My Heart and my Mind: Euro 2016 Predictions

Paulo Senra
1 min readJun 10, 2016

It’s here! It’s here! Euro 2016 starts today.

Here are my predictions — from my heart and my mind — on how the next four weeks will play out.

MY MIND

Champs: Belgium

Final Four: Belgium, Spain, France, Germany

Biggest Flop: Italy (I will likely be wrong on this, but I just don’t see where the magic comes from on this team)

Biggest Surprise: Iceland (because why not?)

MY HEART

Champs: Portugal (Ronaldo finally delivers that international silverware for his country)

Final Four: Portugal, Italy (Would love to see an Italy/Portugal semi) Germany, Spain (love the style of these two teams and want to see them fight it out til the end)

Biggest Flop: France (Will be first home team not to make it into the semis)

Biggest Surprise: Austria (who will likely make a deep run into the Quarter-Finals… knocking out some giants along the way)

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Paulo Senra
Paulo Senra

Written by Paulo Senra

Storyteller. Traditional sports/esports PR & Content pro. Published in The Daily Dot, The Advocate, The Globe & Mail, Toronto Star and ESPN’s Grantland.

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