Loose barrier

The men's football final at the Paris Olympics will be a match between France and Spain, taking place at 11pm on August 9 at the Parc des Princes. However, in addition to purely technical factors, the final in Paris will be very heated in terms of security. Ensuring the safety of the two teams in the context of nearly 50,000 seats at the Parc des Princes will be covered is not a simple matter. Especially at this year's Olympics, when many incidents related to fans have occurred.

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For example, in the opening match between Morocco and Argentina, fans of both teams broke through security barriers seven times and ran onto the pitch, causing the match to be interrupted. At the end of the match, Moroccan fans threw fireworks and bottles at Argentine players, forcing the referee to stop the match so that both teams could take refuge in the locker room. Learning from the scandal in the opening match, in the match between France and Argentina, security forces blocked off groups of fans in the stands, separating fans of both teams into two separate groups, managed by hundreds of guards. However, later in the match between Spain and Morocco, the "half-laughing, half-crying" incident involving fans happened again. A Moroccan fan rushed onto the pitch in the final minutes, even managing to... dribble and score before being arrested by the police. What if the above-mentioned fan did not just stop at harassment, but attacked the players? In fact, fans have continuously disrupted matches at EURO 2024, such as in the match between Portugal and Türkiye, where at least three times spectators rushed onto the pitch and approached the players at close range despite the large number of security forces.

The fate of France and Spain

The Paris Olympic gold medal match on August 9 will be the third time in just two months that France will face Spain in a major tournament. In the EURO 2024 semi-finals a month ago, Spain under coach Luis de la Fuente defeated France thanks to memorable goals from Lamine Yamal and Dani Olmo, then won the championship. Then, Spain U19 defeated France U19 2-0 in the final to win the European title. The third consecutive encounter between France and Spain not only shows the fate between the two football backgrounds, but also indirectly affirms: these are the two leading football powers in Europe today. If 3 years ago, Spain attended the Tokyo Olympics with a very strong squad that had just reached the EURO semi-finals, then currently, "La Furia Roja" is much more modest, when the brightest stars like Eric Garcia and Fermin Lopez are only in the second-class group. Similarly, coach Henry was once… fed up when a series of big teams in Europe refused to call up good players for France. Malo Gusto and William Saliba are faces who are still old enough to play in the Olympics but cannot wear the French shirt because their clubs refused. Even faces like Jean Philippe-Mateta, Alexandre Lacazette or Michael Olise, are not actually stars of French football. But overcoming doubts, both still went all the way. Spain stood up after the defeat in the final round against Egypt in the group stage, to defeat Japan (3-0) and Morocco (2-1) on the way to the final.

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