The city portal meinestadt.de for example, in its local online event calendar, lists times and locations of live TV broadcasts on large screens in public places (a.k.a. “Public Viewings”), as well as broadcasts and Euro 2008 parties in pubs or beer gardens, with listings of start times, locations and contact details.  According to a press release, all schedules are also available for download via the portal’s mobile version.  In a Euro 2008 Special, one can also check out the game schedule and much more.

Google has also put together an additional Fan portal. Accessible via google.de/23tage, the user can find, among much else, a Fan Map with lots worth knowing about Euro 2008 (e.g. teams, players, games and stadiums). A press report by Google Deutschland, posts also a personalized iGoogle Fan start page with loads of information about the contest, the participating teams and even a YouTube Fan Diary that one can add to.

Internet online directory YellowMap offers soccer fans a special Guide to the festivities, in cooperation with online-portal Raumobil, the Mitfahrzentrale [en=Ride sharing] and Quoka.  Offers include information about the game-cities, with aerial views of the eight stadiums, a ‘tip’ game and a route planner.  In addition, one can reserve hotels and accommodation in Austria and Switzerland, or nearby the hotels where the teams are bunked, and even offer or search for rides to the games.

On the City24 city portal, one can find the games schedule along side with stacks of news about this pan European sporting mega event.  Here too, one can find the locations and details of public viewings or parties on offer. Further, users may personally add local parties and events around Euro 2008, using the so-called ‘CityScout’ feature.

The participation of users is also found as expected on Qype.  The local search and rating platform, in its own blog, calls for users to add listings and reports on public viewings or sportsbars.  Find these under the Groups search term “euro2008” or the Guides listings.

Sharing soccer-mania with other fans is made possible by the local search machine suchen.de.  Here, one simply enters search phrases “Public Viewing” or “Sportsbar” plus a location, to discover where the games are to be broadcast in public places or bars.

Extensive listings of Public Viewings and Sportsbars are also to be found on the online directory DasÖrtliche.de and DasTelefonbuch.de.  Both services offer a special search feature on Euro 2008, in cooperation with “Premiere Sportsbar”.  DasTelefonbuch.de also allows its users to participate ‘virtually’ in the festivities – using the so-called “Virtual-Kicker League“.  Whoever participates and wishes to ‘appear’ against other online-soccer players, can register online and receives a Player-Pass.  According to DasTelefonbuch-Servicegesellschaft, the virtual game schedule parallels exactly the real Euro 2008, including all preliminary games. The parallel victories and defeats will run alongside the actual events.