UEFA: Its profits above everyone’s lives – In order not to lose euros, with funny excuses it avoids postponing matches due to death –

UEFA’s decision not to postpone the match between England and Greece (1-2) at Wembley due to the sudden death of Greek international George Baldock on the eve of the match caused strong reactions in Greece and England.

With (the usual) argument that there are no empty dates the European federation refused to move the match to another date and it was held as normal. It is well known that UEFA adheres to strict protocols when it comes to postponing matches of its competitions, to such an extent that its insensitivity causes public feeling. And she doesn’t postpone games for any serious reason because she thinks first of all about her… pocket, as every postponement costs her millions of euros from television rights, sponsorships, events, etc. So how can he be moved because a young man has lost his life? We are talking about the same UEFA that promotes fair play and other moral values ​​in its advertising campaigns. Which one? The European confederation that did not postpone the Champions League games even the day after the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers…

On the occasion of what he did not do in the case of the deceased Baldock, Documento found cases where Nyon’s hypocrites closed their ears and eyes and counted euros…

29/05/1985

They hid the deaths

In the bloody final of the Champions Cup Juventus – Liverpool in the Hazel of Brussels, an hour before the start of the match, violent incidents broke out in the stands by the English hooligans who attacked the Italian stand with a tragic account of the death of 39 Italian fans. The teams asked for the match to be abandoned, but UEFA were pushing for the final to go ahead, arguing that if it didn’t, there was a risk of even bigger incidents. In the midst of negotiations, the officials of the European federation asked the two clubs not to let the players know about the dead so that the final could go ahead as normal. Indeed, after an hour’s delay, the game was played without the players’ knowledge of the victims, as if nothing had happened.

11/09/2001

Ball with 3,000 dead

UEFA showed its worst self in the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York. On Tuesday, September 11, the 1st matchday of the Champions League groups was to be held, with the participation of Panathinaikos, who would compete on the same night in Germany against Schalke. But the morning of that day was to change the life of all humanity. The US received an unimaginable terrorist attack with more than 3,000 people losing their lives at that time in the World Trade Center.

How to talk about football when everything is frozen? Not exactly all, since the Nyon paper-collars decided that the games of that day would be played as normal with the funny excuse that the teams had already traveled to the countries where the matches would take place and… they thought of their inconvenience! So the teams were forced to compete despite the global outcry. Panathinaikos won 2-0 in Germany, with the atmosphere in the packed stadium almost eerie. The atmosphere was heavy and charged since no one felt safe. A few years later, the veteran ace Andreas Meller, in an interview about that night, launched a fierce attack against UEFA and accused it of not canceling all matches for the sake of profit. All UEFA did was to observe a minute’s silence before the start of the matches. “Somewhere else people were dying in strange ways and we had to entertain people. The footballers couldn’t get the images we saw earlier in the hotel out of our minds,” said Meller. “We were advised not to postpone the matches because more security issues would arise,” a Nyon official explained at the time. The next day, after the worldwide condemnation, UEFA postponed Wednesday’s matches, including Olympiacos – Manchester United at OAKA.

23/10/2002

Carnage in Moscow

A group of about 50 Chechens stormed the packed Dubrovka theater in Moscow and held 850 hostages on October 23. Tragic death toll of 180. Restless, the European federation did not postpone the Champions League matches, which took place as normal that night (Olympiacos was defeated by Manchester C. 2-3 in Rizoupoli). Whatever Lokomotiv Moscow was fighting for the 8th group in Barcelona…

18/11/2015

Unfazed by threats

UEFA as usual were in no mood to change their schedule on November 18 despite the barrage of six terrorist attacks in Paris. The federation made it clear in its disappointing announcement that “all games for the Champions and Europa League will be played as normal” and was content to emphasize that it is “working intensively in cooperation with the home teams to ensure that all the necessary measures are taken for the safe conduct of the games”. That night, Marseille and Monaco played at home and Paris, Bordeaux and St. Etienne played away.

11/04/2017

The shock of Dortmund

In Dortmund, Sokratis Papastathopoulos’ Borussia team were leaving their hotel for the stadium for the Champions League quarter-final first leg against Monaco when a triple explosive device planted in a roadside flower bed detonated as the German team’s coach drove past. group (perpetrator a 29-year-old Russian who was sentenced to 14 years in prison). According to German police, the coach’s tires burst and several windows were broken, resulting in 26-year-old Spanish defender Marc Bartra, who was taken to hospital and eventually underwent surgery on his right wrist, with a hand injury from the glasses, as well as a police escort. It should be noted that the coach had triple windows, which… saved the Dortmund mission from the worst. UEFA postponed the match for… 24 hours and obliged Borussia despite the terrifying shock to play the next day!

“UEFA must understand that we are not animals. We are people who have families and children. We are not animals. I am happy because all the players and the coaching staff are alive. It’s very difficult today to think and play football,” Papastathopoulos said, while the team’s coach at the time, Thomas Tuchel, burst out: “Nobody asked us about the match. UEFA just decided and announced it. We felt ignored. That they didn’t care about us. It’s as if they just threw a can of beer at us on the bus and nothing happens. As if we are helpless.”

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