P. Köster: Cabin Sermon
Why the football championship in 2021 will not take place as planned
“Each host must guarantee that Fans will be in the stadium,” said Uefa President Aleksander Ceferin
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24 teams will travel in June during the Corona pandemic across Europe? Mind games is a thing of the past? The Uefa President Ceferin claims and proves that he lives in a bizarre parallel world, says Stern voice Philipp Köster.
Aleksander Ceferin was taken of himself: “It was important that the governing body of European football, who led the process and the biggest victim.” So pathetic, the President of Uefa founded in March of 2020, the postponement of the European championship and suggested, of course, that the officials had decided, after considerable pressure from the policy and the national associations to the provisional refusal.
Now, a year later, we repeated this bizarre spectacle. Once again, the Uefa hawed around and tactics, and saves himself with meaningless press releases through the weeks, instead of saying clearly that the tournament will not take place as planned. The concept of a European championship in twelve countries in Europe and Asia, across the continent of traveller, national teams, and followers to normal times questionable in pandemic times, the implementation is completely absurd. Many employees are aware of in the planning of the Uefa staff and respond tormented when they are asked about the apparent discrepancy between the Plan and reality.
Drifted into a parallel universe
Alone, what should you do if your top Boss is apparently drifted into a parallel universe, where the pandemic, their consequences, and the social responsibility of the football games only annoying supporting roles. “We have prepared several scenarios. But the Option of spirit, playing games, is cheerfully from the table,” said Ceferin and pushed the responsibility elegantly over to the host cities: “in Each host must guarantee that Fans will be in the stadium.”
A EM so serious in front of people? In Munich, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Glasgow and Rome? With hundreds of thousands of Fans who have bought a long time ago, your Tickets and your team want to follow through the tournament and through the continent? This is a completely unrealistic scenario, because large parts of Europe will have to overcome at the beginning of June, the pandemic for a long time. Travel restrictions and strict quarantine regulations will be part of everyday life, the authorities will put the football tourism narrow limits, it may completely prohibit it.
The Uefa President Ceferin knows, of course, everything in his public pronouncements, however, he ignored freehand all of these warning signs and gloomy forecasts. What has to do with the love of money. Because early modification of the tournament would bring the Association into a legal and financial difficulties. Would have to reimburse the Uefa then the ticket prices return? The venues compensation type? Parts of the TV money do without? A tricky Situation that would have to ask Uefa to play instead of blatantly on time.
Uefa is national associations hang in the air
Thus, the Association is not only a trailer, the media and the Public, but also the national team hanging in the air. “Uefa is planning to continue with twelve locations. Other news, I have not,” was the DFB Director Oliver Bierhoff to the Protocol, the other national associations in the know. A lack of knowledge, and possibly even to eight weeks prior to the tournament last may, when the Uefa so herumeiert and until the Association of the Congress on 20. April to make a decision through struggles.
Plans are already Alternative. A great variant with a ten cities in ten countries, then, for example, but without Baku. Then a smaller version with five cities in five countries or for a more manageable Version with several cities in two to three countries. And finally, after the model of the final tournament of the Champions League, a city or a Region with multiple stages. This could be, for example, London, with its many arenas, and provided that the country is moving forward with his vaccinations, possibly even in front of an audience.
Of all the Uefa wants to know nothing. She plays instead, and so, once again, the impression of an elite parallel society that is already created in the past months, bizarre Events, such as Champions League games between Liverpool and Leipzig in Budapest, but also through the ignorance of many professional teams for existing spacing rules. To counter this impression, would be an ambitious goal. If you are hoping now, however, it would be a bandage is a transparent decision making through the rings, disappointed. We are not, in reality, with a-century pandemic, the social actors demands a lot of responsibility, but in the European professional football.
