{"id":5932,"date":"2026-06-27T18:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5932"},"modified":"2026-06-27T18:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:11:38","slug":"uefa-u19-european-championship-chris-gunter-goes-from-youngster-to-wales-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5932","title":{"rendered":"Uefa U19 European Championship: Chris Gunter goes from youngster to Wales mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brett also recalls a tournament in which Wales beat Slovakia, Russia, Northern Ireland and Belgium in the last eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I remember watching for instance, (Gareth) Bale&#8217;s free-kick, winning against Belgium with Sam Vokes&#8217; header,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All those memories are amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was a cross from Gunter which set up Vokes for the third goal in the famous 3-1 win over Belgium in Lille.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gunter&#8217;s chin-up gesture to fans after the group loss to England, meanwhile, is one of the most iconic Welsh images from that tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gunter, also a member of Wales squads at Euro 2020 and the 2022 World Cup, played in all six games at Euro 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s one of the most successful tournaments we had as a nation and he&#8217;s been in our shoes,&#8221; Dancey said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has been to tournaments. We all want to replicate that and do really well in this one so that we&#8217;ll have a tournament that we can look back on as fondly he does.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gunter&#8217;s young side face a stern challenge in the under-19s finals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nine-time champions Spain are their opponents in the opening game at the Racecourse on Sunday (18:00 BST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Germany and Denmark are the other Group A opponents while Croatia, Serbia, Italy and Ukraine are in Group B.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously it&#8217;s a smaller Euros this time round, only eight teams,&#8221; Brett said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know we&#8217;re going to be playing against the best of the best, but we believe in our abilities as well and we know what we can do to hurt them teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;ll be tough, of course. But we&#8217;ve just got to believe in ourselves and believe in each other and, if we stick together, I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll get what we want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iconic: The Summer that Changed Welsh Football <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/programmes\/m002xb1x\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">is available now on BBC Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett also recalls a tournament in which Wales beat Slovakia, Russia, Northern Ireland and Belgium in the last eight. &#8220;I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}