"As police we have to be prepared because there's the potential risk of hooligans or violent people," Thuringia police spokesman Karsten Täschner told the outlet. "Today we use the chance to train for those circumstances, how to stop them, how to communicate with them, and also how to force them if they’ve done any trouble."

In March, it was reported that the United Kingdom had announced that over 1,600 people who had been banned from stadiums over hooligan-related behaviour would be forced to surrender their passports to prevent them from trying to visit Germany to support England.

German hooligans, on the other hand, are expected to be out in full force, wreaking havoc in the name of die Mannschaft.