Giant 17 meter tall replicas of most team captains. The display is set up at Zürich's main train station.
On Saturday the Euro 2008 Soccer Tournament started (http://www.euro2008.com/) . The games are being played in Switzerland and Austria, and the preparation and excitement in Zürich has been building for months. Yesterday we headed out to downtown Zürich before the Germany/Poland game to check it all out. The game wasn't even being played in Zürich (and it wasn't the Swiss team), but you wouldn't know it by the crowds! The city has been totally transformed: huge viewing platforms and restaurants built out on Lake Zürich itself, dozens of large screen TVs set up around the city, about a hundred food booths, dozens of sponsor booths with games, and several major streets shut down to cars & trams. The tournament lasts for 3 weeks, & we're curious if everything will be shut down for the entire 3 weeks or just for wkd games. (Most movie theatres are actually closed down for the duration of the tournament since they expected such poor movie attendance.) Yesterday was just a reconnaissance outing, but we plan to head back another night for a full night of eating, watching & cheering.
2 comments:
Oh miracle of miracles! I found a way to watch the games on the internet. And because of the time difference they are actually in the morning for us. The bad part though. I did not find out until after the DUTCH BEAT THE ITALIANS!!!!. So we are now anxiously awaiting the game against France. Seems that even after 30 plus years as a US citizen the old loyalties still exits.
GO ORANGE! says
Grandpa.
PS.
http://video.uefa.com/Video/Live/Competitions/EURO/Country=US/MatchList.html
uefa.com
Don't worry - we cheered the Dutch on! Apparently, Bern was awash in orange.
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