Named the country’s “fighting” for the reception of Euro-2024

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Названы страны, "сражающиеся" за прием Евро-2024For the right to host Euro 2024 fight Germany and Turkey.

The host country of the championship on football will be called the UEFA Executive Committee on 27 September.

The country, which will have the honor to host the European championship on football in 2024, will be named on Thursday, September 27, at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Union of European football associations (UEFA) headquarters in Nyon. Have to choose between Germany and Turkey. Previously, both countries have filed claims with the preliminary assessment reports and concepts of carrying out the championship of the continent. DW analysed the selection criteria of UEFA and has delivered its verdict.

Experience in organizing major football tournaments

Who has more experience in organizing major football tournaments – from Germany or from Turkey? The answer to this question is obvious, of course, from Germany. The world cups in 1974 and 2006, the European championship in 1988 and world Championships in women’s soccer in 2011 and the lack of experience in holding such competitions, the Germans can not complain. Many do call it the world champion in the sport competitions of the highest rank. Turkey has much less experience in the asset – only world football championship among youth teams in 2013.

The score 1:0 in favor of Germany.

Stadiums

Euro 2024, both countries plan to spend on the ten stadiums. The Commission of UEFA has confirmed the perfect state of all ten German stadiums in Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Munich and Dusseldorf. All of these reasons the arena is also regularly used for football matches of the highest level. Over the last 20 years in Germany, four times hosted the finals of the UEFA Champions League. No other country in the world accepts the matches of this prestigious tournament more than Germany.

As for Turkish stadiums, the UEFA criteria is consistent with only seven of the ten: in Bursa, eskişehir, Gaziantep, Izmit, Konya, Trabzon, and one of the two arenas in Istanbul. Olympic Ataturk stadium in Istanbul and the stadium in Ankara are subject to reconstruction. The arena in Antalya also need to be upgraded. The Commission, UEFA is concerned that Turkey cannot cope with the necessary for the reconstruction of the stadium in Istanbul in the scope of work before the start of EURO 2024.

In addition, in comparison with the Turkish German arenas stadiums calculated on a greater number of audience and therefore have a higher potential from the point of view of income. Seven out of ten of the announced stadiums in Turkey contain less fans than the smallest of dozens of German stadiums in Duesseldorf, designed for 46 264 people.

The score 2:0 in favor of Germany.

The love of football

In both countries football is the main sport. Turkey is famous for its emotional fans, by definition, UEFA, the Turks is a “passionate football nation.” The participation of Turkey in the fight for the right to host Euro 2024 and actively supports the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

But host Euro 2024 in Germany would have caused a real football euphoria among the Germans – this is corroborated by the 2006 world Cup, with the brilliance of the past in Germany and dubbed the “summer tales”.

As evidenced by the published German football Association (NSF) poll results of sociological Institute FORSA, 74 percent of Germans are in favor of holding the European championship on football in Germany, among football fans, this figure is 89 per cent.

The score remained 2:0 in favor of Germany

Infrastructure

When assessing this criterion, a clear advantage also from Germany. The country is located in the heart of Europe, so the road to Germany will cost fans from other European countries is much cheaper than Turkey, located in the South-East of the continent. The distance between the German stadiums are much smaller than that between the stadiums in Turkey. In addition, before any of the arenas in Germany can be reached not only by car but also by train.

The Turkish city of Trabzon, which lies on the black sea coast in the North-East of the country, no railway communication with other regions. As Antalya. In the Turkish application States that until 2024 the government invested 17 billion euros in the expansion of road and rail networks.

On the background of the economic crisis in the country and devaluation of the Turkish Lira UEFA skeptical about this statement. “Recent economic events in the country can have a negative impact on public investments,” the report says UEFA.

Account 3:0 in favor of Germany.

Finance

The Union of European football associations, of course, interested in the European championship on football has brought him the maximum benefit. For UEFA bone in the throat is the solution to “the German authorities to cancel the tax exemption”, in connection with which any profit will be taxed. Moreover, if the European championship will be held in Germany, UEFA will also have to pay for the hire of stadiums.

In Turkey, similar problems arise. However UEFA don’t seem to have much faith in financial guarantees Ankara. In the report of the Commission of UEFA says that tax breaks promised by the government of Erdogan, “not quite” match “the currently effective laws and the requirements of international law”. And yet…

3:1 in favor of Germany.

Human rights

Despite accusations of racism in the German football Union side who left the national team of Germany midfielder Mesut Ozil (Mesut Özil) and broke out in connection with this debate, claims to Turkey is more serious. The situation with observance of human rights in the country under President Erdogan, to put it mildly, is problematic: the freedom of the press and of expression is limited, thousands of opposition members are in jail without a court order.

Even UEFA is usually quite discreet in their statements, clearly indicates in the report: “Lack of action plan for human rights is a cause for concern.” At the same time from the German football Association UEFA demanded to do everything possible to prevent possible human rights violations during the world Cup.

Final score 4:1 in favor of Germany.

But whether the opinion of the Executive Committee with this assessment?

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