UEFA EURO 2016

Comment: Vives les Outsiders!

A sporty devaluation of the tournament with “EM-tourists” – the criticism of the EM-increase was large. The so-called “Small” to prove that they have earned their place more than says Joscha Weber.

The great Russia times just in the knee forced The Slovaks to create the next big Surprise of the tournament

With the final whistle, the players were in white. Frustration, exhaustion. They had given everything, had run, had defended with man and mouse, however, even the way to the opposing goal sought, the
Hosts France with Proud on the forehead. And then, thanks to two goals in the last minutes but still lost. Now they were sitting there, the Albanians. Exhausted, sad and defeated. They would be able to the Stade Vélodrome, Marseille head held high, and leave.

No Class Difference

DW sports editor Joscha Weber: The furious appearance of the “Small” is the first good news of the tournament

The heavy underdogs Albania played in stages on par with tournament favourites France. For a Euro you got back before the start of the tournament, the betting four, if France win the European championship at the end. For the same application, there is 501 euros, if Albania will triumph in the end. Only: such A difference was not noticed between the first and the last of the EM-odds table on the square. And Albania is not an isolated case.

Because the so-called “Small” rock in the past, the EURO 2016. Actually, Yes, because UEFA expanded the tournament from 16 to 24 Teams, to show the outsiders that you listen to sporty in here.
Hungary surprised the actually, the resurgent Austrians with a clear victory,
Island drives the three-time world footballer Ronaldo, when 1:1 against Portugal in the despair that four years ago, still have chance to loose
Irish show against Sweden, suddenly real class, the
Ukraine world champion Germany has a long forehead,
Wales and the
Slovakia have both already won a race on the account. Colorful Filler for the preliminary round? Mais non! Vives les Outsiders…

The mode is a joke, the increase is but a gain

Now is
Increase in the EM for a profit. The games have almost consistently more quality than expected, the groups are without exception exciting, and the majority of Games will be happy anyway, the football-crazy Europeans. Of course, a tough financial exploitation behind it is the interest of UEFA, the collected from each game is more lush money. Of course, we owe the expansion of the game plan, the
The power game within the UEFA, in the such measures of the small federations votes. And of course, the selected mode is to be sorted out, according to which, in the preliminary round, only a paltry eight out of 24 Teams, is a joke.

But the “Small” have earned their place. For the most part impressive performances in qualifying and, above all, by the previous performances in the tournament. At the Club level, the European football experienced a likewise ominous as boring and steadily continued concentration on a handful of Big players. The Champions League, with their very unequal qualification rules has long been a Club fermé of the rich Top clubs. The EM is now even outsiders from smaller, financially weaker countries Excel, is so far perhaps the first good news in a otherwise, of many Negative headlines overshadowed the tournament.

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