The continent's finest sides put on a magnificent display in the UEFA European Futsal Championship, which concluded last night. uefa.com's reporting team in the Porto region have selected 12 players, including at least one from all eight squads, who shone during the intense nine-day event won by Spain.

Alexander Feller (Italy)
Long-standing Azzurri goalkeeper Gianfranco Angelini was absent for personal reasons but his understudy stepped up and kept a finals record three clean sheets with some nerveless displays. He even proved he could score with the last goal of the tournament to pull the final deficit to Spain back to 3-1.

Luis Amado (Spain)
While Feller let in fewer goals, Amado continued to prove his high class, not least by keeping Spain in their semi-final against Portugal before saving from Joel Queirós in the penalty shoot-out and then making a succession of fine stops in the decider against Italy.

Ricardinho (Portugal)
The 22-year-old announced himself as one of the game's brightest new talents when he scored the goal of the tournament to put Portugal 2-0 up against Spain with an audacious overhead kick. The hosts eventually lost but Ricardinho will be involved in many victories to come.

Marko Perić (Serbia)
Ricardinho's rival as young player of the tournament, Perić also looks set to join a leading European club after the finals and was singled out by technical observer Vic Hermans as a truly skilful talent in a tactical event.

Vladislav Shayakhmetov (Russia)
The all-round play of Shayakhmetov was important to Russia, not least his goals in tricky games against Serbia and Ukraine that helped them through to the semi-finals and the winner against Portugal that secured bronze.

Roman Mareš (Czech Republic)
It was a miserable tournament for the Czech Republic but the experienced Mareš, along with younger brother Michal, justified ending their international retirements as they kept their team competitive.

Serhiy Sytin (Ukraine)
Ukraine too disappointed but the skilful Sytin still had his moments as, at 25, he assumed a leadership role in the tournament's youngest squad.

Cirilo (Russia)
The Brazilian-born player made his competitive debut on Matchday 1 against Serbia and scored a hat-trick of stunning goals. That each subsequent opponent based their tactics around shackling Cirilo proves his importance and he finished joint top scorer with Predrag Rajić of Serbia and Spain's Daniel on five.

Fabiano Assad (Italy)
The statistics prove he was the most important defender in the tournament's best backline, at least before the final, and he knew where the target was at the other end with the scorching clincher in the last-four defeat of Russia, a game in which he was superb.

Kike (Spain)
With more than 100 caps to his name and now three European titles, Kike is still one of the most important players in the game. He rallied the holders with calming words when they went two down to Portugal, and it takes something to shine in a team whose outfield players include the likes of Daniel, captain Javi Rodríguez and final star Álvaro.

Florin Matei (Romania)
Romania achieved the best result ever by any team on a UEFA European Futsal Championship finals debut with their 8-4 opening defeat of the Czech Republic and Matei struck a hat-trick aided by captain Gabriel Molomfalean, the duo together scoring a combined total of 17 goals in this competition including qualifying.

Predrag Rajić (Serbia)
The experienced Rajić claimed five goals to finish as joint-top scorer despite his team's group stage exit, playing three games to Cirilo and Daniel's five. His most memorable strike was the last-gasp equaliser against Spain that kept his team in contention for Matchday 3.

Team selected by David Baño, Pavel Gognidze, Nuno Tavares & Paul Saffer

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