The Brandenburg Gate becomes a giant football goal – Berlin.de
The Brandenburg Gate transforms into a giant football goal, the Straße des 17. Juni turns into the playing field: A year and a half before the kick-off of the European Football Championships in Germany, Berlin fans were presented with the first plans for his mile. on wednesday.
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Thousands of spectators watch World Cup football matches at the Fan Mile at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate.
Cultural Projects Berlin has come up with something very special for the ‘Mother of Van Miles’, as managing director Moritz von Dürmen puts it. The Brandenburg Gate will be transformed into ‘the world’s largest soccer goal’. As von Dürmen told his Deutsche Presse-Agentur, football goals are set up in front of popular landmarks that also act as screens.
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Straße des 17. “Popup Park” by Juni
A green lawn will be deployed on Straße des 17 for this purpose. Juni is also a ‘pop-up park’ where football fans, city residents and guests can hang out between matches. According to the project, it shows all matches of the German national team, but also many others. Organizers expect hundreds of thousands of fans to attend the broadcast: at the European Championships, 1.5 million of his fans are expected in the capital, where his five other matches There will also be a final match.
No World Cup Fan Miles in Qatar
Funmiles is scheduled to open on June 14, 2024. This will be his first public viewing event at 17 Juni Street since 2018. There were no fan miles at last year’s European Championships. The organizers justified this at the time by the lack of certainty in planning. There will probably be no World Cup fan miles in Qatar either, as Willi Kausch, managing his director of his Berlin-based KIT Group, said there are too many unfathomable factors to fan him. of miles is unfeasible. In the pre-Christmas period, it will be difficult anyway. There is also a sense of uncertainty about the future development of the new coronavirus infection.
Hundreds of thousands of fans at the 2014 World Cup
When the German team won the World Cup in 2014, hundreds of thousands of fans cheered on Joachim Loeff’s team at the time. brandenburg gate and the Victory Monument. In 2018, the DFB team was eliminated in the qualifiers. As a result, the number of spectators decreased, and snack bar owners complained about declining sales.
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Date of issue: 27. October 2022
Last updated: October 27, 2022
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