Euro 2024: Can Germany repeat the glorious football parties of yesteryear?

The official football of Euro 2024 is placed on synthetic turf as children play football in front of Berlin's landmark the Brandenburg Gate. Photograph: Jens Schleuter/AFP via Getty Images

“People are delighted, they want to take off their shoes and walk though it,” said Moritz van Dülmen, chief executive of arts event agency Kulturprojekte Berlin, which realised Berlin’s unusual fan mile.A different feeling is exactly what the doctor ordered in Germany, home to a sclerotic economy, a soaring housing crisis, rising political extremism. The war in Ukraine is just a train ride to the southeast.

The official mascot, Albaert, of Euro 2024 poses on synthetic turf as children play football in front of Berlin's landmark the Brandenburg Gate. Photograph: Jens Schlueter/AFP via Getty Images And what of 2024? So far the weather is looking good, with 28 degrees and and sun forecast, but the public mood still needs work. Travel through Germany and you would be hard-pressed to see signs that a major world sporting event is looming.

In other words, things sound just like June 2006 when, just before the first kick-off, a journalist from the Zeit weekly urged people to celebrate the World Cup “without any tribal markings – not one black-red-gold flag or garland”.

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