So the network follows the European championship
When a major tournament in popular sport number 1 is running, the network also jumps on it. Whether you’re a football fan or not, people flood the internet with memes after every match day. We have collected the best for you.
“Football is our life, because the king of football rules the world,” sang the German national team in 1974. That may apply to hardcore fans, but casual viewers can only smile tiredly for such an exaggeration. With one exception: there is a big tournament coming up. Then even relatives who are most distant from sports are in front of the television and when the German national team plays, there is always talk of “we” and “us”. Perhaps it is also better if the 82 million virologists now become 82 million national coaches again.
Football brings people together whether they like it or not, and football makes stories. Stories of all facets, stories that are carried far beyond the football bubble. The European Championship, which will take place in 2021, produced a large number of such stories even before the end of the group stage. And where there are stories, memes are not far away.
One of the stories of the tournament is that of the Danish captain Simon Kjaer, who became a hero after the cardiac arrest of his colleague Christian Eriksen and from whom everyone can learn something about leadership. Then there is Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese superstar, who removed the coke bottles from the table at a press conference and pointed out that it would be better to drink water. Shortly afterwards, the first rumors surfaced that this action was responsible for the sudden fall in the price of Coca-Cola shares. What was wrong. And then there is the Uefa. The association that officially campaigns for equality with its “Equal Game” slogan, but for whom a stadium in rainbow colors is too much.
In addition to all these events, there were of course many scenes that made people laugh. For example, when the Scottish goalkeeper David Marshall got caught in the goal net and looked as if Spiderman had caught him personally, or when David Alaba prevented his teammate Marko Arnautovic from continuing his opponent Ezgjan Alioski with a grip that otherwise only dog professional Martin Rütter has on it to insult. All these scenes and more can be found in memes on the net. Have fun clicking through!
