Was Portugal really the best- performing team at Euro 2. No- one can deny Portugal their moment of Euro 2. France in Sunday’s final, all the more impressive given it was without their star player, Cristiano Ronaldo. But we wanted to see, if the playing field was levelled off, whether Portugal would still be the best- performing side? It might also help answer the following questions: Did the costliest squads triumph over those composed of relative unknowns? Star Wars Rebels - Strike Missions. Help the rebels strike back against Imperial forces. Now featuring new characters and a new chapter! If you previously chose a side, your Google apps will be returned to their regular state as of February 1, 2016. Scroll down for more Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Th is is your all inclusive source for Star Wars actor appearances. From the largest con to the smallest book signing, we will bring them to you. 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Euro 2016: Portugal, Poland and Wales through to quarter-finals. IGN is the Star Wars Battlefront (PS4) resource with reviews, wikis, videos, trailers, screenshots, cheats, walkthroughs, previews, news and release dates. We’ve taken these totals and then factored in each country’s squad value, population and GDP, to compare the relative successes of each team. Who has the best value squad? This infographic plots a team’s performance at Euro 2. Scroll over the graphic to explore the values. Teams towards the top- left corner are the best- value ones, whereas those in the bottom- right quarter, such as Spain and England, are the most overpriced, in terms of their Euro 2. These tables go into more detail, dividing countries’ squad value by the number of points gained, to tell us how . This table reveals the five best- value squads were: Team. Squad value (. Hungary is the surprise package in joining Iceland among the best- value squads. Who made the most of their talent pool? Much has been made of Iceland, population 3. England, which has around 5. So we decided to look at each country’s population, comparing it with how many points each one picked up. Scroll over the infographic, below, to explore the values. These tables go into more depth, showing the best and worst performers in terms of a country’s population. They show how many inhabitants each country needed per point won at Euro 2. Russia made the worst use of its talent pool, needing 1. Iceland required around 4. Team. Population (millions)Points. Population (millions)per point. Iceland. 0. 3. 80. Wales. 3. 1. 12. 0. N Ireland. 1. 8. 30. Croatia. 4. 2. 70. Portugal. 10. 4. 15. Team. Population (millions)Points. Population (millions)per point. Russia. 14. 2. 5. Ukraine. 44. 3. 0- Turkey. Romania. 19. 9. 11. England. 54. 1. 51. Click here for the full table. Verdict Russia is evidence population size is no guarantee of success, while Portugal’s win shows relatively small countries can prevail. If we classify a small country as one with fewer than 1. Portugal, Iceland, Wales, Croatia and Belgium) got more than the average points tally of six, than larger countries (France, Germany, Italy and Poland). Did richer countries outperform poorer ones? This infographic looks at a country’s GDP per capita, against points won at Euro 2. Scroll over to explore the data further. Looking at GDP in more depth, these tables show the best and worst when it comes to the amount of GDP needed for each point gained at Euro 2. The top five best teams were: Team. GDP per capita (. Portugal and Wales, meanwhile, outshone their richer European neighbours. So who was Euro 2. Wales, on the account they were the only team to appear in the best five of each of our categories. Portugal were the overall winners and they, like Iceland, made the best five in two out of three of the areas we looked at. England and Russia were the common thread in all our worst of tables, meaning they share the wooden spoon. Limitations. There are some obvious limitations to this study. First, the transfer values might not accurately reflect a squad’s value, especially if there is a talented young player who has not yet been transfered. Secondly while it is logical to consider a country with a high GDP is more likely to have the resources to pour into their footballers’ development, this may not be the case in practice.
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