Every football fan has his own favorite, even if sometimes, honestly, hope predominates.

But who knows?!

In any case, France has so far been hotly traded on the market for sports betting on the Internet as the future European football champions in 2021, followed by England and Belgium.

In addition to the bookmakers, some scientists also rely on the reigning world champion according to the rules of mathematics.

Here as there, Germany follows a little further.

Kerstin Papon

Editor in business.

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    After four weeks of European Championship (EM), the actual winner will receive the coveted trophy on July 11th in London's Wembley Stadium. If the predictions are correct, there will be a premiere even for the French, even if they have already won the European Championship twice - in 1984 and 2000. Because the coveted trophy has changed since 2008.

    In order to take account of the size of the competition and to illustrate its importance for European football, the trophy is now made entirely of sterling silver, for example, says Dominik Lochmann, managing director of ESG-Edelmetallservice. The new piece of jewelry consists of 92.5 percent of the pure precious metal - the rest is copper. In 1960, Igor Netto was the captain of the first European champion from what was then the Soviet Union, holding the pot in his hands, which was initially only provided with a thin layer of silver.

    The old trophy had apparently also had its day after 48 years with many boozy and probably turbulent victory celebrations.

    This silver-plated cup was 42.5 centimeters high and weighed about 10 kilograms.

    The European football association UEFA chose the renowned London-based luxury forge Asprey to manufacture the new gem.

    The traditional house had designed the America's Cup in 1848.

    The EM original came from Paris.

    Material value of around 5500 euros

    Today the award, also known as the Coupe Henri Delaunay - named after the “spiritual father” of the European Championship, the former President of the French Football Association - is 60 centimeters high and weighs only around 8 kilograms.

    The new cup is bigger and has said goodbye to its old marble base, says Lochmann.

    What is the award worth?

    If you take the silver price as a basis, then the material value is currently around 5500 euros, calculates Lochmann.

    Asprey is said to have charged 15,400 euros for the production of the new trophy and the material value at that time was around $ 3,000.

    The ideal value for the athletes is likely to have inestimable value, says Lochmann.

    The troy ounce (31.3 grams) of silver currently costs around $ 28.

    A good year ago, right after the outbreak of the corona pandemic, it was at a low of around $ 11.60, which is not even half as much.

    Since the beginning of 2020, the price of silver has risen 57 percent.

    By way of comparison: gold currently stands at $ 1,889 per troy ounce, an increase of 24 percent in this period.

    Big and small fans who would like to own the European Cup themselves are likely to lose out. It is true that precious metal dealers keep offering sports trophies such as Olympic medals for sale, which the former winners often had to part with because of financial difficulties. But such an important team trophy should not be available to buy, at least legally, at most as a smaller replica.

    Even the European champions have to part with the challenge cup, which remains the property of UEFA - unless they win the title several times. If they succeed three times in a row or five times in total, this national team will receive a full-size reproduction of the trophy. Germany and Spain are ahead in this race with three wins each. Incidentally, it was the Spaniards who were the first to receive the 2008 European Championship trophy, which is 2 kilograms lighter.