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Turkey was able to evade the cost of hosting the 2024 European Football Championships as the UEFA voted Germany would host Euro 2024 after beating Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said.

Germany will host the 2024 European Championship in football after beating Turkey in a UEFA vote.

France are the established powerhouse with a young team full of speed and skill. Croatia have the veterans that have shown they can never be counted out.

The two sides will meet on Sunday in the World Cup final, with France going for their second title in their third final in 20 years. Croatia, a country that only gained independence in 1991, will be playing in their first.

As a candidate country to host the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, Turkey has completed all the necessary investments into new stadiums, transportation, hotels and infrastructure, the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has said.

Greece will only have to head north for its first campaign in the UEFA Nations League, the new tournament of national teams that offers an alternative path to the Euro 2020 finals.

The Greek team was drawn on Wednesday to face Hungary, Finland and Estonia in a round-robin group of games to take place next fall, from September to November.

All the football fans around the globe are readying their spots on the couch to enjoy the Euro2016 in France, which kicks off on Friday, June 10. US sports network ESPN designed a poster for each of the 24 national teams to promote the event with the title ‘More than football’.

With the Euro2016 competition in France just 3 days away, the official website of UEFA posted an article titled ‘Ten great EURO moments: Charsiteas’s header’. The piece explains why it is one the great moments of a European football championship. The site spoke to the protagonists of that moment, which is still considered by most sport pundits as one the greatest upsets in any sports.

The Bulgarian men's national football team dropped one position in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking released on Thursday.

At present, Bulgaria has 494 points and occupies the 72nd place between the teams of Israel and Uzbekistan.

The 24 nations participating in the 2016 European Championship have discovered who their group-stage opponents will be next summer. Turkey will face Spain - crowned European champions in the last two tournaments - the Czech Republic and Croatia in Group D.

Turkey manager Fatih Terim described the group as "tough" but he remained hopeful.

Turkey snatched automatic qualification for Euro 2016 as the best third-placed team with a last-gasp goal to secure a 1-0 win at home to Iceland thanks to Selçuk ?nan's freekick on Oct. 13.