Euro 2024 battle between Germany and Turkey causes anxious waiting

The awarding of a European or World Cup football championship always causes controversy in the media. Most recently, there have been heated discussions about the awarding of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Many football fans still don't understand how it can be possible to hold a World Cup in winter during the Advent season. Discussions about the award to Qatar having been bought or at least the money of the rich desert state having played an important role still exist. The situation is different with the award of the European Football Championship. The interest is less in the capital than the continuing political dynamite between Turkey and Germany. Source: https://www.sportwette.net/.

Sport as a political issue between Germany and Turkey Sport is once again becoming a political issue. According to the explosive photos of the German national players Mesut Ozil and Ilkay Gundogan with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, this is not what one would wish for. The consequences from these photos are known and have caused the resignation of Ozil as a national player. Which consequences could arise from the assignment of the Euros to Turkey and which for Germany? At the moment both countries are fighting for the vote, and the situation must at least be described as tense. For both countries, the organisation of the 2022 European Championship would be very important. The German Football Association is nervous about the awarding of the contract. After the organisation of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, 16 years later they would like to bring the grandiose atmosphere of football back into their own country.

Another disaster after the World Cup in the preliminary round for Germany? For Germany, positive headlines for football and the DFB would be desirable. After the premature World Cup from still in the preliminary round it would be a real disaster to lose the European Championship award to Turkey. One would like to prevent this disgrace, obviously. In the run-up to the award there were already differences between DFB President Reinhard Grindel and FIFA boss Gianni Infantino. The background was a controversial appearance of Infantino in Turkey last year, during which he praised the competitors of Germany in the Euros awarding extraordinary. Grindel then wrote a letter to Infantino asking him to be neutral. These differences have now been officially resolved. After a closer look, however, it shows how long this competition for the European Championship in 2024 has been going on. There isn't much time now - the decision is about to be made and both sides will pull out all the stops again.

Germany enters the home straight with a charm offensive The advertising drum was therefore properly used in the last weeks before the official awarding of the contract on September 27. In order to convince the local officials entitled to vote in Nyon, Switzerland, a charm offensive is obviously being launched. The German delegation consists of Jogi Low, Oliver Bierhoff and the DFB president Reinhard Grindel and with female support, one enters the home straight. It will be the German referee Bibiana Steinhaus and the German national player Celia Sasic who will accompany the delegation. It doesn't seem to be arbitrary that the national player Sasic belongs to this team, as she is predestined as DFB integration ambassador and exemplary for this sport.

European Ambassador Philipp Lahm sometimes caused criticism Philip Lahm is Euros ambassador for Germany, and for many months has been tireless in his efforts to advertise for the award to Germany. He thus celebrated a comeback in his sporting career after his official retirement from football in 2017. For many months he was in action as an ambassador for the European Championship until he was last criticised at the "International Football Summit". During this event, Lahm decided not to allow any press questions and to prohibit all video and audio recordings of his performance. This became public at least according to a reporter of the Pay TV channel Sky. The task of an ambassador should be to use all media and possibilities to announce the central message. From his perspective, it must be quite clear that Germany is the ideal location for the European Football Championship. It would have been a good opportunity to talk about the current perspective in Turkey's competition for the European Championship award and to publish this via media representatives. Why he decided against it is not understandable, especially since he would also become head of organisation after the award of the European Championships to Germany. Despite all the criticism, respect for Philipp Lahm as an athlete remains the best thing in the world.