Euros

Thomas Muller is one of the most dangerous attacking players in the world. He's deceptive on the ball, tricky in the box and lethal on goal.

Which sounds weird, because Thomas Muller is the crazy uncle of international soccer. Thomas Muller is international soccer's crazy uncle because he behaves exactly like your crazy uncle.

Your crazy uncle isn't crazy, per se, but he's definitely a little . . . touched. He "marches to the beat of his own drummer", or whatever.

Andre-Pierre Gignac burst onto footballing radars everywhere by finishing the 2008-09 French Ligue 1 season as the top goalscorer. At the time, the young Frenchman was reportedly drawing interest from clubs like Arsenal, Manchester United and Juventus.

Fast forward seven years and the now 30-year-old Gignac plays his club football with Tigres in Monterrey, Mexico. Is this a story of lost talent, a young player who achieved too much, too fast? Hardly. 

Portugal were always favorites to overcome Wales and advance to the Euro 2016 final, but, for 50 minutes in Lyon, Wales appeared ready to upset the footballing hierarchy once more. It took an inspirational header from Cristiano Ronaldo and a fortunate goal from Nani for Portugal to overcome Wales 2-0 in their Euro 2016 semifinal.

Cristiano Ronaldo is very good at sports, and, more specifically, very VERY good at soccer. Mostly.

Ronaldo has not had the best Euro 2016 so far, but his Portugal side is still in the semifinals so there's time for him to turn things around. One great way to do that would be to let someone else take free kicks.

"But Ronaldo is good at free kicks," you say. Not right now, he isn't.

Thousands of fans showed up to show to see the national team of Iceland return home to Reykjavik, and to show their appreciation.

If there was one story that everyone got behind at this year's European Championships, it was this unbelievable tale of a small island nation of 325,000 people that threatened to upset everybody. 

Iceland's story proved that hard work and an emphasis on grassroots-development can be successful, no matter how limited the resources nor how small the talent pool.

Italian penalty specialist Simone Zaza has issued a public apology through his Instagram account after his ridiculous penalty kick sailed over the bar against Germany.

Zaza, who was introduced in the 120th minute for Giorgio Chiellini, has become a viral sensation for his scampering approach to a spot-kick. It was an unorthodox technique that was ultimately humiliating from start to finish.

However, none of that is funny anymore.

Cristiano Ronaldo has a chance to finally do it. Finally, Ronaldo has a chance to step out of Lionel Messi’s shadow and become the greatest player of his generation, and by greatest player of course that really means better than Messi. Sounds simple enough. All Ronaldo has to do is win something that has alluded both he and Messi for their entire careers up to now. 

Wales right back Chris Gunter can take comfort in the fact that he is the undisputed favorite child in his family.

We know this because the Gunter parents had to choose between attending Chris's soccer game against Portugal on Wednesday in France or his brother Marc's wedding on Thursday in Mexico. This is not a parenting situation we would want to be in, although there are worse decisions than "go on vacation in France or go on vacation in Mexico." They picked the soccer game.