Euro 2020 canceled: lack creates envy

It is June 12, 2020 and the Euro football should have started today. The pandemic has decided otherwise, it will be in a year. Virginie Phulpin decided to take things on the right side. For her, it will make us want to want football again. 

At the beginning of January, Virginie Phulpin had taken her 2020 agenda and noted the multiple competitions that awaited us this year. June 12, start of the Euro. July 12, the final. OK, fine, then the Olympics. It was automatic, it looked like imposed appointments because they were taken for granted. Of course, this morning there, we would all have been excited to find our Blues in international competition. Our world champions, our finalists of the last edition of the Euro in 2016. In addition from the first round they were going to face Portugal and Germany. Well, we all understood that it would not happen, at least not this year. And finally, Virginie Phulpin finds that the lack that we feel today is perhaps very good news to maintain our passion for supporters or observers of football. Usually, we are drenched in football, matches follow one another from Monday to Sunday, between the championships, the cups, the European cups, the national teams, it's an uninterrupted flow of competitions. We connect when we want to connect, and if we miss a meeting, we are sure to have another the next day. It almost became ordinary. 

Finally, there, precisely, we are no longer sure of anything.

Since March, we realize that no, it is not necessarily acquired, this permanent proposal of football matches. The flow can stop at any time. And when the date is symbolic, like today with what should have been the start of the Euro, our hearts are as empty as the stadiums. And this void, we must use it to become fully aware of the happiness that gives us the start of a match. Virginie Phulpin is sure that we will benefit more from the Euro next year because we will give it another value. She feels like it's a bit like a break in a romantic relationship, to better regain momentum afterwards. Well, we agree, the break, it does not work every time in sentimental relationships, but with football, it will work, for sure. Our Blues, next year, we will see them even more beautiful. Pogba will be better with playing time, Griezmann will have acclimatized to FC Barcelona, ​​Mbappé will have gained more maturity, that leaves time for young shoots to hatch, and Didier Deschamps will always be Didier Deschamps. But when Virginie Phulpin takes her 2021 agenda, when she arrives on June 11, she will not write "start of the Euro" with the same detachment. Come on, loudly, and see you in a year!