Because of Eintracht Frankfurt’s victory celebration: weddings canceled

Eintracht fans in Seville celebrated their Europa League victory on Wednesday evening. At least 100,000 fans are expected at the Römer in Frankfurt on Thursday. However, those who want to marry will not be happy about the party.

Just a foretaste of the party on Thursday: Frankfurt fans celebrate victory in the Europa League final after the end of the game.

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25,000 Frankfurt fans watched their team win the Europa League final over Glasgow Rangers in the stadium. Just as many joined the celebration after the end of the game in Seville. The city is even expecting at least 100,000 football fans to celebrate their winning team on the Römerberg in the center of Frankfurt on Thursday evening.

However, some residents of the metropolis on the Main will be less happy about the victory: Nine weddings in the Römer, Frankfurt City Hall, had to be canceled on Thursday. The rush of fans on the Römerberg makes worthy wedding ceremonies impossible, according to the registry office.

Compensation for the bridal couple

Not all bridal couples whose wedding could not take place today reacted with understanding, said the Frankfurt registrar Natascha Keck to the “Frankfurter Rundschau”. But after the first shock, most of them would have shown understanding. 33-year-old Laura Müller is one of the people whose wedding had to be postponed by one day. Of the «Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung» opposite, the Eintracht supporter said that her 2-year-old daughter taught her to be flexible. You take the shift with humor.

Natascha Keck explained that it was not easy for her to call the affected couples. The last time bridal couples were unloaded from the Romans was in 2017, when French President Emmanuel Macron visited the city. The registrar Keck did not expect Eintracht Frankfurt to make it this far in the Europa League.

The Eintracht Frankfurt players have now also learned about the postponed weddings. The winger Ansgar Knauff told the television show “Hessenschau” that the club would come up with something for the couple: “A gift, jerseys, something. Or they just party with us.” The spokesman for the board of Eintracht Frankfurt, Axel Hellmann, made a concrete commitment. He will invite all bridal couples who cannot get married because of the celebration on Thursday to a home game next season.

Already prepared for the victory celebration: a Eintracht fan on Thursday in Frankfurt.

Already prepared for the victory celebration: a Eintracht fan on Thursday in Frankfurt.

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Car parade and party planned on the town hall balcony

Eintracht Frankfurt expects one on Thursday “State of emergency” in the city. In the afternoon, the team lands at Frankfurt Airport and is driven to the Römer in a motorcade. There, players and coaches are allowed to sign the city’s golden book. The team will then present the trophy to the fans on the balcony.

The last time there was such a football party was in 2018. Eintracht Frankfurt won the DFB Cup that year. At that time there were also tens of thousands of football fans on the Römer and ignited pyrotechnics. Eintracht professional Gonçalo Paciência assumes a similar process tonight, as he announced on Twitter around noon on Thursday.


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