Independent Learning Log 1 by You Geo Yi

Date: 7 June 2016

Source: http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36140761

What I did:

I was reading, and I saw an article that stated facts that were not well known about the countries participating in the upcoming football tournament called "Euro 2016".

What I learnt:

- Austria had moved up from 105th in the FIFA world rankings to 10th when they were qualifying for the tournament in 2015.

- The Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale has scored 64% of Wales' goals in the qualifying of the tournament.

- Iceland is the country with the smallest population to qualify for the tournament with a population of only 330,000 people.

- Sweden will be reliant on their star player Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the tournament.

- Albania has the least number of shots in the qualifying with only 28 shots in all their matches.

- Germany's Toni Kroos has made 315 passes in the qualifying of the tournament which is more than any other player in the qualifying of the tournament.