Grindel wants to “build bridges” at EM 2024

Dusseldorf (SID) President Reinhard Grindel of the German Football Association (DFB) hopes that a successful bid for the 2024 European Championship will also be a sign of unity and against differentiation. “We want to organize a football festival where bridges are built between hundreds of thousands of fans, at a time when national interests are being considered in many countries,” said Grindel on Tuesday at the SPOBIS sports business congress in Düsseldorf. He described the European Championship finals as an "absolute flagship event" for which the DFB submitted a clean application: "We want to show that it's possible if you stick to the rules - based on values and fundamentally decent. We are completely transparent." In addition to Germany, Turkey is applying. Both associations must submit complete documents by the end of April this year, the award from the European Football Union (UEFA) will take place in September 2018. "The UEFA Exco has to ask itself: What should the country look like? What values are lived there? How "Will it be for the fans?" emphasized Grindel. In Germany the games will be played in Berlin, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart. European Championship ambassador Philipp Lahm, World Cup captain in 2014, recalled the successful home World Cup in 2006: "These experiences will stay with me for the rest of my life."

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Grindel wants to “build bridges” at EM 2024

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