Berlin Prepares for Green Mega Party for European Football Championship 2024

Berlin – This has never happened before! Where there are usually thousands of cars, everything is green. There is a gigantic lawn on the fan mile – for the mega party cracker for the European Football Championship in the capital!

These are the first sensational photos of the preparations for the fan festival at the Brandenburg Gate. And that makes your eyes go green! A huge artificial turf is currently being rolled out between the gate and the victory column.

The world’s longest fan mile is being built here for the 2024 European Football Championship. Football fans can watch the games live there, play and celebrate together in June and July.

This will be the fan festival for the 2024 European Championship in the capital

The Straße des 17. Juni in Berlin will be completely closed for three months and buses will be rerouted. 24,000 square meters in front of the Brandenburg Gate and on part of the street will be equipped with artificial straws made of polypropylene.

Costs for the green lawn happiness: 1.2 million euros! The Sunday after next (May 26th) the lawn will be completely rolled out. The tracks that are laid out in front of the Brandenburg Gate are 40 meters long and 4.05 meters wide.

The capital is full on football!

View from the Victory Column onto the Street of June 17th. The first part of the street in front of the Brandenburg Gate is already covered with turf

Photo: Fabian Matzerath / BILD

There is nothing left of the street and cycle path. Instead, artificial turf now covers the Street of June 17th

Photo: picture alliance / Geisler-Fotopress

In any case, the green asphalt is very attractive for wild animals. A snapshot shows a fox on the pile.

Berlin’s animal inhabitants apparently also like the new green. Here is a fox sitting in the middle of the Street of June 17th

Photo: private

Turf is not just for fans of the European Championship

After the European Football Championship, the artificial turf should be wet cleaned and brushed up. He is dismembered and is given a second-hand life on football fields, in Tegel prison and daycare centers.

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Natural grass was out of the question for the EM fan mile. Reason: According to those responsible, it should have been watered daily. Weather conditions with heavy rain and extreme heat would have been too hard on him.

All information about public viewing on the fan mile

The countdown to the start of the 2024 European Football Championship is on!

The European Championship opening game on June 14th is also the first game for the German national team. The opponent in the game in Munich is Scotland. ZDF broadcasts live on TV from 9 p.m.

The biggest fan festival in Germany is taking place in Berlin! Public viewing at its finest – in true green splendor! It’s supposed to be a gigantic party.

The largest soccer goal in the world – 21 meter high posts, the crossbar on top of which is 63 meters long – is currently being erected there. It is intended to serve as an entrance gate to the fan festival for football fans from Berlin and all over Europe, frame the Brandenburg Gate and at the same time serve as a screen on which the games are broadcast live.

The largest football goal in the world is built here. It frames the Brandenburg Gate

Photo: Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa

The fan mile will be open on all match days. Admission is usually from 2 p.m. It should be open until midnight – at least for Germany games, for games in Berlin (six European Championship games will take place in the Berlin Olympic Stadium) and for every game from the quarter-finals onwards. The games are broadcast on gigantic monitors. If there is no transmission, the mile opens as early as 8 a.m.

Free entry to the football festival

For security reasons, the entire fan festival will be fenced off and can only be accessed via controlled entrances. Admission is free. There will be numerous snack bars and drinks stands for your physical well-being. The organizers expect up to 130,000 spectators to attend the games.

This is what the fan festival at the 2006 World Cup looked like in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

Photo: Marcel Mettelsiefen/dpa

Berlin Police Chief Barbara Slowik (58) announced on Wednesday: “We will see a very high police density in the hotspots on match days.” She did not want to give exact numbers yet. “There will certainly be several thousand colleagues around the relevant locations.”

Regarding possible terrorist attacks, Slowik said that there had been an “abstract high risk” that had existed for years. At the same time, she emphasized: “We currently have no indication of specific attack planning.”

There will also be a gigantic fan festival in Frankfurt am Main, even with a light show. In Leipzig, too, preparations for the football party are already in full swing.

The federal states are even re-regulating existing curfews especially for the European Football Championship: the night’s rest will be postponed!

All dates, groups & teams: BILD presents the game plan!

The football party can come – it will be a mega fan festival!

2024-05-15 21:06:55
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