Thank you for your interest in the BVB London Fan Community Podcast. In each episode, we focus on discovering a facet of Borussia Dortmund's life in the podcast by talking to experts and former participants in the club's life such as players, fans, coaches or even journalists who have influenced this club in its development.
Our guests on the podcast today, a UEFA European Championship 2024 preview, are Nick Rayner, chief football writer of The Yorkshire Post newspaper, and Andreas Gschaider, a Munich-based football entrepreneur.
Stuart Rayner the author and chief football writer of the Yorkshire Post newspaper. Stuart is also a specialised cricket writer and the author of two books 'Five Trophies and a Funeral' and 'War of the Roses'.
Andreas Gschaider, is the founder of football training app B42, the app which was created together with the DFB, the German national team, Physio Oliver Schmidtlein. B42 is a specialist training app which allows players to put together training programmes designed to optimise training and recovery, as well as nutritional advice. The app is used by over 1,000 teams including 1. FC Nürnberg, Werder Bremen and VfB Stuttgart in 21 countries.
The draw for the UEFA European Championship 2024 took place on Saturday and the hosts are in a group A which includes Scotland. Whilst England are in group C with amongst others Denmark.
The tournament takes place across 8 stadia across Germany including Dortmund's Signal-Iduna-Park (Westfalenstadion) from the 14 June to July 14th.
The twenty-four teams are divided into 8 groups of 4 teams; groups A to F. The qualified teams are: England, Scotland, France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Albania, Serbia, Romania, Switzerland, hosts Germany, Croatia, Portugal, Czechia, Slovenia, Belgium, Slovenia, Netherlands, Slovakia, and Turkiye.
Four teams of the remaining play-offs between the best placed third place finishers i.e Israel, Poland, Luxembourg, Wales, Iceland and Kazakhstan. The playoff will take place in March.
The tournament is the biggest tournament in Germany since FIFA World Cup 2006, this is Germany's second European tournament after 1988 which was won by outsiders Denmark.
The podcast is a group by group preview and a look at Julian Nagelsmann team, and the prospects for the tournament in Germany. As well as a look at the Borussia Dortmund players who are expected to take part.
1. Germany's group A Switzerland, Hungary, Scotland and the hosts.
2. Group B the group of death Spain, Croatia, Albania, Italy.
3. England's group C Slovenia, Serbia, Denmark.
4. Group D France, Austria, Netherlands and a play-off qualifier which could be Wales, Finland, Poland or Estonia.
5. Group E Belgium, Slovakia, Netherlands and a play-off qualifier which could be Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzengovina, Israel or Iceland.
6. Group F Portugal, Czechia, Turkey and winner of play-off c which could be either Greece, Georgia, Luxembourg or Kazakhstan.
7. How is interim manager Julian Nagelsmann doing?
8. World Cup 2006 was a huge success for Germany but the country is in an economic downturn how are preparations going and is the country looking forward to the tournament?
09. A look at the Borussia Dortmund players who are likely to feature in the tournament including Nico Schlotterbeck, Marcel Sabitzer, Karim Adeyemi, Mats Hummels, Gregor Kobel and Niclas Fuellkrug.
10. The DFB U17 World Cup winners, is the beginning of a new era for 'Die Nationalelf'?
11. The teams and players that will be missed at Euro 2024 including Erling Holland's Norway, Ireland and Sweden.
12. Social media.
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