following are reactions to the 2020 european championship being postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus outbreak the proposed dates for european soccers flagship tournament are june 11 to july 12 2021uefa president aleksander ceferinit was important that as the governing body of european football uefa led the process and made the biggest sacrifice ceferin said in a statementmoving euro 2020 comes at a huge cost for uefa but we will do our best to ensure that the vital funding for grassroots womens football and the development of the game in our 55 countries is not affectedfinland captain tim sparvweve been looking forward to this for a really long time it would have been the first time that finland was in a european championship so its a bit sad sparv saidbut in the general perspective in the big picture football is a really small matter now its about life and death and trying to control the spread of the virus so its a good decisiondanish football association chairman jesper molleras things are now the setup of the tournament in 2021 will be the same as the tournament in 2020 moller told reporterscopenhagen has the opportunity to have its four matches so if infrastructure hotels logistics are in place in copenhagen in june 2021 then copenhagen will also have its four matches againfrench football federation president noel le graetthe french football federation fully supports uefas decision to postpone euro 2020 from june 11 to july 11 2021 and to adapt the formats for european competitions accordingly he said in a statementthe international matches planned for march including the two matches of the french team on march 27 and 31 at the stade de france would therefore logically be postponed to juneengland football association ceo mark bullinghamwell be considering the implications for all england teams and our organisation over the coming days including any implications on the date of the 2021 womens euro which we are very proud to be hosting he said in a statementthe end of the mens tournament coincides with the womens euros which was to be held from july 7 to aug 1 2021 in englandeuropean club association chairman andrea agnellithe focus now will be to come up with solutions to conclude the 201920 club season in the most practical manner and beyond that ensure football like society as a whole returns as quickly as possible to its natural form and rhythm agnelli said in a statementnetherlands manager ronald koemanits a pity that euro 2020 has been postponed but football is not the important thing in life right now koeman told dutch tvwe must prioritise what is happening now with the coronavirus i had anticipated it would not happen this summerbelgium manager roberto martinezsince the last world cup we have worked hard to prepare as best possible for the euro 2020 but its off because of circumstances beyond our control martinez said in a video released by the belgian fawe must be united together to beat this virus