The Sports Café
Audio 48:30
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By: Annie Gasnier Follow
51 mins
Contents of the Sports Café today: kick-off of the 16th Euro.
- An anniversary competition involving 11 countries, 11 different stadiums, played from Glasgow to Baku, from Rome to Copenhagen.
- A sports party against the backdrop of the health crisis but with the public!
- First tear in the jersey: that of Ukraine which is debated.
Arm wrestling between Moscow and Kiev around a tunic and a controversial slogan!
When geopolitics spills over onto the sports field.
- Rule of hand at the Euro, towards a clarification?
Publicity
- Heavy work to start the England / Croatia tournament in Wembley, and the Netherlands / Ukraine in Amsterdam on Sunday, June 13, 2021. - FIFA is partially returning to its hometown. - The Hôtel de la Marine in Paris will accommodate around one hundred staff from the authority. To bring the parent company of football closer to African confederations? - Sierra Leone / Benin, following the dubious COVID testing scandal. - The Squirrels rejected by the CAS which confirms the postponement of the match initially planned, two and a half months ago, and which returns the sanctions file to CAF. - Match scheduled for Monday, June 14, 2021, in Conakry, Benin needs a point to join the participants in the next CAN. - Your boxes, our boxes to close the show!
Around Annie Gasnier, Xavier Barret, Rémy Ngono and Alejandro Valente. Video production: Léo Bernard / Thibaut Baduel, sound production: Laurent Salerno. Preparation: David Fintzel / Pierre Guérin, Facebook Live broadcast from 4:10 p.m. UT
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