UEFA U-17 Championship 2004 Final Tournament

I found this pic on google, seeing these 3 players together winning something it made me wonder, what did they win, who else was in their team, what team did they beat in the final and where are these players now?

Here is the info i have managed to find:

France 2 - 1 Spain
Constant 1, Nasri 79, Piqué 63

The UEFA U-17 Championship 2004 Final Tournament was held in France between 4 May and 15 May 2004.

Top Scorer: Hatem Ben Arfa, Bruno Gama, Shane Paul and Marc Pedraza with 3 goals each.

Golden Player: Cesc Fàbregas

France

* 1 Benoît Costil
* 3 Thomas Mangani
* 4 Abdelkarim El Mourabet
* 5 Steven Thicot
* 6 Pierre Ducasse
* 8 Ahmed Yahiaoui
* 9 Jérémy Menez
* 10 Samir Nasri
* 11 Hatem Ben Arfa
* 12 Ognadon Akakpo
* 14 Kévin Constant

Substitutes

* 16 Rémy Riou
* 2 Maxime Josse
* 7 Franck Songo'o
* 13 Irélé Apo
* 15 Stéphane Marseille
* 17 Jean-Christophe Cesto
* 18 Karim Benzema

Coach: Philippe Bergeroo

Spain

* 1 Antonio Adán
* 2 Cristian Del Moral Aparicio
* 3 José Pla Mollá
* 4 David Lombán
* 5 Gerard Piqué
* 6 Mario Suárez
* 7 Carlos Carmona
* 8 Cesc Fàbregas
* 10 Javi García
* 11 Marcos Barreño
* 14 Marc Pedraza

Substitutes

* 13 Antonio Gomez Campins
* 12 Diego Capel
* 15 Esteban Granero
* 16 Jorge Gotor Blas
* 17 Jonathan Pereira

Coach: Juan Santisteban

Does anyone know how the two teams lined-up in the final in terms formation?

And who were rated the best players in their team back then?

Saw the match, but can't remember the exact line-ups. Thought Cesc playd a bit more attacking than nowadays that tourney. Before the tournney Cesc & Nasri were most hyped/highest rated

While on the subject of successful youth teams, heer is the squad of Italy's winning U21s in 2004:

Starters:
1 Marco Amelia
3 Emiliano Moretti
5 Daniele Bonera
6 Daniele De Rossi
8 Angelo Palombo
9 Alberto Gilardino
11 Giuseppe Sculli
13 Andrea Barzagli
14 Cesare Bovo
15 Marco Donadel
17 Giondomenico Mesto
Substitutes
12 Federico Agliardi
22 Carlo Zotti
2 Cristian Zaccardo
4 Alessandro Gamberini
10 Matteo Brighi
16 Alessandro Potenza
18 Alessandro Rosina
19 Simone Del Nero
20 Andrea Caracciolo
21 Gaetano D'Agostino

Its surprising to see how many of these kids have made it, and also shocking that many of them have not been given a chance to represent the Azzurri even now inspite of doing well for their clubs.

Going back further to the 1996 winning team where Totti was the star of teh championship, here are some of those players:

Gianluigi Buffon
Fabio Cannavaro
Salvatore Fresi
Alessandro Nesta
Christian Panucci
Luigi Sartor
Alessio Tacchinardi
Damiano Tommasi
Nicola Amoruso
Marco Delvecchio
Francesco Totti

One thing you have to admit about the italian youth system - a high percentage of them make it.

2006 Holland's winning squad :

1 Kenneth Vermeer
2 Paul Verhaegh
3 Gijs Luirink
4 Ramon Zomer
5 Urby Emanuelson
6 Stijn Schaars
7 Romeo Castelen
8 Nicky Hofs
9 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
10 Ismaïl Aissati
11 Daniël de Ridder
12 Haris Međunjanin
13 Patrick Gerritsen
14 Collins John
15 Fred Benson
16 Dwight Tiendalli
17 Ron Vlaar
18 Arnold Kruiswijk
19 Edson Braafheid
20 Demy de Zeeuw
21 Michel Vorm
22 Remko Pasveer

The ones in bold haven't made it (so far)....

(in case of Luirink & Vlaar because of injury upon injury)

Recognise the names of a lot of that French team actually! All the first team cept for 5,8, 12 and 14

Our U21 Euro Champs squad from 2000:

1 GK Nicky Weaver
2 DF Danny Mills
3 DF Seth Johnson
5 DF Jamie Carragher
7 MF Frank Lampard
9 FW Carl Cort
10 MF Danny Murphy
11 MF Lee Hendrie
13 GK Paul Robinson
15 MF David Thompson
16 FW Francis Jeffers
19 DF Ledley King
DF Luke Young
MF Luke Chadwick
FW Matt Jansen
FW Andy Campbell

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