As Italy prepare to face Spain on Wednesday evening, Azzurri hitman Luca Toni sets his sights on glory at this summer’s European Championships.

Roberto Donadoni’s men have the weight of expectations on their shoulders as they look to add the European title to World Cup 2006 and become the greatest Italian side of all-time.

However, the draw wasn’t kind to the Azzurri and they have to negotiate France, Romania and Holland in their Group.

“It’s natural that we are amongst the favourites,” Toni explained. “This is a special season for me and one of my objectives is Euro 2008.

“But it will be a very difficult Group – for me it is the “Group of Death” – and then we will probably have to take on Spain. We will go to the European Championships with the same target as usual – to win. We are world champions and that gives us an even greater obligation to go for victory.”

As for the former Fiorentina man’s personal targets, he remains characteristically modest.

“I just want to be part of the squad and to do that I want to carry on playing well at Bayern Munich,” Toni insisted.

“I don’t consider myself a world star and perhaps I arrived late in the world of calcio, but I have two trophies that can’t be attributed to fortune – the Golden Boot in 2006 with 31 Serie A goals and the World Cup where I played and scored.”

Toni concluded by discussing the friendly rivalry with Bayern teammates Willy Sagnol and Franck Ribery, who will be representing France in Austria and Switzerland.

“Willy joked about how lucky we were in the World Cup Final, but nothing can change the fact that we won the trophy,” he said.

“Whether they like it or not, we are the champions of the world.”