Precisely six days from now will start the 2012 European Football Championship, co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine.
And before I talk a bit about the history of each selection, I will give some insight that probably will be known by many people.
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| The offical logo of EURO 2012 |
Between June 8th and July 1st will be made the 16th European Football Championship, being hosted first time by both Poland and Ukraine. The decision was taken on April 18th 2007.
There are 14 countries that, together with the hosts after the qualification round with 51 countries, came out winners and will fight for victory. Theses countries were divided on four groups in 2 December 2011 at the Ukraine Palace of Arts in Kiev, Ukraine, after the 16 finalists were divided by 4 pots.
From each finalist was chosen a referee, 3 assistant referees and two aditional assistant refrees.
And now, let me talk about some symbols of this championship.
LOGO and SLOGAN
The logo (seen in the begining of this message), and the slogan "Creating History Together", were announced together. The slogan refers to the common past of both countries, when they were a single country, and the desire of both countries provide one of the best championships ever.
As for the logo, was reveled in December of 2009, in an event at Mykhailivska Square, Kiev. Was based on Wycinanki or Vytynanky, a traditional way of cutting paper, practised in some rural areas of Poland and Ukarine: so, this form of art, represents the rural areas of both countries.
MASCOTS
The official mascots of this championship are the twins, Slavek and Slavko, designed by Warner Bros: one of them represent the polish footballers, and the other the ukranian, with the respective natinal colours. These mascots were offically announced in December 2010, after a public web voting.
The name Slavko isn't polish, because the polish alphabet hasn't the "v" letter. But UEFA decided to not use english names on the mascots.
TROPHY
Inspired on Henri Delaunay (1883 - 1955), a french football administrator that, afetr being football player and referee, was later the president of Étoile des Deux Lacs, then secretary-general of the Comité français interfédéral (CFI), the ancestor of the French Football Federatio (when the CFI became the French Football Federation in 1919, he remained as secretary-general), and considered the responsible for the creation of the European Football Championship, the trophy started a journey through the host cities seven weeks before the start of the tournament. A hundred days before the first match a 35.5-metre-high (116 ft) hot air balloon in the shape of the trophy was flown in Nyon, Switzerland and will visit 14 cities throughout the host countries, reminding spectators of the impending tournament.
Due to the affluence of a large crowd during the days of the championship in both countries there were huge changes in terms of infrastructure, transport and communications network.
And of course, from the beginning there were problems and tensions associated with racism, antisemitism, hooliganism, animal cruelty and terrorist threats.
MUSIC
And now I leave you with the official song of the EURO2012, "Endeless Sumeer", sung by the German Singer, Oceana.
The official Polish song is "Koko Euro Spoko", sung by the folk band Jarzębina.
In Ireland was also produced a song named "The Rocky Road to Poland" recorded by a collaboration of Irish performers, thar was already reached number 1 in Ireland.
There are 14 countries that, together with the hosts after the qualification round with 51 countries, came out winners and will fight for victory. Theses countries were divided on four groups in 2 December 2011 at the Ukraine Palace of Arts in Kiev, Ukraine, after the 16 finalists were divided by 4 pots.
From each finalist was chosen a referee, 3 assistant referees and two aditional assistant refrees.
And now, let me talk about some symbols of this championship.
LOGO and SLOGAN
The logo (seen in the begining of this message), and the slogan "Creating History Together", were announced together. The slogan refers to the common past of both countries, when they were a single country, and the desire of both countries provide one of the best championships ever.
As for the logo, was reveled in December of 2009, in an event at Mykhailivska Square, Kiev. Was based on Wycinanki or Vytynanky, a traditional way of cutting paper, practised in some rural areas of Poland and Ukarine: so, this form of art, represents the rural areas of both countries.
MASCOTS
The official mascots of this championship are the twins, Slavek and Slavko, designed by Warner Bros: one of them represent the polish footballers, and the other the ukranian, with the respective natinal colours. These mascots were offically announced in December 2010, after a public web voting.
The name Slavko isn't polish, because the polish alphabet hasn't the "v" letter. But UEFA decided to not use english names on the mascots.
TROPHY
Inspired on Henri Delaunay (1883 - 1955), a french football administrator that, afetr being football player and referee, was later the president of Étoile des Deux Lacs, then secretary-general of the Comité français interfédéral (CFI), the ancestor of the French Football Federatio (when the CFI became the French Football Federation in 1919, he remained as secretary-general), and considered the responsible for the creation of the European Football Championship, the trophy started a journey through the host cities seven weeks before the start of the tournament. A hundred days before the first match a 35.5-metre-high (116 ft) hot air balloon in the shape of the trophy was flown in Nyon, Switzerland and will visit 14 cities throughout the host countries, reminding spectators of the impending tournament.
Due to the affluence of a large crowd during the days of the championship in both countries there were huge changes in terms of infrastructure, transport and communications network.
And of course, from the beginning there were problems and tensions associated with racism, antisemitism, hooliganism, animal cruelty and terrorist threats.
MUSIC
And now I leave you with the official song of the EURO2012, "Endeless Sumeer", sung by the German Singer, Oceana.
The official Polish song is "Koko Euro Spoko", sung by the folk band Jarzębina.
In Ireland was also produced a song named "The Rocky Road to Poland" recorded by a collaboration of Irish performers, thar was already reached number 1 in Ireland.
In the next posts, I will analyze each selection in this championship.
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