UEFA was forced to correct an embarrassing mistake in the day before yesterday after it was announced that the European Cup competition that was postponed from the summer of this year to 2021, due to the outbreak of the new Corona virus epidemic, will still retain its former name and slogan «Euro 2020» .
The federation said in a previous tweet on its account on the social networking site «Twitter»: «Although it will take place from June 11 to July 11, 2021, it will still be known as (Euro 2020). And this tweet raised a great controversy between the various media and in the European football community during the past hours, especially since it seemed to many illogical for a previous year to remain linked to a trophy held in the following year.
But after massive questions and criticisms, and within hours of that tweet, the European Union returned to apologize in the same way, saying, “With an apology for the previous mistake, but to be clear, no decision has been made yet regarding the name of the re-arranged European Cup in 2021. Tweet "The previous one was sent in error."
But the European Union clearly stated that the next cup, which will be held exceptionally next year instead of this year due to the spread of the new Corona virus «Coved 19», has not reached consensus on its official name yet, do you keep the old name, or it is called «Euro 2021».
It is mentioned that the European Union wanted its decision to postpone the competition until next year, to make way for the local pending tournaments for the same reason to complete, if conditions allowed.
UEFA said that the postponement "will help all local competitions that are currently suspended until the end of the emergency resulting from the fear of (Covid-19)," where he pledged to end the seasons by June 30.
The announcement of the continental union, which is based in the Swiss city of Neon, came after a meeting via video calling technology in which representatives of the various stakeholders of the game (clubs, national championships, local federations and players) participated as Europe struggled to deal with this health crisis.
24 teams participate in the European Cup, and the qualifiers have so far settled the identity of 20 of them, while the identity of the rest was scheduled to be decided in a continental attachment in late March, but «UEFA» confirmed that the attachment was also postponed, and set him the international stopping period next June as a date Preliminary, stressing at the same time that this "linked to a reassessment of the situation."
The European Union surprised everyone with a tweet saying that the tournament, held in 2021, will retain its current name «Euro 2020».