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Christmas Truce Monument, Plugstreet
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Christmas Truce Monument, Plugstreet
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Christmas Truce Monument, Plugstreet
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Wim Vangheluwe
May 24, 2020
Cycling
A well-known story from WWI is the Christmas football match between the English and the Germans. Here you will find a beautiful monument of UEFA in memory of this remarkable Christmas Truce. Next to it is the Christmas Truce Plug Street, gravel road from Ghent-Wevelgem.
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•DirkWi
November 10, 2024
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On Christmas Day 1914, British and German soldiers emerged from the trenches to fraternize and play a game of football in a temporary "no man's land".
100 years later, UEFA placed a monument here to commemorate this.
On 17 December 2014, Michel Platini, then chairman of UEFA, unveiled the monument. Beforehand, a film of the football match from that time, here in Komen-Waasten, was shown in the Ypres Saint Martin's Cathedral.
Source: sporza.be/nl/2014/04/08/uefa-herdenkt-kerstbestand-van-1914-in-ieper-1-1934624
100 years later, UEFA placed a monument here to commemorate this.
On 17 December 2014, Michel Platini, then chairman of UEFA, unveiled the monument. Beforehand, a film of the football match from that time, here in Komen-Waasten, was shown in the Ypres Saint Martin's Cathedral.
Source: sporza.be/nl/2014/04/08/uefa-herdenkt-kerstbestand-van-1914-in-ieper-1-1934624
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•🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën
February 2, 2023
Cycling
In this area, on Christmas 1914, British and German soldiers came out of the trenches to fraternize and play football in no man's land. The European football association UEFA unveiled this monument 100 years later.
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