{"id":365330,"date":"2024-05-29T17:57:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T15:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/05\/29\/calcio-campagna-elezioni-europee-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T18:54:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T16:54:57","slug":"from-champions-league-to-the-ballot-box-soccer-pushes-european-vote-including-atalanta-napoli-and-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/05\/29\/from-champions-league-to-the-ballot-box-soccer-pushes-european-vote-including-atalanta-napoli-and-milan\/","title":{"rendered":"From Champions League to the ballot box, soccer pushes European vote, including Atalanta, Napoli, and Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013\u00a0From the winner of the Europa League, Gian Piero Gasperini’s Atalanta<\/strong>, to the Champions League final scheduled for Saturday (June 1) between Spain’s Real Madrid and Germany’s Borussia Dortmund, European elections are bursting onto the soccer fields (and beyond), when the June 6-9 vote<\/strong> is now only a few days away, thanks to the European Parliament’s constant mobilization with the
\n“Use Your Vote”campaign<\/a> to raise awareness of the importance of going to the polls among citizens of all 27 EU member states.<\/p>\n

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Belgium women’s national Team Captain Tessa Wullaert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some of Europe’s most famous female soccer players\u2014including Belgium’s captain Tessa Wullaert<\/strong>, German defender Anna Johanning<\/strong> and Finnish striker Sanni Franssi<\/strong>\u2014have signed<\/a> a #UseYourVote ball to encourage female citizens not to remain indifferent to the upcoming transnational democratic exercise. And they have set the example for fellow Luka Modri\u0107<\/strong>, Marko Reus,<\/strong> and teammates, who will take the field to play in the final of the top club football competition on the European continent on Saturday night in London (ironically, in the very United Kingdom that will not participate in European elections for the first time since 1979).<\/p>\n

However, some of Europe’s leading soccer clubs have already used their social media platforms<\/strong>\u2014or pledged to do so in the last ten days of the campaign\u2014to remind and invite all fans to participate in the June 6-9 vote. Atalanta, Milan, Napoli<\/strong>, but also Bayern M\u00fcnchen, Eintracht Frankfurt, and German Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen: “Every vote counts, for democracy, for parties and democratic values<\/strong>,” writes<\/a> the Frankfurt team on its X profile.<\/p>\n

In Brussels, in the heart of the European Union capital, Everton and Belgian national team midfielder Amadou Onana<\/strong> organized a mini-tournament for 16- to 18-year-olds to encourage them to vote for the first time. In addition to soccer, Paralympic bronze medalist in the Triathlon at Tokyo 2020, Italy’s Veronika Yoko Plebani, sported a #UseYourVote<\/strong> campaign scarf during Milan Fashion Week, while the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tournament at the Internationaux de Strasbourg displayed a #UseYourVote campaign banner at the host venue.<\/p>\n

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The EU Parliament’s mobilization continues with the “Use Your Vote” campaign to urge the citizens of the twenty-seven countries to participate in the June elections. Some of the most famous female soccer players have signed a #UseYourVote ball, and so will the players of Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund at the Champions League final<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5647,"featured_media":365170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681,25717],"tags":[25777,25778,25755,26748,26053],"class_list":["post-365330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-sports","tag-european-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english","tag-europeanelections-2024-en","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-european24-en","tag-calcium-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365330"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366658,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365330\/revisions\/366658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}