The tournament for the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, or Euro 2008 for short, commenced this weekend, and will carry through to June 29. Fans of the games will of course been keeping a close eye on their television sets, whether watching competing teams square off in Austria or Switzerland, the two host countries this year.

Still, if you’re planning to undertake an in-person tour of the multinational event, Google can help you find your way around the highlight Swiss cities of Basel, Bern, Geneve, and Zurich and the Austrian cities of Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Salzburg, and Wien (Vienna) with a custom map created with help of transit authorities SBB and VBZ of Switzerland and OBB of Austria. This data will certainly come as a convenience for those who wish to watch the players work the three-week bracket while standing (and jumping and screaming) tens or hundreds of feet away.

The visual aids don’t stop there, though. Match data - statistics as well as the game schedule - for each stadium is presented in the mashup. Google has also added representations of “all eight stadiums hosting the games to the ‘3D Buildings’ layer” of its Earth utility.

Of course, you could always go to the official Euro 2008 website to get match info as it comes in, but Google’s all-in-one setup is bound to get a good number of hits, too. And if those options weren’t enough, Netvibes this week announced the debut of a widget titled ‘Euro2008’ to get a glimpse of the match calendar, national team standings, and news. So whether you want to follow the wins and losses on a start page, an interactive map, or a virtual globe, you can.

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