The Euro 2020 soccer Championship, trumpeted as a continent-wide banquet of football from Dublin to Baku to mark UEFA‘s 60 th anniversary, was delayed for a year on Tuesday as the coronavirus pandemic declared its greatest sporting casualty yet.
The fate of the 24- country, month-long masterpiece due to start in June had hung in the balance ever since Europe’s domestic leagues began closing down in the wake of the sweeping health crisis, which has actually eliminated around 7,000 people worldwide.
UEFA eventually relayed the news after an emergency video conference with all 55 of its associated nationwide federations and agents from clubs and leagues.
” We are at the helm of a sport that large numbers of individuals live and breathe that has been laid low by this undetectable and fast-moving challenger,” UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin stated in a statement validating what the Norwegian and Swedish FAs had actually currently leaked earlier in the day.
” It is at times like these, that the football neighborhood requires to show responsibility, unity, solidarity and altruism.”
