Friday 11 June, the European football championship, Euro 2020, begins on the Old Continent with a Turkey-Italy as a poster. The Euro, a European competition, which will also be celebrated in Africa as always, since certainly the 1984 edition and the intrusion of sports competitions in Africa via television.

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In a new world, transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, the passion for football has remained intact. The empty stadiums have not altered the enthusiasm, and the distance will not prevent Africans from vibrating for this competition which will not have the same identity stamp as an CAN or the planetary frenzy of a World Cup. But undoubtedly what football best conveys in the world and for everyone, passion, will be present and shared.

From Kinshasa to Algiers, from Rabat to Dakar via Malabo and Luanda, Africans will follow the Euro, much more than the African CHAN , the first international football tournament organized in times of Covid, last January. Because football has no borders, yes, but above all because the links that have existed, and still exist between African countries and most European nations, bring this additional spice, enthusiasm, love and out of spite to the “ Euro-African ” supporters .

Kylian Mbappé’s France will be loved as much as hated in Algeria, unless the return of Karim Benzema tilts the scales in the side of blue fervor. In Bata, the second city of Equatorial Guinea, the only African country colonized by Spain, it is likely that the ” vamos!” »Will punctuate the matches of La Roja. Will Belgium feel this push that will come from Kinshasa? Will the Malians be more for Ngolo Kanté than for the France team?

It is this African look that Sportnewsafrica wants to pose by making a special coverage of the Euro on the website and social networks. Take the pulse of African capitals 24 hours before kick-off, follow Belgium-Russia in Kinshasa, tell Germany-France in a maquis in Yaoundé and Abidjan, tell the stories of those who could have played for Africa, etc. Without counting, the animations, contests, surveys, planned by the direction of SNA in certain cities (Kinshasa, Dakar) for this festival of football