Juniors on Thursday at European Championship draw in pot 2 | Sport

sport">So always stay up to date with all the sports news. For football, tennis, skating, motorsport, cycling and darts news, we have set up special pages on our website, on which the most important things in these sports are highlighted. This section Sport Short mainly deals with the other messages.

Juniors on Thursday at the European Championship draw in pot 2

sport">12.37 pm: The Juniors will hear on Thursday which countries it will face in the group stage of the European Championship in Hungary and Slovenia. The team of national coach Erwin van de Looi is in the draw in pot 2, together with Italy, Denmark and Portugal. Pot 1 consists of the strongest countries on paper: defending champions Spain, Germany, France and England.

sport">Because the postponed European Championship for A-countries will also be held this summer, the European Championship for players under 21 has been divided into two parts. The group stage will take place from 24 to 31 March. The numbers 1 and 2 of the four groups will advance to the knockout phase, which will be held from May 31 to June 6. The final is in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana.

sport">The draw will take place at UEFA’s headquarters in Nyon and will start at 3 p.m. on Thursday.

Football: Björn Kuipers in Champions League to Madrid

sport">09.48 am: Referee Björn Kuipers will be in charge of the game in the Champions League between Real Madrid and Borussia Mönchengladbach on Wednesday. It is a match from group B, in which the battle is still completely open.

sport">Borussia Mönchengladbach enters the final round with 8 points, Sjachtar Donetsk and Real Madrid have 7 points. Internazionale, the Italian club of Stefan de Vrij, also has a chance of a sequel in the Champions League with 5 points.

sport">The first game between Gladbach and Real, at the end of October in Germany, ended in 2-2. Kuipers will give the first whistle at 9 p.m. in the Estadio Alfredo di Stéfano, the stadium on the training complex that Real Madrid is currently using because the large Estadio Santiago Bernabéu is being renovated.

sport">Serdar Gözübüyük acts as the fourth official at FC Barcelona – Juventus on Tuesday in Camp Nou. The two top clubs are already certain of a place in the knockout phase of the Champions League.

Chess tournament Tata Steel continues despite corona

sport">09.45 am: The Tata Steel Chess chess tournament will take place in January. The management of the steel concern has decided this after consultation with the chess union KNSB, NOC * NSF and the local and regional government. It emerged that a tournament with fourteen grandmasters is possible with due observance of the corona measures. It will be the 83rd edition of the event known as the Wimbledon of Chess.

sport">The organization reports that the Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri will participate in Wijk aan Zee, other names will follow soon. Due to the restrictions surrounding the corona virus, the challenger linked to the tournament will lapse and there are no amateur matches. The trip to another location is also missing.

sport">The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021 takes place in De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee, from 15 to 31 January.

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