QUOTE: I'd just like to point out that the Czech squad that rowdy posted up last week is only provisional.
Of course, this is a caveat which applies to each squad, any changes must be made before tomorrow.
Landzaat and Boschker have been eliminated from the Dutch squad, Deac has been confirmed as one of the Romanian squad not to make the final 23, in addition to Danut Coman, Ovidiu Petre is also out of the competition injured, Pavlenko and Ivanov are out of Russia's squad leaving them with a final 23, Turkey's right-back Gökhan Gönül misses the tournament as well and for Switzerland there were a few changes to the original list; Coltorti is replaced by Eldin Jakupovic of Grasshopper, while Steve von Bergen and Blaise Nkufo are also out through injury. 33 year-old Thomas Häberli of Young Boys has been called up to replace Nkufo.
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Everyone here assumes that Montolivo will be the "24th man" left home tomorrow, now that Perotta has overcome the knock he got in the Cup Final and Cassano has been on his best behaviour.
If you can get odds of 100 to 1 on Cassano being top scorer, I'd take them.
There's less than an hour to go before each coach has to submit his final choice. Bratu has been cut from the Romanian squad, Marin has unsurprisingly made way from the final German squad, as Ursus said, Montolivo has been dropped from the Italian selection and Poland have finalised their team; Grzegorz Bronowicki, Radoslaw Majewski and Radoslaw Matusiak fail to make the cut from the provisional squad.
Austria's final squad (in brackets:club, caps,goals):
Goalkeepers
Alexander Manninger (AC Siena/26 )
Jürgen Macho (AEK Athen/14)
Ramazan Özcan (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim)
Defence
Martin Stranzl (Spartak Moskau/44/2)
Emanuel Pogatetz (FC Middlesbrough/26/1)
Markus Katzer (SK Rapid Wien/10)
György Garics (SSC Napoli/11/1)
Sebastian Prödl (SK Sturm Graz/9/2)
Ronald Gercaliu (FK Austria Wien/10)
Martin Hiden (SK Austria Kärnten/48/1)
Jürgen Patocka (SK Rapid Wien/2)
Midfield
Joachim Standfest (FK Austria Wien/30/2) Christian Fuchs (SV Mattersburg/17)
Rene Aufhauser (Red Bull Salzburg/50/10)
Ivica Vastic (LASK Linz/47/12)
Christoph Leitgeb (Red Bull Salzburg/18) Andreas Ivanschitz (Panathinaikos/38/6)
Jürgen Säumel (SK Sturm Graz/10)
Ümit Korkmaz (SK Rapid Wien/1)
Forwards
Martin Harnik (SV Werder Bremen/7/1)
Roland Linz (SC Braga/30/5)
Roman Kienast (Ham-Kam/6/1)
Erwin Hoffer (SK Rapid Wien/3)
1 - Bogdan Ionut Lobont
2 - Cosmin Marius Contra
3 - Razvan Rat Dinca
4 - Gabriel Sebastian Tamas
5 - Cristian Eugen Chivu
6 - Matei Mirel Radoi
7 - Florentin Petre
8 - Paul Constantin Codrea
9 - Ciprian Andrei Marica
10 - Adrian Mutu
11 - Razvan Vasile Cocis
12 - Marius Viorel Popa
13 - Cristian Ionut Sapunaru
14 - Sorin Ghionea
15 - Dorin Nicolai Goian
16 - Banel Nicolita
17 - Cosmin Iosif Moti
18 - Marius Constantin Niculae
19 - Adrian Cristea
20 - Nicolae Constantin Dica
21 - George Daniel Niculae
22 - Stefan Radu
23 - Eduard Cornel Stancioiu
Helmes and Jermaine Jones have been dropped alongside Marin from Germany's squad.
Meanwhile, the Dutch have sorted out their final squad complete with squad numbers; as expected, Bouhlarouz is rejected in favour of Melchiot and Ooijer.
1. Edwin van der Sar
2. André Ooijer
3. John Heitinga
4. Joris Mathijsen
5. Giovanni van Bronckhorst
6. Demy de Zeeuw
7. Robin van Persie
8. Orlando Engelaar
9. Ruud van Nistelrooy
10. Wesley Sneijder
11. Arjen Robben
12. Mario Melchiot
13. Henk Timmer
14. Wilfred Bouma
15. Tim de Cler
16. Maarten Stekelenburg
17. Nigel de Jong
18. Dirk Kuyt
19. Klaas Jan Huntelaar
20. Ibrahim Afellay
21. Ryan Babel
22. Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
23. Rafael van der Vaart
For France, Mandanda has been selected in preference to Landreau, yesterday's performance from Bafétimbi Gomis puts him in the squad instead of Djibril Cissé, Makélélé and Toulalan are selected over Flamini and Escudé misses out with Boumsong in the squad.
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If anyone finds a list or link to all of the squads with squad numbers and players' clubs so I can get PES updated as perfectly as possible in time for the tournament it would be much appreciated.
With regards to the wikipedia link, there's a discrepancy in the Romania squad; Bratu is in their list in place of Moti. All the same, wikipedia does serve as a useful general introduction for those unfamiliar squad members.
Turkey's squad:
Goalkeepers: Volkan Demirel, Rustu Recber, Tolga Zengin
Defenders: Sabri Sarioglu, Gokhan Zan, Emre Asik, Servet Cetin, Hakan Kadir Balta, Ugur Boral, Emre Gungor
According to coach Fatih Terim, his injury record and the system Turkey will play were important factors in the decision to drop him.
QUOTE: I have a system in my mind for my team and unfortunately I concluded I couldn't name Yildiray in this ideal starting XI. He would be a substitute and that could affect his morale, so I decided to leave him out of our final squad.