On June 13th at 8:15 p.m. on ORF 1 the new sports studio will also start, “Team Spirit – Our Way” parts 5 & 6 from 9:55 p.m. and “We are the curve”
Vienna (OTS) – One day before the official opening of the UEFA EURO in Germany (June 14th to July 14th, 2024), the ORF invites you to the long “EM Kick-off” on ORF 1 at 8:15 p.m., which will be followed by the last two parts of “Teamgeist – Ours” from 9:55 p.m Away” and the documentary “Football, fans, rivalries – we are the curve” at 11.35 p.m. The new sports studio as the heart of the multimedia ORF Sport, which celebrates its on-air premiere on the ORF 1 main evening, offers the worthy setting for this. Can also be seen live and afterwards on ORF ON.
As is appropriate, Rainer Pariasek, Alina Zellhofer and Bernhard Stöhr, all EM studio hosts, and Herbert Prohaska, Viktoria Schnaderbeck, Helge Payer and Roman Mählich, all ORF experts, will report on ORF 1 on Thursday, June 13th at 8:15 p.m and experts from the new studio in the ORF center to get in the mood for the 2024 European Football Championship starting on Friday. They are supported on the show by ORF tactics expert Sargon Duran and “referee” Thomas Steiner.
Of course, the Austrian team is the focus of the show, and there are also historical reviews as well as a look at the ÖFB team headquarters in Berlin. The ORF experts deal with the current development of football and present their EM tips. We also look back on June 12, 2021: Almost exactly three years ago to the day, the drama surrounding the Dane Christian Eriksen happened, who had to be resuscitated after a cardiac arrest on the field during the European Championship game against Finland.
Goal guarantee from ALL European Championship games in Ö3 and ORF ON
The ORF will show around 60 hours of the EURO, with a total of 20 live games (including two round of 16 and two quarter-final games). Of those games that the ORF does not offer live, the compact three-minute highlights are on the program immediately after the end of the game. There is also the “Goal Guarantee” on Ö3 (ORF holds all radio rights) and on ORF ON. Short video clips of all games in the tournament, including those to which the ORF does not hold the rights, will be posted online during the game as well as “best-ofs” with all the highlights and exciting scenes afterwards.
“Team Spirit – Our Way” – Episodes 5 and 6 from 9:55 p.m
After a “ZIB Flash” at 9:45 p.m. ORF 1 continues with the last two episodes of the spectacular documentary “Team Spirit – Our Way”. Episode 5 first reminds us of Ralf Rangnick’s appointment as ÖFB team boss in spring 2022. Initially described as a “crazy idea”, the then 63-year-old’s commitment turned out to be a stroke of luck. A year and a half later, Austria’s team confidently qualified for the 2024 European Championship finals in a difficult group. At the end of the 2023 international match year, European Championship hosts Germany will also be defeated – Part 5 looks back at the emotional success over our favorite neighbors.
The sixth and final episode begins with the big shock moment for Austrian football. David Alaba’s cruciate ligament rupture raises concerns as early as December 2023 that the captain will miss the European Championships as a player. However, the ÖFB team is pretty unimpressed by this. In Bratislava, after a world record goal from Christoph Baumgartner, they celebrated an unchallenged success against Slovakia. A real avalanche of goals in the friendly against Turkey sent a clear signal – Austria’s team will be a force to be reckoned with at the European Championships in Germany.
At 11:35 p.m.: “Football, fans, rivalries – we are the curve”
Football is more than sport. Football is a seismograph of social developments. What can be experienced in the stadiums today can be seen as a response, continuation and further development of processes that shifted to the streets at the end of the 1960s, not least in Italy. The new ORF documentary by Gerald Heidegger and Daniel Budka takes a look at fan cultures in Austria using the cities of Vienna, Graz and Linz as examples and shows how much the “curve” in the stadium is part of a larger social process. Choreography in the stadium is a phenomenon that is now a good half a century old and which, coming from Italy, has also reached domestic stadiums. In Italy, the stadium responded to the student movement and skepticism about the state at the end of the 1960s. While the Ultras movement in Italy initially tended to be left-wing, over the decades it moved increasingly to the right. In Austria, football and the football curve have become broader socially, almost more pop-cultural. This opening also shows that different social groups look for “their” club for different reasons.