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  • Germany hosts Euro 2024

    Adeyinka Akintunde

     

    Germany will host the 2024 European championship, otherwise known as Euro 2024, after beating Turkey to the right, in Nyon on Thursday.

    The Berlin Olympic Stadium will host the final of the 24-team tournament, with 51 games scheduled for up to 32 days in June and July 2024. Other cities that will be used for the competition are Cologne, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart.

    This means that the 2006 FIFA World Cup hosts will stage the European Championship for the first time as a unified country, with West Germany having hosted the 1988 tournament.

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    This is Turkey’s fourth defeat in the past five Euro bidding races. The country had hoped to mark the republic’s 100th anniversary in 2024 by staging its first major international football tournament, haven lost the opportunity to host the Euros in 2008, 2012 and 2016, as well as the the 2020 Summer Olympics

    Euro 2024 will return to a single-host format after Euro 2020 is held across Europe, including Germany.

    In another development, UEFA announced it would begin using video assistant referees(VAR) in the 2019/2020 Champions League, after a debut in the Super Cup. It also approved the use of VAR for the 2020 European Championship and the 2020/21 Europa League.

  • Cologne fined €60,000 after Emirates trouble

    Cologne fined €60,000 after Emirates trouble

     

    Cologne have been fined €60,000 by UEFA following the crowd trouble at their Europa League match with Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.

    Kick-off was delayed by an hour after thousands of travelling fans arrived at the stadium without tickets after marching through London.

    There were then scuffles with stewards as some supporters, who had managed to get into the stands, attempted to force their way into the away section.

    The Bundesliga club have been punished for crowd disturbances, setting off fireworks, throwing objects and acts of damage.

    In addition to the fine, they have been given a ban from selling tickets to an away game in UEFA competition, which has been deferred for two years. They have also been instructed to settle with Arsenal over damage caused by fans.

    The Gunners were charged for a blocked stairwell in the away section but will face no further punishment.

    Skenderbeu will play their next home UEFA match behind closed doors after been found guilty of racist behaviour, illicit chants and setting off fireworks against Partizan. They have also been fined €60,000.

    Braga, meanwhile, have been ordered to close part of their stadium and display an ‘#EqualGame’ banner for their next

    European match after racist behaviour against Ludogorets, while head coach Abel Ferreira has been given a one-game ban after being sent to the stands.

    Shakhtar Donetsk have also been asked to pay a €12,000 fine for fireworks offences in their Champions League match with Napoli.

  • Ujah scores as Cologne win Florida Cup

    Ujah scores as Cologne win Florida Cup

    Nigeria striker, Anthony Ujah was among the goals as his German Budesliga side FC Cologne defeated Brazilian side Fluminense 3 – 2 to lift Florida Cup in the USA.

    Ujah restored parity for his side to take the game to 1-1 when he scored in the seventh minute for his header cancelled Edson’s opener.

    They won the trophy after winning two games, first being a 1-0 victory over Corinthians on Friday.

    The other German team in the competition, Bayer Leverkusen, lost their second game 2-1 to another Brazilian side, Corinthians, on Saturday.

    Levekusen beat Fluminense 3-0 in their first game on Friday.

  • Ujah targets 10 goals for Cologne

    SL10.nggot in contact with Anthony Ujah for his comments on Cologne’s 5-0 thrashing of Wacker Innsbruck on Monday in a pre – season friendly held in Austria.

    The 23-year-old, who has played non stop in Germany for the past three years, has stated that the win by the Billy Goats against the Austrian I Liga club was merited.

    ”Though we are a stronger team in terms of division and experience but football as we know has no small teams, so I would say we were the better side,” the attacker told SL10.ng.

    Ignoring his debut season at Mainz, Anthony Ujah has managed to score double – digits since he arrived Europe from Warri Wolves back in 2010.

    If the Nigeria international shows the same determination as he did in previous seasons, he is hopeful of continuing that goal-scoring purple patch when the last games are played in the Bundesliga next May.

    The former Lillestrom sensation said : ”By the grace of God I will get to that number. I always try to be better than I was so with hard work I will achieve it.”

    So far, Anthony Ujah has netted 53 goals in 110 league appearances for the teams he has represented – Lillestrom, Mainz and Cologne.