They were Yugoslav, Soviet, Czechoslovak and French and played football.

It sounds like the beginning of a joke from the Second World War, but it is actually a direct description of the situation at the first European Football Championship in 1960.

“Football, as well as associations such as UEFA, strive to include Eastern and Western European countries in their community, despite the difficulties that this created in the organization of the competition.

“Although there was a clear separation at the political level, we can say that football has been trying to overcome…