EURO 2008 INFO

The organizers of the Euro-2008 announced Thursday in Bern that the sale of tickets was exceptional, at a ceremony on the outskirts of Bern, to 100 days from kick-off of the competition.

The director of the tournament, Martin Kallen, announced that "contrary to the 2004 edition held in Portugal, all tickets were sold very quickly."

"The demand is really exceptional and the sixteen federations concerned have not returned a single ticket," he rejoiced.

The opening ceremony, on June 7 in Basel, with a thousand extras, not to exceed ten minutes because "the important thing is the foremost Tekmo between Switzerland to the Czech Republic," said Martin Kallen .

The handing over of the Cup, on June 29 at Ernst-Happel Stadium in Vienna, will for the first time since 1996 in the grand stand, a position desired by Michel Platini, UEFA President.

The organizers presented the silver trophy Henri Delaunay journalists gathered in a tent in a parking lot at Wankdorf.

UEFA will present very soon the international song of the Euro-2008. It will be performed by an artist internationally known, it was said.