A veteran of both the 2002 and 2006 World Cup campaigns, yet remarkably this will be Neuville's first shot at winning the European Championship.
Now 35, the hard-working frontman missed both the 2000 and 2004 competitions but finally gets a chance this time around despite having dropped into Bundesliga 2 with Borussia Monchengladbach, though he has helped them win promotion back to the top flight this time around.
Never the most prolific of strikers but he makes up for that with a prodigious workrate, fine vision and tactical awareness accrued in an international career that has lasted just four months short of a decade.
Born in Switzerland to a German father and Italian mother, Neuville lists Servette, Tenerife, Hansa Rostock and Bayer Leverkusen among his former clubs, joining his current employers in the summer of 2004.
His three appearances in qualifying - just one start and two brief chances off the substitutes' bench - tell the story of the tail end of his international career, but he retains the priceless knack of netting goals on big occasions just as he did in both of his World Cup campaigns.
















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