Only Ronaldo is the Euro goal scorer! Why not also Patrik Schick?

The Euros are over and UEFA, as the tournament organiser, handed out awards to the best footballers. Czech striker Patrik Schick, who scored five goals at the tournament, was on his way to one of them. However, he didn’t get the award for the top scorer. Why?

Only in one case did someone other than Patrik Schick score for the Czech team at the last European Championship. And you will undoubtedly remember in a few months that it was Tomáš Holeš in an extremely good game against the Netherlands.

But the next five goals were scored by him, a 25-year-old sniper from Prague. Two of his shots hit the Scots, one of which will be one of the best moments of the whole tournament, defacto in the middle of the pitch. He scored more goals against the Croats in the group, and then against the Dutch and the Danes.

Overall, he has as big a goal account as Cristiano Ronaldo himself. He scored two goals against Hungary, the same number was enough for Portugal to draw with France and he scored against Germany. But then he was knocked out in the eighth round, as he and his teammates were not able to beat Belgium.

But why did only the legendary CR7 end up receiving the beautiful trophy of the sponsor Alipay for the top scorer of the Euros? The criteria is a higher number of assists or a lower number of minutes played. The Juventus goal scorer fulfils both, as he made one assist against the Germans (Schick remained unassisted) and played 360 minutes in the tournament, while the Czech representative played 404 minutes.

Thus, Patrik Schick will not equal Milan Baros, who also won the award in 2004 thanks to his five goals scored, despite his great feat. Only Cristiano Ronaldo’s name will be written in the historical statistics.

As far as other awards are concerned, the best young player was the 18-year-old Spanish midfielder Pedri. He took his country all the way to the semi-finals, racking up 629 minutes played, 76 kilometres travelled and a superb 92.3% pass success rate along the way.

And the best ever player of the entire tournament was the winning team’s goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, who won the award at just 22 years old and interestingly enough, he did all this with his free agent status. However, it is taken for granted that when he achieves the big win, he will sign for PSG.

Incidentally, the Italian goalkeeper has become the first ever man at his post to achieve this accolade, and he has contributed to it with nine important saves and three clean sheets in seven games.

Source: UEFA