“This tournament will generate a unique interest in history.
Michel Platini did not believe in saying so well. Because the European Nations Championship, which celebrates its 60th anniversary, has never been so talked about. By its matches but also, and above all, by the multiple controversies that escort them. From the knees on the ground of the players to the controversies over the jerseys through the demonstrations of support for LGBT rights, societal and political issues were invited in the stadiums. To the dismay of UEFA, the organizer of the Euro, who was looking elsewhere, obsessed - rightly - by the health crisis.
"No one had anticipated the extreme politicization of this Euro
," explains Jean-Baptiste Guégan, a teacher specializing in the geopolitics of sport.
It is a return of geopolitics in football never seen since the 1980s. All the questions which plague Europe as well as all its fractures are found around the fields
.
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