A touch of world Cup-feeling should arise, if the TV channel RTL will report in the coming days, a beach club, Bank of the Rhine, to present the list of the best games of the Corona due to the redesigned final tournament of the Europa League. “Reporting with a summer Feeling and a real show of character is the motto of the football event this summer at RTL,” announces the transmitter from the host country of the competition, which will be held this Wednesday in Cologne, Duisburg, Gelsenkirchen and Düsseldorf. This Wednesday meet in the first knockout round, Inter Milan and FC on each other Getafe in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Thursday, Sevilla FC and AS Roma in Duisburg.
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Because on Friday, the Champions League will continue with the finals in Lisbon in the coming week is anything to go by, football fans look forward to two and a half exciting weeks. With the big club teams, with K. o.-duels, the prospect of extra time and penalty shoot-out. “We are back on the attack,” says Simon Rolfes, sport Director of Bayer Leverkusen. And North Rhine-Westphalia, is mighty proud of the improvised tournament alignment. “The confidence in our Region is a great compliment for the sport, the state of NRW with its outstanding structures from Clubs, stadiums, and reliable authorities,” said Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU).
However, it feels for the people in the participating cities rather strange. “Where are we in the city of Duisburg, a city spokesman Jörn Esser tells us, in principle, a lively atmosphere, together and peacefully celebrating Fans from Rome or Sevilla would want, is for the city of Duisburg, in these days, the work against the spread of the Coronavirus in the heart of”,. The four host cities, largely avoiding the need to use the Event for marketing purposes. Not even in Cologne, where a semi-final and the final on 21. August will take place, activities are planned.
Barred the stadium
The stadium is approximately locked to the games widely, the Teams should have no contact with the outside world. After all, the stadium operators can earn some money. On the amount of use charges paid by the Uefa as the organizer, should be according to the contracts, no information, say, the stadium operator, although on request, but the “West German General newspaper” has learned that FC Schalke gets as the owner of the Gelsenkirchen Arena almost 700,000 euros for two games.
is Open meanwhile, if German Teams will participate in the final tournament. As the first Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg for a rising this Wednesday with the match at Shakhtar Donetsk in the modified competition (18.55 PM in the F. A. live scores for the Europa League and in DAZN). Because the first leg was a regular in front of the Corona-Lockdown, instead, needs to catch up to the VfL in Kiev 1:2 in front of their home crowd. Eintracht Frankfurt plays to a 0:3 first-leg defeat on Thursday at FC Basel in the quarter-finals, Bayer Leverkusen with 3:1 from the game at Glasgow Rangers in the game.
