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Czech manager Karel Bruckner on Wednesday sprung two surprises as he named his 23-strong squad to take part in June's Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. One notable omission to the Czech squad is former captain and Juventus midfield star Pavel Nedved, whose comeback for the tournament had been the subject of speculation.

Austria and Switzerland are ready to host the European football championship on June 7-29, having completed their preparations on schedule, one month before the kick-off. “The host cities have never been ready so early,” said the president of the Euro 2008 organising committee, Martin Kallen, who already led the committee that organised the European championship in Portugal in 2004.

With Cold War logic, General Franco had refused to let Spain play the USSR in 1960. Four years later he gloated when hosts Spain beat the Societs in the final.

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Swiss national football coach Jakob “Kobi” Kuhn said he was taking a gamble by including defender Patrick Muller in his initial Euro 2008 squad released on Tuesday. The Lyon back is a key member of the Euro 2008 co-hosts’ defence but he approaches next month’s finals after a season blighted by a knee injury.

AC Milan midfielder Clarence Seedorf will not be making an appearance for his national team at the upcoming European Championships. Seedorf, who represented the Dutch team 87 times, has been having difficulties with current manager Marco van Basten in recent years.

National icon and goal scoring legend, Hakan Sukur, has been left out of Fatih Terim’s initial 26-man squad for this summer’s European Championships. Galatasaray’s Sukur, now 36, made eight appearances in qualifying stages for Turkey, but was deemed surplus to requirements by Terim for the tournament in Austria and Switzerland.

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