The official logo, visual identity and slogan for UEFA EURO 2012™ have been unveiled at a special event in Kyiv’s Mykhailivska Square with co-hosts Ukraine and Poland looking forward to ‘Creating History Together’.
Star guests
Polish Football Association President Grzegorz Lato, his Football Federation of Ukraine counterpart Grigoriy Surkis and UEFA President Michel Platini officially unwrapped the logo as the highlight of the launch proceedings. The ceremony was attended by the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, representatives from the eight host cities – Gdansk, Warsaw, Poznan, Wroclaw, Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Kyiv – and numerous other dignitaries.
Visual identity
The purpose of the logo is to give UEFA EURO 2012™ a personality of its own, with the visual identity to be applied across a range of promotional applications from tickets to web banners. The objective is to help promote the tournament – one of the world’s biggest sporting events – by providing an easily recognisable identity with a flavour of the host nations. The logo takes its visual lead from ‘wycinanka’, the traditional art of paper cutting practised in rural areas of Poland and Ukraine, as a tribute to the fauna and flora of the region. (read more…)
Ukraine’s preparations to co-host the European Football Championship in 2012 have fallen badly behind schedule.
Uefa, Europe’s football governing body, has given the country until 30 November to show significant improvement, or face losing most of the matches to the co-hosts, Poland.
In the eastern city of Donetsk, people are riding high on a tide of football fever.
In May their team, Shakhtar, won the Uefa cup. Thousands came out onto the streets to celebrate and welcome the players home.
The crowd seemed oblivious to the brooding presence of a massive bronze Lenin watching over the proceedings – a reminder of Ukraine’s Soviet past.
Wroclaw Euro 2012 stadium presentation. Here’s how it will look like:
Advantages of Wroclaw stadium:
Excellent location near Wroclaw new ring road highway.
Convenient access to the city center and airport.
About 7 thousand parking spots near the stadium.
Stadium capacity of 42 thousand people.
Rehabilitation center, fitness and spa club, casino, the disco pubs and many restaurants.
In Gdansk the company to complete the first stage of groundwork at the construction of the Euro 2012 stadium was chosen. The works are to set off in December 2008 and last for six months.
The Tender Commission of the company BIEG 2012, after a detailed analysis of the provided documents, chose the contractor to execute the groundwork and land reclamation works. Among the seven offers, the most advantageous one turned out to be that of the Wakoz company, informed the spokesman of the supervising company at the Gdansk stadium construction, Michał Kruszyński.
He addend, that the company had declared it would finalize the contract within six months for the charge of 102 million Zlotys net. The same company is responsible for the preparatory ground works at the stadium construction site in Wroclaw.
The Baltic Arena (Polish: Arena Bałtycka) is a multi-use stadium in Gdańsk’s Letnica neighborhood, Poland, which is going to be constructed for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship. The stadiums’ exterior is designed to resemble amber; which has long been extracted on the Baltic coast. Construction started in 2008. Once completed in 2010, it will be used mostly for football matches. The stadium will have a capacity of 44,000 people.
I uploaded this video to Youtube as I consider this very important for our country. If we do not get ready for European Union and for Euro 2012, nobody will welcome us there. Look at this unnatural cruelty. Is this fair for the young girl.
I publish this under Proud to Be Ukrainian, but it should be Shame for Being Ukrainian under this context.
What is unique in our country. I think human relationships here are great. People are caring and hospitable. We have to pay much attention to preserving this spirit, or we are banned.
Look at this video and feel free to comment. I would be glad to hear your thoughts.
It is reported that Apple considers taking legal steps against Polish Football Association for alleged copyright infringment. Apple asserts that a presentation used by Polish – Ukraine Euro 2012 team at Cardiff to present the joint offer of these two countreis infringes a copyrighted iPod commercial. There is no doubt that the clips below are similar and the author of “football” one was inspired by iPod ad. As to the infringment .. please judge by yourself. In my opinion it’s just the inspiration, following the general idea , therefore it can’t be considered as copyright infringment.
Generally, Apple has many ‘copyright’ troubles with Poles recently – please read the story
of Tomasz Rychlicki who published at his blog the alternative set of iPhone icons.
The official logo, visual identity and slogan for UEFA EURO 2012™ have been unveiled at a special event in Kyiv’s Mykhailivska Square with co-hosts Ukraine and Poland looking forward to ‘Creating History Together’.
