You can imagine, dear reader, that UEFA Euro 2024 stadiums have been turned into swimming pools
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You can imagine, dear reader, that UEFA Euro 2024 stadiums have been turned into swimming pools

2024-08-19Last Updated: 2024-06-21
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You Can Imagine, Dear Reader, That Uefa Euro 2024 Stadiums Have Been Turned Into Swimming Pools

Dear reader, you can imagine that the UEFA Euro 2024 stadiums have been transformed into swimming pools, with fountains falling from their seats and pouring their water in an ancient way, as if it were the first rainy season in Germany.

No one would disagree that the current Euro Championship is a success on various footballing, popular and artistic levels and offers competitive matches and plenty of goalscoring, but on an organizational level it has been marred by a lot of rubbish.

These wastes turned into problems, the problems became organizational failures, and the organizational failures became chaos – on the ground – which translated into fights, riots inside and outside the stadiums and on the streets miles away. Host the matches.

International agencies and specialized websites described the organization as a “disaster” and questioned the “German efficiency” and “correct machines” who did not know how to organize the competition that they supposedly knew about organizing this season, but years ago. They are available at different levels.

The first was during a game between Serbia and England, and it reached the stage where fans walked out of the “Schalke” stadium in Gelsenkirchen, where tens of thousands of fans waited for hours to receive trains. More than 45 thousand people once every 20 minutes.

The fans waited until the evening for the train cars to transport them from the crowded station near the “Arena of Schalke” stadium.

A video clip posted on social media shows trains and stations being overcrowded with fans, with only one footbridge connecting the stadium to the railway station causing an accident.

A fan on the “X” platform – at the time – “The game ended before 11 o’clock, it took 3 hours to travel by tram and train to Dusseldorf, which is incredibly bad.”

Most of the fans – who took to social media to express their anger and displeasure – were left stranded for hours as the metro train failed to arrive on time and accommodate the large number of fans.

The delays and breakdowns of the transport system were only the tip of the iceberg, then videos of violent fights between fans and the destruction of restaurants and bars went viral, and ribbons were cut by Serbian and English fans.

Then the fever of the riots spread to the match between Turkey and Georgia, as the sparks of the conflict erupted in the streets outside the stadium and continued inside the stadium, and the stand turned into a battlefield. All this happened because the anti-riot forces were unable to resolve the issue and were unable to stop the conflict.

This “infection” did not stop spreading among various fans until the Serbian national team was threatened with expulsion due to Turkish and Albanian chants of “Kill the Serbs”. The fans of these three teams have a different story in each match of one of these teams. The area around the stadiums and the streets around them turn into battlegrounds and violence erupts every now and then.

Former Egyptian football star Mohamed Otrika said: “Euro 2024 was technically successful, but it failed at the organizational level, leading to strong and continuous criticism of the Qatar World Cup. “Trouble, chaos and water falling off the seat.”

The biggest “scandal” was in Dortmund’s “Signal Iduna Park” stadium, which hosts matches in all competitions up to the semi-finals, but the condition of the stadium was terrible. A video circulating on social media showed the scale of the problem.

Inside the stadium, fountains over one side of the stadium rain down on the fans’ heads and workers are busy pouring water off the pitch using indoor “bathtubs” that look like a drainage system. They didn’t work in the stadium, they didn’t stand, they weren’t prepared or they couldn’t handle this much rain.

Even in and around the stadium there were pools of water and fans had difficulty walking in or out of it.

Days have passed since the end of the competition and more than two weeks later, are the problems fixed and the crises resolved or are they increasing? Euro 2024 will be titled “Best Technical and Worst Organizational”.

2024-08-19Last Updated: 2024-06-21
1,865 4 minutes read

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