They did so regardless of which team they supported on a club level, setting aside meaningless rivalries. Since then, much has changed. The country itself, after the Olympic Games of the same year, began to slowly walk down paths of crisis and introspection. Football, too, gradually revealed the corruption of the economic foundation on which it is conducted. At the end of the day, however, it is just a game.

Can we today characterize that success as the great lost opportunity of our football?

On the occasion of the historic completion of twenty years since Euro 2004, sports journalists and not only, writers, and ordinary friends of the word outline that success. Twenty different people and professionals share their views and stories about that sports triumph, which seems and is distant but in the end, unites us all.