Starting with the world’s most popular sports, soccer/futbol, we’re going to have an International Sports Pick of the Week entry.

Euro 2008 is a sixteen team tournament which is set to take place in Austria & Switzerland from June 7-29, 2008.  The two host countries are guarenteed spots in the contest, while all other teams have been tenaciously competing in qualifying matching since August 2006.   With the start of another round of qualifying matches beginning today, we thought there was no better time to start this segment.

This tournament carries with it an enormous sense of national pride.  The winner will represent the EU at the 2009 FIFA Federations Cup, the prelude to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.If you’d like to catch the action state side, you better have satellite TV (and even if you do, I still wish you luck).

Greece, the current European champs, and France, 2006 World Cup finalists, are considered two of the heavy favorites.

Oh, and by the way, we could really use a soccer expert on staff!