Couch athlete: Essential home gear for Euro 2024 viewing

As Euro 2024 kicks off, many of us will gather in our living rooms with friends and family to enjoy a month-long football festival. Here’s the gear you’ll want for the ultimate viewing experience.

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As the UEFA European Football Championship begins in Germany this weekend, football enthusiasts around the world and in Israel are gearing up for a month of pure enjoyment, thrilling action, and adrenaline. The tournament features the best national teams on the continent, making this celebration especially enticing.

Even though Israel’s national team did not qualify for the games, the top teams like Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, England, France, and Portugal are set to deliver thrilling performances to viewers at home.

If you’re not planning to fly to Germany and attend the hosting stadiums (though many Israelis are), you’ll likely be lounging on your living room couch. So, how do you prepare your home for the barrage of games, which includes 2 to 3 matches a day? Especially since watching is often a social activity, with many people hosting or visiting each other for shared football evenings. Here’s everything you need.

Sit Comfortably First

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The Euro tournament lasts about a month, which means we need to prepare accordingly to lounge comfortably on a cozy sofa or armchair that will support us throughout all the matches.

The Bear Chair by Nisso Furniture, designed and luxurious, represents the new generation of home seating chairs. This chair is offered in unique designs inspired by leading trends in fashion and art. It has become a true design icon, fitting seamlessly into home spaces and turning into an artistic piece that steals the spotlight without compromising on comfort.

The Bear Chair features distinctive contours and is handcrafted from luxurious textile fabric with external stitching that highlights its meticulous design. With a diameter of one meter, it comprises a molded, flexible seat with a base of iron that allows it to rotate 360 degrees.

The chair is available in over 45 types of colors and fabric textures, including cotton, leather, velvet, bouclé (a fabric with curly yarns and loops that create a textured weave), Bilbao, and stunning colorful prints.

Price: Starting at NIS 11,500.

Quality Viewing is Crucial


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For those looking to upgrade their viewing experience, or who want to utilize a white wall at home or in the garden to transform the regular TV screen into a giant screen suitable for multiple viewers, Philips offers a new NeoPix 730 projector through the importer Bikonnect. It promises to provide the ultimate viewing and screening experience.

The game can be viewed on a giant 120-inch screen with a cinematic experience and the option to connect all devices, including Amazon Fire Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, laptops, and smartphones. Of course, you can connect your TV provider’s set-top box.

The projector will turn the living room or any other room in the house into a private home theater and provide an enhanced viewing experience for the game. The projector has powerful built-in speakers that allow enjoying high-quality sound and significant bass. With the powerful 2.1 audio system that includes two speakers and a subwoofer, it creates a cinematic experience.

Price: NIS 2,349.

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Fans planning to watch the games at home on the TV screen but still want to feel as if they are at the stadium are advised to choose sound projectors that connect to the screen and provide an immersive and powerful cinematic experience. The importer Bikonnect offers a sound projector with a wired subwoofer from Blaupunkt model BP-5200.

The projector can connect to a variety of playback devices such as TVs, players, mobile phones, computers, USB flash drives, and more through Optical, AUX, Line In, Bluetooth, USB connections.

The projector comes with a powerful 6.5″ wired subwoofer and can be hung on the wall using a dedicated bracket. Price: NIS 499.

Meat, Friends, Meat

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Watching football together with friends or family cannot be complete without a barbecue evening. The Weber brand offers a smart gas grill model GENESIS EPX-435 from the GENESIS premium series by WEBER with Weber Connect technology. It connects to the app via Bluetooth and allows users to receive real-time notifications on food temperature directly to their phone, enabling them to track the grilling process precisely to the desired and perfect result.

Additionally, you can choose the desired level of doneness, receive an alert when to turn the meat, when the dish reaches the set temperature, and also set a timer showing food readiness and estimated cooking time. Moreover, the grill is equipped with "NIGHTVISION" LED lighting that illuminates the entire grill surface as well as the knobs themselves for convenient use at all hours of the day.

The gas grill has four stainless steel burners and an additional sear burner, alongside a side burner for frying, boiling water, or heating sauces. It also features a dual, expandable upper rack for heating or grilling additional cuts, an extra-large side shelf for food preparation and serving, and 6 hooks for grilling tools. It has a total heat output of 72,000 BTU and a main grilling area size of 4,168 square cm.

Dimensions (lid closed): Height - 123.19 cm, Width - 173.99 cm, Depth - 38.58 cm. Recommended Retail Price: NIS 10,490.