European
Football Championship 2012
This
year we are eagerly awaiting two major sporting events: The Olympic Games in London AND
the European Football Championship! This time it will be held in Poland and the Ukraine
from 8th June to 1st July 2012,
just before the Olympic Games. There will be 16 European teams competing
against each other and I’m sure it will be just as exciting as the Olympic Games,
especially for all football fans amongst us!
As
a German I will be closely watching the German performance and support “my”
team. There are some very talented young footballers in the German squad- Thomas Müller, Toni Kroos, Andre Schürrle,
Holger
Badstuber, Marco Reus- to name just a few. The German team, currently coached by Joachim
Löw, has won the Euro cup three times (1972, 1980 and 1996) and
is keen to play well this year, too. England will
also be participating in the competition and play against countries like
France, Ukraine and Sweden (Group D), while Germany will be looking at opponents
such as Portugal, Denmark and the Netherlands (Group B). Most important, I
hope to see a lot of thrilling games as well as fair play and hope that the
strongest team will win in the end. Football is very popular in Germany, so in
the four weeks in June many people will meet in public places and beer gardens
to watch a number of games on big screens (public outdoor screenings), like they did back in 2006 when the world cup was held in Germany. Let’s hope
for nice weather!
Karoline
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