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EURO 2008: Draw sets up heavyweight contests
EURO 2008: Draw sets up heavyweight contests
December 2 --- UEFA.com: Former winners the Netherlands, Italy and France will meet in Group C (Romania, who finished ahead of the Netherlands on the road to Austria and Switzerland, complete the most testing of the groups)...
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Euro 2008 Draw: Yep, The Seeding Was Total Garbage
And Your Kids Too — ... The Euro 2008 Draw went this morning in Lucerne, Switzerland, and as I predicted yesterday, the Dutch basically got screwed. But to be fair, they probably didn't get screwed as much as the French or Italians. ...

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