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The first major European national competition was the brainchild of a Frenchman: Henri Delaunay, the secretary of the French Football Federation. He initially mooted his vision in 1927, but it took the advent of UEFA in 1954 to truly get the project off the ground. By the time the green light was shown at the 1957 UEFA Congress, Delaunay had died two years prior but the trophy would carry his name thereafter.
Hosts France, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the USSR progressed to the final tournament where the Soviets overcame the Czechs 3-0 while France succumbed 5-4 to Yugoslavia - still the competition's highest-scoring match - in the semi-finals. In the final, Milan Galić's effort looked enough to down the USSR but Slava Metreveli's reply forced extra time and Viktor Ponedelnik's header won the trophy. More >>