This seems to be the design for the new UEFA EURO 2012 match ball which will be officially unveiled on December 3.
“We will certainly make the ball (fly) faster and hopefully, we’ll see a lot of goals being scored at next year’s tournament in Poland and Ukraine,” Herbert Hainer told Reuters at a media briefing in Moscow last month.
The new Euro 2012 ball will undergo a “revolutionary development” compared to the famous Jabulani ball, which gave goalkeepers so much trouble at last year’s World Cup.
“As for Jabulani, we certainly underestimated high altitude, at which the tournament in South Africa was played,” Hainer said.
“As for the complaints from goalkeepers, as soon as the tournament started everyone was quiet because people were just enjoying watching the games. And in the Champions League we’ve seen no complaints at all.”
Hainer declined to unveil the name of the Euro 2012 ball, which will be officially presented at the draw ceremony for the finals in Kiev on Dec. 3, saying only that the ball will have a theme associated with both Poland and Ukraine.
thanks to MartinLeRoy
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Comments
sorry then, my God it's a mistake
then the standards should be altered in favor of the goalkeepers
i love the ball and this website so much! I LOVE EVERYTHING!
I remember as a kid, my local sports shops would stock the bog standard Mitre Delta, which would set you back a tenner, but the adidas Tango was a whopping 50 quid!!!
If memory serves me correctly, the Tango base design lasted from the '78 World Cup, all the way through to France '98. The Mexico '86 "Aztec" was probably my favourite.
This new design definitely looks like throw back to the Tango, much better than many of their recent efforts, although I do like the Champions League design....
...in a somewhat different way, but its a welcome return. No ball made before or since could match the Tango! The Telstar comes close but the Italia '90 Etrusco Unico, IMO was the greatest ball ever! Followed by the Terrestra Silversteam (Euro 2000).
I loved the Fevernova but only because it was different.
What?! Cant we just have one tournament with a bog-standard ball and just play some normal football? Even if the ball doesn't fly as fast as they say, all we're gonna hear form loosing teams is "we lost because of the ball". Argh!!!!!
would have preferred something totally different, and based on the pic above, seems like a lot more white space than the old tango and the like, but will probably grow on us between now and june!
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