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Germany’s game with Denmark resumes at Euro 2024 after thunderstorm
View Date:2024-12-23 20:36:02
DORTMUND, Germany (AP) — The Germany-Denmark game has resumed after being suspended due to a thunderstorm during the round-of-16 clash at the European Championship on Saturday.
The teams resumed play around 24 minutes after referee Michael Oliver took the teams off, following a brief warmup session. No puddles were visible, though after the game resumed some chunks of turf began to come loose and players slipped.
The score was 0-0 in the 35th minute when the referee took the players off with rain pouring, high winds and repeated lightning strikes near the Westfalenstadion. A loud bang resounded around the stadium shortly before the players were taken off.
Hail was even falling on the field during the interruption in a stark contrast to the previously warm summer evening.
“Due to adverse weather conditions the match has been suspended. Further information will follow shortly,” read an announcement on the stadium screens.
Fans in the front rows of the stadium’s famed South Stand moved under cover as the gale blew torrents of rain onto their seats and water cascaded off the edge of the roof. Some German fans sang: “Oh, how lovely it is,” and a few Danish supporters danced in a torrent of water falling on their area of the stands.
Local police said two big-screen viewing parties in local fan zones were canceled because of the weather. “Please leave these locations,” police wrote on X.
The winner goes on to play Spain or Georgia in the quarterfinals on July 5.
Severe weather events have been a regular problem for UEFA and European Championship organizers much more than for FIFA and the World Cup.
In 2008, co-host Switzerland played a group-stage game against Turkey through heavy rain in the first half at Basel. Puddles in the Turkey goalmouth helped Switzerland take the lead as the ball was stopped by the standing water for Hakan Yakin to tap in his shot.
Rain subsided and the puddles were mostly removed at halftime but the St. Jakob Park playing surface survived only one more game — another rainy affair between Switzerland and Portugal — before it had to be relaid ahead of the quarterfinals.
The operation to bring in a new turf from the Netherlands cost UEFA 200,000 euros ($214,000), it was reported at the time.
Heavy rains affected another co-host team at Euro 2012. Ukraine’s game against France in Donetsk was stopped after just five minutes of play by referee Björn Kuipers. Just when it seemed the teams would have to come back the next day to resume play at Donbas Arena, rain abated and the teams restarted after a 56-minute pause.
The effect on the television scheduled meant the subsequent game that day — Sweden vs England in Kyiv — was pushed back by 15 minutes.
In France, a Euro 2016 game was suspended for several minutes by a hail storm in Lyon, the Northern Ireland and Ukraine players coming off the field in the 58th minute.
One of the Euro 2016 stadiums did get a new Dutch-grown field laid before the quarterfinals after weeks of persistent rain and little sunshine in Lille.
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Geir Moulson in Berlin and Graham Dunbar in Frankfurt, Germany, contributed.
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AP Euro 2024: https://apnews.com/hub/euro-2024
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