UEFA protocol for television broadcasts | Relief

In addition to all the players that Luis de la Fuente brought to the Eurocup, as well as the international referee Jesus Gil Manzano (on the field), Martínez Munuera and Hernández Hernández (on VAR), there is one more source of pride among those selected for the tournament: UEFA selects six directors from across Europe to direct the broadcasts, and one of them is Oscar Lagofrom Mediapro.

Together with him, two Frenchmen, two Germans and an Englishman lead their broadcast team. Lago, who usually heads production at Mediapro for La Liga, It consists of about 50 people and is responsible for all matches that take place in Frankfurt.. Five games and the 1/8 finals will pass through their hands.

Each headquarters has 47 cameras, as well as camera operators, video and replay managers… it’s not an easy job and, in addition, there are rules that change and adapt to new times. Remember when Christian Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest and was fortunately revived on the field? This was also the case at the European Cup, Denmark-Finland match in 2021. Images (and this Even then they were quite intelligent) shocked the world. One above all: the one that showed the player was conscious again when he left the field.

Now this won’t happen anymore.. We saw the most striking example in Hungarian Barnabas Varga’s powerful strike against Scotland. Once the director realized that the situation was serious, no detailed plans were proposed, and the performance was not repeated, as it would have been done at other times, going through the moment of impact a thousand times. “The main thing is to protect the integrity of the players. and not teach harsh situations that provoke painful reactions,” informed sources explain to Relevo.

“You have to think about the people watching it, as well as the family members. When it turned out that the play was more serious than originally thought, common sense moved to another level,” he adds. In addition, it was activated UEFA Protocol to Protect Footballer Privacy: To ensure that it was not recorded how he was treated, a security team was deployed and accompanied him until he left the stadium on a stretcher.

It’s the same with spontaneous

During Portugal matches, up to six spontaneous players took to the field. Mixing a viral joke influential person who offered money to go out onto the grass wearing a shirt with his name on it, and the usual presence of this type of “fans” at Cristiano Ronaldo matches, the fact is that their presence has become the norm to the point that television shows don’t even focus on them directly anymore. And definitely not close-up.

With this measure they want to avoid the repetition effect that these things cause. That it does not seem, as before, something funny or amusing and that it is not so. create a call effect. Actually This is considered an act of vandalism and the filmmakers are advised to avoid it.the same as spectators in unseemly situations, drunk and the like…

Less “brotherhood” with fans

In the 90s, it was also common for productions to focus on the best-looking and best-dressed fans in the stands. This also remains behind with the new protocols: “Usually there are no more shots of one person. The idea is to show the diversity of people who go to football.“.

There are also certain rules with VIPs: in a global tournament, they usually do not emphasize the presence of a more “local” celebrity (say, the player’s father), but they do emphasize, for example, those who are famous throughout the world. Thierry Henry? Well, yes, because everyone knows it. Maura’s father (for example)? Oh no.

RTVE can configure before, during break and after

When cameras focused on Vicente del Bosque during TVE’s broadcast of the match against Albania, they immediately concluded that the Spanish government wanted to focus on him, paying less attention the figure of the studied Pedro Rocha. Whether this opinion is true or not, TVE can indeed personalize the signal of its matches, but only before, during the break and at the end of them..

Vicente del Bosque, former coach, world and European champion, was clear focus to appear on air about the match of the Spanish national team, but it is true that the background of the government commission, when the TAD was going to disqualify Rocha, offered other nuances.