EURO 2008 INFO

Herbert Hainer (Executive Director of adidas AG) handed the ball background silver with black spots to the Uefa president, Michel Platini. The ball "EUROPASS glory" has been produced especially for the most important game of the European Football Championships of the Uefa will be used exclusively in the finals of the Uefa Euro 2008 ™ in Vienna on June 29, 2008.
 

Based on the Henri Delaunay Cup, the ball "EUROPASS glory" shining silver and, like the "Europass", has twelve black spots, which will provide a modern design and traditional turn. The addition of "glory" in the name of the ball represents the glory and honor, values that will be the winners of the Uefa Euro 2008 ™.
 

The name "Europass" symbolizes the passport "European" common between the two countries organizers: Austria and Switzerland. However, it also represents each pass that players make in the field during the Uefa Euro 2008 ™. And last but not least, represents the interaction among all followers to be put into road to Switzerland or Austria.
 

The flags of Austria and Switzerland have been integrated through eight white circles in the design of the silver ball. In the Deuces see black spots on the one hand, the Henri Delaunay Cup and on the other graphic elements typical of every nation that since the inception of the European Football Championships of the Uefa, returned home as winners with the Henri Delaunay Cup in their hands.
 

Like the "Europass" and + TeamgeistTM, official ball of the Fifa World 2006, the adidas "EUROPASS glory" is also formed by fourteen panels together by the revolutionary technology termosoldadura. In combination with the new external structure, PSC-Texture ™, "EUROPASS glory" presents a perfect flight properties and offers players an exceptional control over the ball. This skin allows a single foreign forces better transmission, more and more precisely cut, all in any weather condition can occur in the countryside.
 

The ball adidas "EUROPASS glory" is now available in sporting goods stores.
 

The experience of adidas in the production of footballs is unrivalled across the globe. adidas launched its production in 1963 and today is the world leader in the manufacture of footballs most modern and innovative. Since 1970, adidas designs the official ball of all major tournaments of the Uefa, the Fife and, since 2008, also the African Cup of Nations Confederation of African Football (CAF).
 

In the future, adidas will continue to use innovative technologies to expand its role as a global pioneer in the field of football. Thus, adidas strengthen its position as the authentic symbol of high-performance sporting goods, both for professional and amateur. In addition, adidas plans to submit in the future other revolutionary innovations in the balls for the tournaments of the Uefa, Fifa and CAF.