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UEFA vice-president: Terror could force closed-door Euro matches

A senior European football official has warned that an ongoing terror threat could disrupt the upcoming UEFA Euro 2016 competition -- even forcing matches to be played behind closed doors.

Speaking in the wake of Tuesday's deadly attacks in Brussels, UEFA Vice-President Giancarlo Abete told an Italian radio station that football authorities "can't exclude the possibility of playing behind closed doors as we cannot exclude terrorism."

The attacks come with the memory of November's attack in Paris still fresh in many people's minds. Those attacks caused one death and several injuries outside the Stade de France during a France-Germany match, among other targets.