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Cristiano Ronaldo lifts the Henri Delaunay Cup as he celebrates with his Portuguese teammates after they won the EURO 2016 final against France at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis on July 10, 2016. Francisco Leong/AFP/Getty Images
France is the narrow betting favorite to win the EURO 2020 soccer tournament that kicks-off Friday in Rome. But a nation’s soccer fortune is not written in the odds, but in the stats—the economic stats.