The next day …

If you are not bored you will look at the editorials that have been written not so long ago since the summer and here. Somewhere you will discover one that is of particular interest. This is what is mentioned and makes a summary of what happened in the final phases of the European competitions 2020. You know the ones that took place in "bubble" conditions for both the Champions League and the Europa league. And we said then that, why not, UEFA should consider making this situation permanent. With people of course in a state of normalcy. But let's leave what we said in that editorial and let's move on to today.

In the main photo one sees a tennis court. And thousands of people around. No, I assure you that this snapshot is not of 2020 in January. Not even in 2019 and 2018, when people flooded the stands in individual and team sports. This photo you see is two days earlier. The Australian Open is currently underway, something like the tennis champions league. Such is the case with tennis for the four grand slams each year. The top four world tennis tournaments, which start in Australia every February, continue in France and Roland Garros in late spring, in England and Wimbledon in the summer to close the party with the United States and the US Open in the autumn. But let  do not get away, we are talking about a ball.

Central photo so in today's editorial it is a game of tennis two days earlier. Australian Open and Tsitsipas against Kokkinakis. And in order not to limit it only to the specific match, on the day that the Greek tennis player faces the Greek-Australian, the Australian Open in Corts was attended by 22.000 people. These are not official figures from everyone's head. And it is the first such far-reaching event attended by tens of thousands of people.

Better a walk in European news and you will realize what? That Molde will host Hoffenheim in Madrigal! Yes, yes on the pitch, the physical headquarters of Villarreal. And where will Sociedad's super match with Manchester United take place? But where else? In Turin. At the stadium of the great Juventus. As well as Benfica - Arsenal will be played at the Rome Olympique. And his rematch? But what else is meant at the "Karaiskakis" stadium in Piraeus. Finally, Wolfsberger vs. Tottenham will play Ferenc Puskas Arena in Budapest. And these until today. Because it is obvious that until the first and second games are played, everything is open for new changes. And of course, we have the sequel, the 16, the eight, the semifinals and so on.

There is always and the Champions League. There, Atletico - Chelsea will be held at the national stadium in Bucharest. The other big match, Gladbach vs Manchester City, will be played at Ferenc Puskas Arena in Budapest. Finally, the other Anglo-German battle, between Leipzig and Liverpool, also found a home at the Ferenc Puskas Arena in Budapest. And of course, in none of these stadiums will there be a fan soul. In empty icy stands that can judge an entire season, I had some of the top teams of old Epirus. 

The great victory of the Australians is that their plan against the pandemic worked famously. Two lock downs strictly, and then the adoption of particularly hard borders. That is, restriction of travel to and from the country with very strict criteria, a control that you do not see in South American bananas, restriction of interregional movements to a minimum, so confinement of patients and their limitation to uniquely low numbers, compared to the rest of the world at least. Result; In Melbourne 20.000 people watch tennis, 40.000 people watch ball, and thousands more watch movies, theater, concerts, whatever they like.

In Europe, the only salvation to get the thing a little interesting is the vaccines. And of course the adoption for this year of at least one bubble situation in the octaves of the European cups. Only then will they be able to play games with a minimum of thousands of fans on the podium. In any other case, with two consecutive seasons of financial ruin of clubs and isolation of football from the fan movement, how much the next day of football will be jeopardized is not measured…

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