Contents 4 Big shot: Celebration time 14 7 UEFA General Secretary’s message 9 Welcome to Serbia 11 News from UEFA 12 Match schedule 14 Meet the teams 17 Mladen Kocić: Special motivation Group A 19 Serbia 20 Portugal 22 21 Slovenia 22 Ones to watch 25 Daniel: Record breaker 26 Dejan Stanković: My Belgrade Group B 29 Spain 30 Ukraine 34 31 Hungary 33 Qualifying by numbers 34 Greatest games Group C © <strong>2016</strong> adidas AG. adidas, the 3-Bars logo and the 3-Stripes mark are registered trademarks of the adidas Group. Editor Michael Harrold Design James Willsher, Oliver Meikle Picture editor Paul Murphy Illustration Katy Godbeer Production manager Aleksandra Sersniova Contributors Gonzalo Aguado, Oqtay Atayev, Aleksandr Bošković, Chris Burke, Francesco Corda, Patrick Hart, Martyn Hindley, Elvir Islamović, Aydin Kozhakhmetov, Andy Lockwood, Igor Lynnik, Richard Martin, Paolo Menicucci, Laurent Morel, Dmitri Rogovitski, Paul Saffer, Rok Šinkovc, Matthew Watson-Broughton, Paul-Daniel Zaharia, Ondřej Zlámal Photography AFFA, Action Images, Marko Djurić, FACR, FIGC, FFU, FPF, FRF, FSS, Getty Images, HNS, KFF, Fedja Krvavac, Viktoria Melnik, MLSZ, NZS, Pixsell, RFEF, Sportida, Sportsfile, Thinkstock, Pedja Milosavljević, Vlatko Perkovski, RFS, UEFA, Katarzyna Zaremba Printing Artgraphic Cavin Designed and produced by TwelfthMan on behalf of UEFA 41 53 © UEFA <strong>2016</strong>. All rights reserved. The UEFA word, the UEFA logo and all marks related to UEFA and competitions are protected by trade marks and/or copyright of UEFA. No use for commercial purposes may be made of such trade marks. UEFA.com 37 Russia 38 Croatia 39 Kazakhstan 41 Moment in time: Ricardinho 42 Rules of the game 45 Roberto Menichelli: Back for more Group D 47 Italy 48 Czech Republic 49 Azerbaijan 51 EURO facts and figures 53 Alex Teixeira: Futsal first 54 Tricks of the trade 3