Episode 67:UEFA Euro 2024 Preview with guests Andreas Gschaider (B42 Football) and Stuart Rayner (The Yorkshire Post)

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Our guests on the podcast today,  for a UEFA European Championship 2024 preview, are Stuart Rayner, chief football writer of The Yorkshire Post newspaper, and Andreas Gschaider, a Munich-based football entrepreneur. 

Stuart Rayner, the chief football writer of the Yorkshire Post newspaper, 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 and players at clubs including 1. FC Nürnberg, Werder Bremen and VfB Stuttgart. 

The draw for the UEFA European Championship 2024 has taken place and the hosts are in a group A which includes Scotland. Whilst England are in group C with amongst others Denmark. 

Eight stadia across Germany including Dortmund's Westfalenstadion are hosting the matches 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 to take place in Germany since FIFA World Cup 2006, this is Germany's second European championship as hosts after the 1988 event, which was won by outsiders Denmark.  

The podcast is a group by group preview, a look at Julian Nagelsmann's team, and a test of the 'Stimmungslage' (mood) ahead of the football fest in Germany. As well as a look at the BVB players who are expected to make their mark. 

1. Germany's group A Switzerland, Hungary, Scotland. 

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? Can 'Die Nationalmannschaft' shine?

8. The  FIFA World Cup 2006 was a huge success for Germany but the country is in an  economic downturn at this time, how are preparations going? Is the country up for the tournament?

09. A look at the Dortmund players who are likely to feature in the tournament including Nico Schlotterbeck, Marcel Sabitzer, Karim Adeyemi, Mats Hummels, Marius Wolf, Julian Brandt, Marcel Sabitzer, Gregor Kobel, Niclas Füllkrug and maybe Jadon Sancho...

10. The DFB U17 World Cup winners, is the beginning of a new era for 'Die Nationalelf'?

11. Dortmund's Westfalentstadion is once more one of the venues, Kaiserslautern and Hannover however are out, we look at the hosting venues.

12. Social media.

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