Switzerland comfortably won the votes for hosting the Women’s European Football Championship 2025 last April. The tournament, which will feature 16 national teams and be played in eight venues, pitted France, Poland and the joint bid made up of Nordic teams Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. However, in the last few hours came the disturbing news.
The Swiss Government has announced a 75% cut! in the budget initially allocated to the Euro organization, which shocked everyone and did not go down too much, as well as the other candidates. “It’s a disaster,” Matthias Aebischer, president of the Swiss Parliament’s Sports Council, told state broadcaster SRF.
The championship has a budget of 15 million Swiss francs, about 16 million euros, but more than a year before everything starts, the government decided to reduce the subsidies to four million for cost-saving reasons. This is a reduction of almost 75 percent. Thun is one of the host cities and its councilor Katharina Ali-Oesch wonders if they can organize their matches without government support. “It’s disappointing, we were expecting something completely different.”
Source: La Verdad
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