Football Mania

Today the Euro Cup 2008 kicked off in Switzerland and Austria. If you would like to follow the tournament and the players, you can check out the UEFA website in English and learn lots of football and sport related vocabulary!

The Euro Cup also gives us a perfect opportunity to revise the names of some European countries which students often forget! So here, in alphabetical order, are the competing countries in this year's tournament.

Austria
Croatia
(The) Czech Republic
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
(The) Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey

Do you know what the people from these countries are called? To check your answers go to the comments box at the end of this post. Then if you would like to test yourself further, do this online quiz!