Switzerland comes in last place

Artificial intelligence wants to calculate the most beautiful football players in this year's European Championship. The Swiss team finished in last place, and the most beautiful kicker comes from Türkiye.

The European Championship in Germany is all about quick counterattacks, stable defensive lines and successful goal scoring – and sometimes it's also about more attractive football. It's not about the pretty national players and their looks, right?

While watching football together in front of the TV, seemingly banal things are often discussed. For example, “It's beautiful” or “How does it look?”, people say, as the eleven players from the starting lineup play the national anthem at the start and are shown in close-up by cameras.

No, Jan, unfortunately you didn't end up in the top ten.Image: Cornerstone

As we all know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and therefore difficult to categorize objectively. But the British newspaper “The Sun” is now publishing a report on an assessment conducted by artificial intelligence experts from the English online ticket selling company Ticketgum, which uses special software to examine the “facial attractiveness” of players at the European Championship 2024 and examines all 24 teams. 26 professionals have analyzed them. . In total, 624 men were subjected to the facial analysis programme.

Serbia is the most beautiful team in the European Championship

The result was very exciting for the Swiss national team, as Murat Yakin's team finished last out of 24 teams in the European Championship. Behind Germany and France. Granit Xhaka and Co. Who collected only 68.13 out of 100 “beauty points”. According to Amnesty International, the best team is the Serbs, ahead of Italy and Turkey.

There is also an individual rating: Turkish right-back Mert Muldur is considered the most beautiful player in the tournament. Behind them, Pole Taras Romanchuk and Spanish midfielder Fabian Ruiz complete the podium.

According to Amnesty International, Mert Muldor is the most beautiful player in the European Championship.Image: www.imago-images.de

The other positions are followed by Serbian Strahinja Pavlovic, and in fifth place comes Austrian Flavius ​​Daniluk, then Ukrainian Oleksandr Tymchik, Dutchman Memphis Depay and two Italians: in eighth place is Nicolo Fagioli, one difference behind striker Gianluca Scamaca. Tenth place goes to young German star Florian Wirtz.

Even after this AI list, one thing remains clear: Objective standards for evaluating beauty will ultimately not suit everyone's tastes — and scoring sometimes requires the right nose, but perhaps not the prettiest set of eyelashes. (t online/before)

Georgia earned its first European Championship point in the second round of Group F. In Hamburg, coach Willy Sagnol's team achieved a wonderful draw against the Czech Republic, 1-1.

In a fast-paced match, it was clear that the Czechs were closer to victory. In the end, it was 26:6 shots on target for the team that reached the final of the 1996 European Championship. In the end, after a counterattack in stoppage time, the Georgians almost celebrated. However, Saba Lubjanidze squandered the golden opportunity miserably.