European Football Championship (late, but finally :-)

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Yes, I know - not everybody loves football ... I'm also not a big fan, but when in time do you have the European Football Championship in your own land? That's why I bought Austria-flags for my car und watched several games at the fan-zone in Vienna.

The spirit was really great. I didn't think, that this would happen, but it seemd to bee like an fever, spreading across Austria. And it was really great watching the games in the fan-zone in front of the city-hall of Vienna. I also did like very much, that no matter who you've been on, the fan's of the different teams always celebrated together - no matter who won.

I also do like Spain as new European Football Champion - they really deserve it, because they played good football (won every match). Although I would have liked Austria to manage to qualify for the quarter-final ... but nevertheless, I did like what the Austrian-team showed in the games: active playing, ability to keep up with the top football-teams of europe, enthusiasm and engagement - this gives hope for the future ("only" shooting goals seemed not to be able for them - that's something to be worked on)!


And this is also a novelty to my blog: Here are the first pictures of my blog!!! Yeah, it's unbelieveable, isn't it? It only took me 3 month to add some pictures! Isn't that an incredible speed?! :-)

For all of you, who want to hear, what the spirit was like: spirit-sound

Now, here are my impressions of the European Football Championship in Vienna (sorry, I can't control where the pictures are shown :-():

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Photos

Entrance
Entrance to the Fan-zone in Vienna, near the city-hall.

Fans
Two friends of mine, supporting Austria.

Video-wall
Viedo-wall in front of the city-hall of Vienna

Visitors 1
About 75.000 people watching Austria-Germany

Visitors 2
Waiting for the game to beginn ...

Friends 1
Friends and I, waiting for the game to start

Friends 2
I think you can guess the message :-)

Friends 3
all the friends together

Entertainment
Entertainment-program prior to the game (we've been there almost 3 hours in advance and shortly after we entered the zone, they closed it, because of congestion!).

Brave
Austria-supporter from Tirol. If you can't read it: Front: It's about time - let's do it boys! Side: Swap Vienna (part of Austria) against South-Tirol (part of Italy). No comment ... :-)

Visitors 3
lot's of people ...

Visitors 4
perfect weather

Visitors 5
real enthusiasm

Visitors 6
bachelor party

Visitors 7
sexy?

Visitors 8
Special, german fan

Makeup
no one can escape the austrian-flag ;-)

Ecstasy
... one wins

Disappointment
... one looses

Shoes
Shoes of all the qualified nations have been placed in front of the "Museumsquartier" and always the actual-game-partners have been placed besides the football