In 2006, Italy beat France on penalties to win the World Cup for the fourth time in their history.
15 years later, Italy have beaten England 3-2 on penalties to win the European Championship for the first time since 1968.
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22% - England have won just 22% (2/9) of their major tournament shootouts (World Cup/EUROs), the lowest ratio of any European nation to have been involved in three or more. Brutal.
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Game is over and the final score is Italy 1**-** 1 England（3-2 pens). Here is the match report.
Match Events
0’ The match is about to start!
0’ KICK-OFF! Who can win the final?
1’ GOAL! Italy 0-1 England (Shaw)
7’ CHANCE! Insigne’s free-kick over the bar
24’ Jorginho appears to be injured
35’ CLOSE! Chiesa’s long shot inches wide
46’ Yellow Card! Barella booked
48’ Sterling goes down in the box but ref says no penalty!
51’ AGAIN! Insigne’s free-kick inches wide
56’ Maguire’s header over the bar
57’ Insigne’s shot denied by Pickford
62’ CLOSE! Chiesa’s shot saved by Pickford
64’ CHANCE! Stones’ header over the bar
66’ GOAL! Italy 1-1 England (Bonucci)
73’ CLOSE! Berardi’s shot over the bar
83’ Yellow Card! Insigne booked
86’ Injured Chiesa replaced by Bernardeschi
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34 & 71 - Leonardo Bonucci (34 years and 71 days) has become the oldest scorer in a EURO final, beating the previous record of Bernd Hölzenbein in 1976 (30 years and 103 days).
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53 - Italy have won their second European Championship trophy after 53 years from their first one (1968), the largest gap for a single side in the history of the competition. CHAMPIONS!
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OFFICIAL: Gianluigi Donnarumma has been named Player of the Tournament.
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DWDWWWWWWWWWWWDWWDDWWWWWWWWWWWWWDW
Italy are just one game away from equalling the longest unbeaten run in international history.
And now they have a trophy to show for it. 
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Great distribution throughout
Strong defensive display at 34
Scored the all-important equaliser
Italy hero Leonardo Bonucci = Star of the Match! 
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Only three Chelsea players have won the Champions League and the European Championships in the same season and played in both finals:
Juan Mata (2012)
Fernando Torres (2012)
Jorginho (2021)
Next up: Ballon d’Or 
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It all came down to this…
Congratulations to Italy - The Euro 2020 Champions! 
My heart goes out to England. 
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Luis Enrique: “What Pedri has done in this tournament, at 18, no one has done. Not even Andrés Iniesta did that; it’s incredible, unique.”
UEFA’s team of Technical Observers have named Pedri as their Young Player of the Tournament 
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Jorginho has set a new record for the most interceptions made at a single European Championship tournament (25) since Opta data has been collected (1980).
One more than Marcel Desailly at Euro 1996. 
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still at 0 
3 clean sheets, 9 saves
Semi-finals penalty shoot-out hero
Final penalty shoot-out hero