Kicker - Bucharest and Budapest

NICK EICHER, HOST: If you love European football, you’ve got to be excited for the Euros with the semifinals cranking up tomorrow and the final this upcoming weekend.

The defending World Cup team France won’t be there, sadly, and I don’t want to confuse cause and effect here.

But France didn’t advance to the semis—maybe because six of their biggest fans weren’t on-hand to cheer them on.

The reason why is confusing—confusing for them, for sure.

You see, the Euros are spread out over 11 different venues around Europe, so you have to be precise when you buy tickets.

As it turns out, these six French fans intended to go to a match in Hungary, but they ended up traveling to Romania instead.

How in the world do you get that wrong?

Easier than you think. They traveled to Bucharest, but held game tickets to Budapest.

Budapest, Bucharest—easy to get wrong, difficult to correct the error. It’s a 10-hour drive. So they hung out in Romania and one of the fans told Sports Illustrated, “You know, we need to learn more about Europe.”

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