From the public at all costs.

UEFA announced on Wednesday March 17 that it would unveil its final plan to organize Euro-2021 football by the end of April.

The authority excludes the matches taking place without an audience and therefore does not rule out the idea of ​​moving certain matches depending on the health situation to avoid closed doors.

"If a city came to propose a scenario behind closed doors", the meetings which were to be held there "could" be transferred "to other cities which have the capacity to welcome spectators", indicated the European body. to AFP.

"All hosts must guarantee the presence of supporters"

On Sunday, UEFA boss Aleksander Ceferin told Croatian newspaper Sportske Novosti that the Euro matches (11 June-11 July), already postponed for a year due to the pandemic, would "not be disputed in front of empty stands ".

"All the hosts will have to guarantee the presence of the supporters", had insisted the leader, while the authority considered until then four options for each city: full stadium, 50 to 100% of spectators, 20 to 30%, or a huis closed.

While the spread of Covid-19 variants prevents any relaxation of health precautions in Europe, such a requirement could involve a regrouping of the tournament in "ten or eleven countries" rather than twelve, according to the boss of the UEFA.

The European body has given each city until April 7 to "submit their scenario", and intends to decide "at the latest" during its executive committee on April 19, on the eve of its annual congress scheduled in Montreux.

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Already complicated from a logistical point of view, this pan-European Euro has been raising doubts for months due to varying travel restrictions from one country to another, leaving delegations and supporters in the dark.

But this format "is also a chance", because "if we can no longer do anything in a country, there are eleven others in which preparations are already underway", argued at the beginning of March the doctor Daniel Koch, former "Mr. . Covid "from Switzerland who became UEFA's health advisor to AFP.

With AFP

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