spanish boys.
Despite those two lost finals, Space It remains, and from afar, the great European power. It is when talking about clubs and as much or more if the selections are on the table.
With 29 titles -Cinco of the absolute and 24 of the lower-Spain sees its first chasing in competitions of UEFA selections very far. The second is France, with 14. The French only have one euro sub 21 (1988) and do not win the sub 19 since 2016.
The best moves and all goals.
The other federation that has played gold in this 2025 is that of Netherlands. For the Orange, This year it will remain as its inclusion in the select group of nations that have been champions in all the categories of European football. Their title in the Sub 19 is the first for the Dutch, which allows them to enter the room where Spain, France, Italy, Germany and Russia (Soviet Union) were already. Of these, alone The Red and LBlue They can boast of having all the titles.
Both are champions of the Nations League, a trophy that is missing in the Palmares of Italy and Germany. Portugal lacks the sub 21.
The English problem
If England is not part of that best club, it is not because its quarry does not work. A decade ago, its lower teams conquer Eurocopas, in addition to the U17 and Sub 20 World Cups in 2017.
Ballingham's ball that leaves her on the front so that Palmer, with the left -handed
But the English are unable to transfer those good results to the major selection. Is accountant has the World of 1966 And it is zero in Europe, where it has lost the last two finals of the Eurocup.
Woltemade, Elliott …
With the Club World Cup still in circulation, the season for the teams will start in September. Then a campaign will start as an absolute event of the 2026 World Cup, the The United States, Mexico and Canada. Spain will premiere in the classification phase with two exits: Bulgaria and Türkiye.
The Sub 21, pending to know who will be its coach, will premiere generation with the aim of being in the European of 2027 -albania and Serbia- and, there, to achieve the Olympic square. For the sub 17 and the sub 19, the sight is put in the Estonia and Wales Europeans, respectively.
The year of the Absolute World Cup is entered with a payroll of players who this summer have strongly called at the gates of their selectors. Germany arrived with a striker, Nick Woltemadethat the previous week had been with the absolute in the Final Four. With his future pending a possible transfer of Stuttgart al Bayern, the Bremen giant is a safe bet among the doubts generated by Germany of Nagelsmann.
The Betis player scored this Olympic goal in the European sub 19
From that Muelvakia Eurocup, even more strongly comes out than Woltemade The English Harvey Elliott. His exhibition in the final, with two goals against Germany, involves the closure of a stage in the lower England, in which he has been twice European European champion (2023 and 2025), in addition to having been named the best player of the Tournament in Slovakia. Now faces the jump to the absolute and seeks to enter the plans of Tuchel For the World Cup.
The baby 'Spain'
With an absolute selection of young people -until nine sub 21 were on the list of Of the source For the Final Four-, the name of summer in the Spanish lower has been the Pablo García.
The left -hander of Betis, Beyond the four goals in the rioted semifinal of the sub 19 against Germany, It still has the absolute. But the dynamics of Spanish football make it clear that, if it is able to break into the first with the force that has shown this season in its club and in the selection, the deadlines can accelerate. The examples abound.
