The voltage increases!

No, don't worry, there is no rescheduling of the Eurovision Song Contest because of a doping case with the winner Italy.

No, the EM is in the house.

So not in one house in Europe, but in many houses.

After one and a half years of Corona, it is the grotesque fulfillment of a Platiniian dream: a pan-European European Championship, home advantage everywhere, and moreover, as Platini said in Kiev in 2012, “every country only has to build a stadium and an airport”.

After all, there was no debate about home ownership, new football temples with 100,000 theater chairs might be a bit too much of a good thing for UEFA in this situation.

Campo feeling

However, it was built in Herzogenaurach.

The visionaries around Bierhoff continue to conjure up the Campo feeling that brought the team to the World Cup title in 2014 through a long tournament.

Player flat shares and "marketplace" included.

But France is the favorite, most can agree on that, and you don't want to be a bookmaker.

Too many factors are involved.

The Spaniards train in parallel with a B-Elf, due to possible quarantines.

The English have even more home advantage than the other ten host countries, although they are now allowed to leave the island again.

Either way, the sporting value of the EM is debatable.

Late realization

But wasn't that exactly what we've been conjuring up over the years? Didn't we want coincidence, luck and underdogs anymore? Well, the victory in Greece under King Otto was dispensable for aesthetic reasons. But it's these stories that stay. Video evidence, Champions League reforms and the late realization that football has no laws of its own (relating to sports science or the market): All of this, however, cements the existing conditions and ensures that such stories are less common. Greetings to Munich.

This pandemic is said to be a time of uncertainty. Work, love, life, everything is on the brink. In reality we have already wrapped up in new routines, like sheepskin from the Demeter farm. The EM can be the departure into the unknown, pars pro toto for a life "after" Corona. How is a 7: 1 against Latvia supposed to give conclusions about the course of the German tournament? In fact: not at all. We know we don't know, and that's what makes life and football so interesting in the first place.