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The Euro 2016 group stage is done and dusted, providing its fair share of heroes and villains. Players like Gareth Bale, Dimitri Payet and, just recently, Cristiano Ronaldo have enlivened the proceedings, but which five supposed stars have flopped at one of the world’s most prestigious events?

Thanks to the forgiving nature of the expanded tournament format, a few players on this list still have time to make amends for their performances. For a couple of them, it’s off to the beach and an early summer break.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is having a busy summer. He's one of the most sought-after players on the transfer market and just retired from the Sweden National Team after being eliminated in the group stages of Euro 2016. One thing not lost in the commotion of the summer: Zlatan is very rich. To find out just how rich, we examined Zlatan's net worth and salary.

When Cristiano Ronaldo dismissed Iceland as a country with a “small mentality” following their opening 1-1 draw at Euro 2016, he couldn’t have possibly predicted that Portugal would need to look up the final Group F standings to find them.

My favorite moment of Euro 2016 so far was not an amazing goal. It was not an amazing save, or Wales somehow winning their group, or any song sang by the Irish, or Jogi Low being disgusting. At the end of Iceland and Portugal's 1-1 draw, Cristiano Ronaldo stood over a free kick from a little less than 25 yards out, easily within his range. He took the free kick. He smashed it right into the wall. The ball bounced up off the wall and while it was in the air the ref blew the whistle to end the game. Ronaldo turned around in disgust and frustration.

Lionel Messi broke Gabriel Batistuta's Argentina National Team all-time scoring record in the most dazzling way possible: with a scorching free kick. La Pulga now has 55 career goals for La Albiceleste t Batistuta's 54.

The free kick put Argentina up 2-0 on the USA. The game finished 4-0, with Gonzalo Higuain scoring twice and Ezequiel Lavezzi scoring once. The best goal of the night, though, belonged to Messi.

Lionel Messi scored his 55th goal for the Argentina National Team, surpassing Gabriel Batistuta and becoming Argentina's single all-time leading scorer in a 4-0 victory over the USA.

Honestly, it was not as bad of a blowout as we thought is would be.

Ezequiel Lavezzi opened the scoring in the third minute and Messi broke the record with a free kick just before halftime. Gonzalo Higuain scored twice in the second half and that was it.

Messi has grown a beard, and his beard is dope. All beards are sweet, but Messi with a beard is especially sweet.

A beard says something about you. Specifically, it says "I can grow hair on my face." I think growing hair on you face is awesome, but I'm a little bit biased.

Everyone capable of growing a beard should have one. I've always said that. But this isn't about me. It's about Messi and his dope beard.

Messi was the coolest already, but his beard has made him legendary. 

Former Brazilian international Deco is one of the few people on the planet who has had the pleasure of playing on the same team as Lionel Messi and Ronaldinho. So when he says that Ronaldinho had more talent than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, we are forced to take him more seriously than we would almost any other person in the world.

Gareth Bale says he doesn’t listen to Cristiano Ronaldo’s advice on free-kicks, and we gotta say that we fully support this decision.

Bale has scored two free-kicks at Euro 2016 so far, and when asked if his success could be due to advice Ronaldo gave him, Bale had this to say: "No, not really. I do it my way. I like my own style.”