Romanian football legend Gheorghe Hagi is of the opinion that Spain have the ability to win the tournament, which would be their third major success in succession. It is a feat that has been achieved before, but Spain have come into the tournament after having lost the services of both David Villa and Carles Puyol – two crucial players for the national team.

Despite this, Gheorghe Hagi believes that it will take an extraordinary effort from the other teams to prevent pain from winning the tournament. He has also said that Germany are a contender for the title alongside Spain due to the fact that they have very strong squad, according to the Liverpool news website.

Netherlands have also been spoken of as one of the favourites for the competition, but there have also been suggestions that the team is slightly old for winning the tournament. Gheorghe Hagi, though, thinks that it is necessarily not the case, but agrees with the opinion that it will be tough for Netherlands to win the competition. Romania will be facing Netherlands in the qualifiers of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Gheorghe Hagi expects the Romanian national team to put up a strong show against Netherlands in the World Cup qualifiers.

“My favorite team is Spain. With Fernando Torres they will be strong. After me, the countries that have the best chance to reach the finals are Spain, Netherlands and Germany. I think Spain and Germany will play the final competition taking place in Poland and Ukraine. Let’s preliminary matches will be held in September. Netherlands, Holland still remain. It is a powerful band, hopefully, will play Romanian national good. Netherlands is not the team we used to good long evolution. The team was strong German team. In addition, the Germans play and Mario Gomez, who is in shape football and mark goals,” said Gheorghe Hagi about the Euro 2012.