Euro 2020: All You Need To Know

As the Olympics is getting closer, there is another competition going on, the UEFA European Championship 2020, where, you guessed it, European football teams are competing against each other.

To clarify, the term “football” here is not the American sport they play at the NFL. It’s about another familiar sport, otherwise known as “soccer.” But from the “2020” in the name, you might be wondering: Has someone got it confused or something because it’s already 2021. Well, no, it’s not that the date is wrong. The championship was supposed to take place in 2020, but because of Covid-19, it got delayed. The same thing happened to many sports events, big and small.

So what’s exactly this Euro 2020? It’s more than just a few football games, organized by the UEFA, Union of European Football Associations. The first final of the European Championship took place in 1960 after two years of preliminary contests between seventeen national football clubs. However, it wasn’t the “European Championship” back then. It was the “European Nations’ Cup.” Maybe things change over time, I guess. It was about 60 years ago! In the 1960 final tournament, there were four teams. But that expanded to eight teams in 1980 and 16 teams in 1996. And many like to watch the games, even if it means staying awake overnight. But why?

Well, it’s the second in prestige to the World Cup. So that could be a good reason for the championship being so popular. But it’s not the only reason people watch this championship. Many other sports events also receive much attention. Imagine you have a lot of work to do, and it’s just impossible to finish! What would you do? Well, watching a sports event could make people feel relaxed, escaping from real-world troubles. The reason doesn’t lie in the game sometimes but inside the individual. Are you that kind of person? If you’re under a lot of pressure to get things finished, then maybe you could also consider doing so.

Anyhow, let’s get back to the tournament results so far (these results might change depending on the date you’re reading it). There are already four teams left, and the next stage of the championship is the semi-finals, with Italy versus Spain on July 7th and England versus Denmark on July 8th, all in Wembley Stadium, London. So who do you predict are going to be the winners? You can select your results on the UEFA website (https://gaming.uefa.com/en/uefaeuro2020tournamentpredictor/ko). And that’s the end of this production from the New News Newsminute. Thank you, and maybe you should set a reminder for the semi-finals if you want to watch, just in case.