Everything You Need to Know about Euro 2021
Euro 2020 is finally here. 24 enter, only 1 will reign. Can Portugal repeat? Is France too good? Is it England or Belgium time?
FINALLY, EURO 2021 IS HERE FOR FOOTBALL FANS AROUND THE WORLD. Well, technically Euro 2020 is finally here. This thing was supposed to happen last summer after all, but a little thing called the pandemic sidelined things for a year. Buuuut they already had all the signs printed and ready to go so *technically* this is still Euro 2020?
Anyway, the qualifiers for this thing happened way back in 2019, other than those weird UEFA Nations League last chance qualifiers which also happened sometime last spring. Now we’ve got 24 teams in six groups of four to narrow things down to 16 knockout spots, which means 72 group games the next few weeks just to knock out a third of the field — enough math for you?
The tournament kicks off Friday, June 11, and runs through Sunday, July 11, which means a full month of glorious daytime football, the perfect sneaky background viewing for… wait, we all work at home now! Games kick off at 9am, noon, and 3pm ET each day, and the tournament will span 11 European countries with crowds packing the stands, which definitely, *definitely* does not make this a giant super spreader event in…
