Hosting big sporting events is proving to have big success for the country. However, in order to get the rights sometimes you may apply more than once.
Bidding process for EURO 2024 has already begun, and one nation announced this Wednesday that it will candidate for the second time. After losing EURO 2016 from France, Istanbul have lost from Tokyo organizing summer Olympic games in 2020, persistent Turkey wants the European championship to be on its soil seven years from now. They are offering 12 stadiums for the show. If the country gets the green light then it will be the first biggest sporting event to be held in Turkey. After the announcement, full support came from president of the state Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
In related news, yesterday Germany announced that even 18 cities wants to be host for the same event. The FA already said that EURO 2024 will play in 10 cities, but on offer showed interest almost double: Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Dortmund, Dresden, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Hanover, Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Leipzig, Monchengladbach, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart. Unfortunately 8 will be dropped off from the list by the German FA in the middle of September.
Apart from Turkey and Germany, Scandinavian joint bid (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) also wants to watch matches at their stadiums. So far it is still unclear whether Estonia and Russia will join forces together and Netherlands as a sole country will join the party for gaining the right to host the European championship 2024. Final decision will be made in September next year.
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