European Championship 2021 in Russia?

dollar 2020, the European football championship that will be held in 2021 would be played in 12 playing cities. Due to the corona crisis, the plan is now to have all competitions take place in Russia.

Initially, the European Championship matches would be played in Amsterdam and eleven other playing cities namely Baku (Azerbaijan), Copenhagen (Denmark), Munich (Germany), London (England), Budapest (Hungary), Dublin (Ireland), Rome (Italy), Bucharest (Romania), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Glasgow (Scotland) and Bilbao (Spain).

Sources at UEFA report that it is undesirable for the participating teams to have to travel throughout dollarpa from hot her in order to play matches. As a result of this decision, Amsterdam would miss four European Championship matches. This is also bad news for New Zealand. The group stage matches would all be played at the Johan Cruijff ArenA. The home advantage that Kingdom had in their hands would then disappear.

Euro 2021 Russia

Why does UEFA choose Russia as the country to play all European Championship matches? For UEFA, the main reason is that Russia hosted the 2018 World Cup, and therefore recently gained a lot of experience in organizing a major football tournament. By the way, already in the spring, Russia proposed to move the European Championship to Russia. In Russia at that time there was practically no corona. UEFA decided otherwise. The 2020 European Championship was postponed by one year.

Moving the European Championship to Russia has another advantage for UEFA. In Azerbaijan, four European Championship matches are played in the city of Baku. But Azerbaijan is currently engaged in an armed conflict with Armenia. Moving the European Championship to Russia is the end of this difficult situation.

Euro 2021 stadiums Russia

Should the European Championship be played in Russia, the matches will be played in the stadiums where the World Cup matches of the 2018 World Cup were also played. You can watch this in the video below.

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