GROUP B England National Anthem God Save the Queen God save our gracious Queen! Long live our noble Queen! God save the Queen! Send her victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us, God save the Queen. Thy choicest gifts in store On her be pleased to pour, Long may she reign. May she defend our laws, And ever give us cause, Capital: London To sing with heart and voice, God save the Queen. Population: 53,010,000 There is only a 34 Currency: British Pound Sterling kilometre (21 mile) gap Area: 130,279km2 between England and Highest Peak: Scafell Pike (978 metres) France and the countries are connected by the Longest River: River Severn (350km) Channel Tunnel which opened in 1994. The city of London has a population of approximately Did you 12 million people, making it the largest city in all of Europe. know? English computer London is home scientist Tim There have been a to several UNESCO World Berners-Lee number of influential English Heritage Sites: The Tower of is credited with authors but perhaps the London, Royal Botanical Kew inventing the World Wide Web. most well-known is William Gardens, Westminster Palace, Shakespeare, who wrote Westminster Abbey, classics such as Romeo and St. Margaret’s Church, and Juliet, Macbeth Maritime Greenwich. and Hamlet. 14 English GROUP B football crest CURRENT SQUAD Joe Hart Manchester City FC English Jack Butland Stoke City FC Fraser Forster Southampton FC football Nathaniel Clyne Liverpool FC Leighton Baines Everton FC English Gary Cahill Chelsea FC football John Stones Everton FC team facts jersey Chris Smalling Manchester United FC Nickname: The Three Lions Phil Jagielka Everton FC Phil Jones Manchester United FC Captain: Wayne Rooney (right) Kieran Gibbs Arsenal FC Legend: Bobby Moore Dele Alli Tottenham Hotspur FC Manager: Roy Hodgson Ross Barkley Everton FC National Stadium: Wembley Stadium (90,000) Raheem Sterling Manchester City FC Adam Lallana Liverpool FC Kit Manufacturer: Nike Jordan Henderson Liverpool FC Most Appearances: Peter Shilton (125 caps) James Milner Liverpool FC Most Goals: Wayne Rooney (51 Goals) Fabian Delph Manchester City FC Alex Oxlade- Arsenal FC Euro Record: 3rd Place Euro 1968 Chamberlain FIFA Ranking: 10 Jamie Vardy Leicester City FC First International: v Scotland (Drew 0-0, 30/11/1872) Wayne Rooney Manchester United FC Largest Victory: v Northern Ireland (Won 13-0, 18/02/1882) Harry Kane Tottenham Hotspur FC Famous Result: v Germany (Won 4-2, 30/07/1996) Theo Walcott Arsenal FC 15 GROUP B National Anthem Russia Gosudarstvenny Gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii Rossiya – svyashchennaya nasha derzhava, Rossiya – lyubimaya nasha strana. Moguchaya volya, velikaya slava – Tvoyo dostoyanye na vse vremena! Pripev: Slav’sya, Otechestvo nashe svobodnoye, Bratskih narodov soyuz vekovoy, Predkami dannaya mudrost’ narodnaya! Slav’sya, strana! My gordimsya toboy! Ot yuzhnyh morey do polyarnogo kraya Raskinulis’ nashi lesa i polya. Odna ty na svete! Odna ty takaya – Khranimaya Bogom rodnaya zemlya! Pripev Shiroky prostor dlya mechty i dlya zhizni. Gryadushchiye nam otkryvayut goda. Nam silu dayot nasha vernost’ Otchizne. Tak bylo, tak yest’ i tak budet vsegda! Pripev Capital: Moscow Population: 143,975,923 Russia – our sacred homeland, Currency: Russian Ruble Russia – our beloved country. A mighty will, a great glory – Area: 17,098,242km2 The world’s These are your heritage for all time! first satellite, named Highest Peak: Mount Elbrus (5,642 metres) Sputnik, was launched Chorus: Longest River: River Volga (3,692km) by the Soviet Union in Be glorious, our free Fatherland, 1957. Age-old union of fraternal peoples, Ancestor-given wisdom of the people! Be glorious, our country! We are proud of you! Russia is located Did you across 11 time From the southern seas to the polar lands zones. Spread are our forests and fields. You are unique in the world, one of a kind – This native land protected by God! know? The Soviet Union (USSR) was a socialist state Chorus Russia has a wide range that occupied much of northern Wide spaces for dreams and for living of natural resources Asia and eastern Europe from Are opened for us by the coming years and is one of the world’s 1922 until it was dissolved in Our loyalty to the Fatherland gives us largest producers of oil. 1991. Former Soviet states include strength. So it was, so it is, and so it always will be! Lithuania, Georgia, Latvia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and others. Chorus 16 GROUP B Russian football crest CURRENT SQUAD Igor Akinfeev CSKA Moscow Russian Yuri Lodigin Zenit Saint Petersburg Artyom Rebrov Spartak Moscow football Sergei Ignashevich CSKA Moscow Russian Yuri Zhirkov Zenit Saint Petersburg football Aleksei Berezutski CSKA Moscow team facts jersey Dmitri Kombarov Spartak Moscow Roman Shishkin Lokomotiv Moscow Nickname: Sbornaya Georgi Shchennikov CSKA Moscow Captain: Roman Shirokov Oleg Kuzmin Rubin Kazan Ivan Novoseltsev FC Rostov Legend: Lev Yashin Russians drive Andrei Semyonov FC Terek Grozny Manager: Leonid Slutsky on the right National Stadium: No Permanent Stadium hand side of Igor Denisov Dynamo Moscow the road. Roman Shirokov CSKA Moscow Kit Manufacturer: Adidas Alan Dzagoev CSKA Moscow Most Appearances: Sergei Ignashevich (115) Denis Glushakov Spartak Moscow Most Goals: Aleksandr Kerzhakov (30) Aleksandr Samedov Lokomotiv Moscow Aleksei Ionov Dynamo Moscow Euro Record: Champions (1960) Denis Cheryshev Valencia CF FIFA Ranking: 27 Pavel Mamayev FC Krasnodar First International: v Mexico (Won 2-0, 16/08/1992) Aleksandr Kerzhakov FC Zürich Largest Victory: v Liechtenstein (Won 7-0, 08/09/2015) Artyom Dzyuba Zenit Saint Petersburg Famous Result: v Yugoslavia (Won 2-1, 10/07/1960) Fyodor Smolov Krasnodar 17 GROUP B Slovakia National Anthem Nad Tatrou sa blýska Nad Tatrou sa blýska Hromy divo bijú Zastavme ich, bratia Veď sa ony stratia Slováci ožijú To Slovensko naše Posiaľ tvrdo spalo Ale blesky hromu Vzbudzujú ho k tomu Aby sa prebralo Capital: Bratislava There is lightning over the Tatras Thunders loudly sound Population: 5,415,949 Let us stop them, brothers Currency: Euro Štefan Banič After all they will disappear The Slovaks will revive Area: 49,035km2 (1870-1941) invented the first Highest Peak: Mount Gerlachovsky (2,655 metres) actively used That Slovakia of ours parachute, patenting Had been sleeping by now Longest River: Vah River (403km) But the thunder’s lightnings it in 1913. Are rousing the land to wake it up The oldest artefact found in Did you Slovakia is the Moravian Venus, a 7.6cm high statue of a woman cut from a mammoth tusk, dating to know? 22,800BC. The capital of The oldest marathon Traditional Slovakia, Bratislava, lies on in Europe is held meals include potato every year in Košice the borders with Austria and dumplings with sheep’s on the first Sunday Hungary. That makes the city cheese and cabbage soup in October. the only one capital in the world with sausages. that borders two independent countries. 18 Slovakian GROUP B football crest CURRENT SQUAD Ján Mucha Slovan Bratislava Slovakian Matúš Kozáčik Viktoria Plzeň Ján Novota Rapid Wien football Martin Škrtel Liverpool Slovakian Ján Ďurica Lokomotiv Moscow football Tomáš Hubočan Dynamo Moscow team facts jersey Kornel Saláta Slovan Bratislava Dušan Švento 1. FC Köln Nickname: Národná reprezentácia Norbert Gyömbér Roma Captain: Martin Skrtel Lukáš Tesák FC Kairat Legend: Ľubomír Moravčík Marek Hamšík Napoli Manager: Ján Kozák Stanislav Šesták Ferencváros National Stadium: Štadión pod Dubňom (11,313) Vladimír Weiss Al-Gharafa SC Juraj Kucka A.C. Milan Kit Manufacturer: PUMA Viktor Pečovský Žilina Most Appearances: Miroslav Karhan (107 caps) Róbert Mak PAOK Most Goals: Róbert Vittek (23 goals) Ondrej Duda Legia Warsaw Patrik Hrošovský Viktoria Plzeň Euro Record: Debut at Euro 2016 Erik Sabo PAOK FIFA Ranking: 32 First International: v Germany (Won 2-0, 27/08/1939) Róbert Vittek Slovan Bratislava Martin Jakubko Ružomberok Largest Victory: v San Marino (Won 7-0, 06/06/2009) Michal Ďuriš Viktoria Plzeň Famous Result: v Italy (Won 3-2, 24/06/2010) Adam Nemec Willem II 19 GROUP B Wales National Anthem Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi, Gwlad beirdd a chantorion, enwogion o fri; Ei gwrol ryfelwyr, gwladgarwyr tra mad, Dros ryddid collasant eu gwaed. (Chorus) Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i’m gwlad. Tra môr yn fur i’r bur hoff bau, O bydded i’r hen iaith barhau. The land of my fathers is dear to me, Country of poets and singers, Capital: Cardiff celebrities indeed: Its warring defenders, so gallant and Population: 3,063,456 brave, Currency: British Pound Sterling For freedom their life’s blood they gave Area: 20,779km2 Cardiff’s Land!, Land!, Pledge-ful I am to my Highest Peak: Mount Snowdon (1,085 metres) Millennium Stadium country! While seas secure Longest River: River Towy (120km) has the largest This land so pure, retractable roof of O may our old language endure. any sports stadium in the world. Did you know? The monastery of The country of The village of Bangor-on-Dee, Wales is said to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrn near Wrexham, is the contain more oldest in Britain. It castles per square -drobwllllantysiliogogogoch (translated in mile than any other English as ‘St. Mary’s Church in the hollow was founded country in the world. of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and in 560. the church of St. Tysilio of the red cave’) is famous for having the longest place name in Europe (58 letters). 20 GROUP B Welsh football crest CURRENT SQUAD Wayne Hennessey Crystal Palace FC Welsh Owain Fôn Williams Inverness Caledonian Thistle