Sizzling on the heels of Euro 2024 and the Copa America, the summer time’s third main match is underway.
Whereas the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony doesn’t happen till Friday night, the lads’s soccer match kicked off on Wednesday, with Argentina taking up Morocco in Saint-Etienne, whereas Uzbekistan confronted Spain on the Parc des Costs in Paris.
So given it is the Paris Olympics, some eagle-eyed views have raised the query of why all of the motion is not going down within the French capital. FourFourTwo takes a have a look at why…
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A have a look at the fixture lists for the lads’s and ladies’s tournaments exhibits that the soccer match shall be performed in seven totally different stadiums throughout the entire of France.
Paris Saint-Germain’s Parc des Princes is simply one of many venues used and can host 5 group video games after which a quarter-final, plus the gold medal match.
Matches can even be performed in Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Saint-Etienne, Good and Nantes and there are just a few the reason why the motion will not be unique to Paris.
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The Stade Velodrome will host matches (Picture credit score: Nick Potts)
First off, it is right down to boring logistics. Over the lads’s and ladies’s tournaments, there are 58 video games to be performed in a 17-day interval between July 24 and August 10. Multiple venue is clearly wanted, because the Parc des Princes would wrestle to host as much as 4 video games a day. With the Stade de France getting used as the primary Olympic Stadium and the subsequent largest stadium within the metropolis being Paris FC’s 20,000-capacity Stade Sebastien Charlety, the motion clearly must be unfold about extra.
By taking the match to a few of the largest grounds within the nation, it additionally permits extra followers to be there and provides the entire of the nation the chance to attend an Olympic occasion.
This was the case on the London 2012 Video games, with Wembley internet hosting the gold medal matches, however the likes of Previous Trafford, the Millennium Stadium, St James’ Park, Hampden Park and the Ricoh Enviornment all internet hosting matches.
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