On Saturday, Sweden clinched their seventh victory in the Eurovision Song Contest, and thus became the winning nation in the competition – along with Ireland.
It’s no secret that Eurovision took a long time to plan. Therefore it can be assumed that the first preparations have already been made.
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But it may not be a bed of roses for a neighboring country. The Stockholm football team is not about to give up on competition. It is therefore looking bleak in the work to find a suitable arena that can host the competition in exactly one year’s time, the Swede wrote. Today’s news.
Mattis Fri, chairman of Hammarby’s men’s team which plays at the Tele2 arena, told the newspaper he had no problem with Eurovision, but:
– Tele2 is a football arena and its main purpose will be to use it. We can’t not play a quarter of a season there just because it’s Eurovision, that’s impossible. Six weeks is a very long time, especially in high season like April and May.
Fri believed that it would be impossible to move all three Stockholm football teams to the same venue due to the sheer volume of matches, and that the natural turf at the Friends Arena would not have stood up to the pressure of so much use.
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Robert Falck, chairman of AIK, who plays at Friend Arena, agrees.
– We have an agreement with the arena and want to play all our home games on natural grass in our own home arena, not on Tele2’s artificial turf, period.
The operator of both arenas, Stockholm Live, stated the following to the Swedish newspaper:
– We’ve just received some great news about Eurovision, and it’s all very new. For the Tele2 arena and Friends arena, Eurovision falls in the middle of the football season. We will be in dialogue about when Eurovision wants access, and planning other events. More than that is hard to say.
– He’s turning off
Despite the fact that it may be difficult to host the world’s largest music competition in the capital, it is unlikely that Gothenburg will be relevant either, writes the Norwegian fan site Eurovision ESCNorway.
In 2013, the competition was held in Malmö. What is the probability of a repeat there is still unknown.
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