UEFA Euro 2016Championnat d’Europe de football 2016
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Reading: UEFA Euro 2016
Le Rendez-VousTournament detailsHost countryFranceDates10 June – 10 JulyTeams24Venue(s)10 (in 10 host cities)Final positionsChampions
Portugal ( 1st title )Runners-up
FranceTournament statisticsMatches played51Goals scored108 (2.12 per match)Attendance2,427,303 (47,594 per match)Top scorer(s)Antoine Griezmann ( 6 goals )[1]Best player(s)[2]Best young playerRenato Sanches[3]2012 2020 → International football rival
The 2016 UEFA European Football Championship, normally referred to as UEFA Euro 2016 ( stylised as UEFA EURO 2016 ) or merely Euro 2016, was the fifteenth UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial external men ‘s football championship of Europe organised by UEFA. It was held in France from 10 June to 10 July 2016. [ 5 ] Spain were the two-time defend champions, having won the 2008 and 2012 tournaments, but were eliminated in the round of 16 by Italy. Portugal won the tournament for the first prison term, following a 1–0 victory after extra time over the host team, France, in the concluding play at the Stade de France. For the first gear time, the European Championship final tournament was contested by 24 teams, having been expanded from the 16-team format used since 1996. [ 6 ] Under the new format, the finalists contested a group stage consisting of six groups of four teams, followed by a smasher phase including three rounds and the final examination. nineteen teams – the top two from each of the nine qualifying groups and the best third-placed team – joined France in the final tournament, who qualified automatically as host ; a series of two-legged play-off ties between the remaining third-placed teams in November 2015 decided the last four finalist spots. France was chosen as the master of ceremonies state on 28 May 2010, after a wish summons in which they beat Italy and Turkey for the right to host the 2016 finals. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The matches were played in ten stadiums in ten-spot cities : Bordeaux, Lens, Lille Métropole, Décines-Charpieu, Marseille, Nice, Paris, Saint-Denis, Saint-Étienne, and Toulouse. It was the third gear clock that France hosted the finals, after the inaugural address tournament in 1960 and the 1984 finals. As the winners, Portugal earned the right to compete at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia. [ 9 ]
Bid process [edit ]
Four bids came before the deadline on 9 March 2009. France, Italy and Turkey put in single bids while Norway and Sweden put in a joint offer. [ 10 ] Norway and Sweden finally withdrew their bid in December 2009. [ 11 ] The server was selected on 28 May 2010. [ 12 ]
Voting results[13]
Country
Round
1st (points)
2nd (votes)
43
7
38
6
23
–
Total
104
13
- Round 1: Each of the thirteen members of the UEFA Executive Committee ranked the 3 bids first, second, and third. First place ranking received 5 points, second place 2 points, and third place 1 point. Executive members from the countries bidding were not allowed to vote.
- Round 2: The same thirteen-member committee voted for either of the two finalists.
qualification [edit ]
Team qualified for UEFA Euro 2016
Team failed to qualify The qualifying draw took place at the Palais des Congrès Acropolis in Nice, on 23 February 2014, [ 5 ] with the beginning matches being played in September 2014. 53 teams competed for 23 places in the concluding tournament to join France, who mechanically qualified as hosts. Gibraltar competed in a european Championship qualifying for the first time since their affiliation to UEFA in 2013. The seeding pots were formed on the basis of the UEFA national team coefficients, with the Euro 2012 champions Spain and hosts France automatically lead seeded. The 53 national sides were drawn into eight groups of six teams and one group of five teams. The group winners, runner-up, and the best third-placed team ( with the results against the sixth-placed team discarded ) qualify directly for the final tournament. The remaining eight third-placed teams contested two-legged play-offs to determine the last four qualifiers. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] In March 2012, Gianni Infantino, the UEFA general secretary at the fourth dimension, stated that UEFA would review the qualification competition to ensure that it was not “ bore ”. [ 17 ] In September 2011, during UEFA ‘s first full strategy meet, Michel Platini proposed a reservation format involving two group stages, but the member associations did not accept the proposal. [ 18 ] In May 2013, Platini confirmed a exchangeable qualify format would be again discussed during the September 2013 UEFA executive committee meet in Dubrovnik. [ 19 ]
Qualified teams [edit ]
thirteen of the sixteen teams ( including hosts France ) that qualified for Euro 2012 qualified again for the 2016 final tournament. Among them were England, who became only the sixth team to record a flawless qualify political campaign ( 10 wins in 10 matches ), [ 20 ] defending european champions Spain, and earth champions Germany, who qualified for their 12th straight european Championship finals. [ 21 ] Romania, Turkey, Austria and Switzerland all returned after missing out in 2012, with the Austrians qualifying for barely their second final Euro tournament, after having co-hosted Euro 2008. [ 22 ] Returning to the concluding tournament after long absences were Belgium for the first time since co-hosting Euro 2000, and Hungary for the first meter in 44 years, having final appeared at Euro 1972, and 30 years since appearing in a major tournament, their previous one being the 1986 FIFA World Cup. Five teams secured their first reservation to a UEFA european Championship final examination tournament : Albania, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Slovakia and Wales. [ 22 ] Northern Ireland, Slovakia and Wales had each previously competed in the FIFA World Cup, while Albania and Iceland had never participated in a major tournament. [ 22 ] similarly, both Austria and Ukraine completed successful reservation campaigns for the first time, having only previously qualified as hosts ( of 2008 and 2012 respectively ). Scotland were the lone team from the british Isles not to qualify for the finals, [ 23 ] and it besides marked the first meter that both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland qualified for the same major tournament finals. [ 24 ] Greece, champions in 2004, finished penetrate in their group and failed to qualify for the first base time since 2000. Two other previous champions, the Netherlands ( 1988 ) and Denmark ( 1992 ), missed out on the finals. The dutch team failed to qualify for the first time since Euro 1984 ( besides held in France ), missing out on their foremost major tournament since the 2002 FIFA World Cup and only 16 months after having finished third at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. [ 25 ] Denmark did not appear at the Euro finals for the first clock since 2008, after losing in the play-off round off against Sweden .
Final trace [edit ]
The draw for the finals took seat at the Palais des Congrès de la Porte Maillot in Paris on 12 December 2015, 18:00 CET. [ 5 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The 24 qualify teams were drawn into six groups of four teams, with the hosts France being automatically placed in side A1. The remaining teams were seeded into four pots of five ( Pot 1 ) or six teams ( Pots 2, 3 and 4 ). As the title holders, Spain were seeded in Pot 1, while the other 22 teams were seeded according to the UEFA national team coefficients updated after the completion of the qualifying group stagecoach ( excluding the play-offs ), which were released by UEFA on 14 October 2015. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ]
- ^ Hosts France ( coefficient 33,599 ; rank 8th ) were automatically assigned to put A1 .
- ^ Defending champions Spain ( coefficient 37,962 ; rank 2nd ) were mechanically assigned to Pot 1 .
Teams were drawn consecutively into Group A to F. First, the Pot 1 teams were assigned to the beginning positions of their groups, while following the positions of all other teams were drawn individually from Pot 4 to 2 ( for the purposes of determining the match schedules in each group ). The draw resulted in the play along groups :
Venues [edit ]
Ten stadiums were used for the contest. Initially, twelve stadiums were presented for the french bid, chosen on 28 May 2010. These venues were to be whittled down to nine by the end of May 2011, but it was suggested in June 2011 that football team venues might be used. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] The french Football Federation had to choose which nine would actually be used. The option for the beginning seven was undisputed – the national Stade de France, four newly constructed ones in Lille Metropole ( Villeneuve-d’Ascq ), Décines-Charpieu ( Lyon Metropolis ), Nice and Bordeaux, and two stadiums in the two largest cities, Paris and Marseille. After Strasbourg opted out for fiscal reasons following delegating, [ 34 ] two more venues were selected to be Lens and Nancy, leaving Saint-Étienne and Toulouse as substitute options. In June 2011, the count of host venues was increased to eleven ascribable to the new tournament format featuring 24 teams, rather of the previous 16. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] The decision meant that the substitute cities of Toulouse and Saint-Étienne joined the list of hosts. then, in December 2011, Nancy announced its secession from the tournament, after plans for the stadium ‘s renovation were cancelled, [ 37 ] finalising the list of server venues at ten. Two early possible options, the Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes and the Stade de la Mosson in Montpellier ( venues which were used for the 1998 World Cup ) were not chosen. The final number was confirmed by the UEFA Executive Committee on 25 January 2013. [ 38 ] Capacity figures are those for matches at UEFA Euro 2016 and are not necessarily the total capacity that the venues are adequate to of holding .
team base camps [edit ]
Each team had a “ team base camp ” for its stay between the matches. The teams trained and resided in these locations throughout the tournament, travelling to games staged off from their bases. From an initial list of 66 bases, the 24 participating teams had to confirm their choice with UEFA by 31 January 2016. [ 39 ] The selected team base camps were announced on 2 March 2016 : [ 40 ]
Finals format [edit ]
To accommodate the expansion from a 16-team finals tournament to 24 teams, the format was changed from that used in 2012 with the addition of two extra groups in the group stagecoach, and an supernumerary round in the knockout phases. The six groups ( A to F ) hush contained four teams each, with the top two from each group still going through to the smasher phase. In the fresh format, however, the four best third-ranked sides besides build up, leaving 16 teams going into the new round-of-16 hard phases, ahead of the common quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, and only 8 teams going out at the group phase. [ 17 ] The format is precisely the one that was applied to the 1986, 1990, and 1994 FIFA World Cups, except for the absence of a third stead play-off. This format generates a full of 51 matches, compared with 31 matches for the former 16-team tournament, to be played over a period of 31 days. UEFA ‘s general secretary Gianni Infantino previously described the format as “ not ideal ” due to the want for third-ranked teams in the group phase gain, leading to difficulty in preventing situations where teams might be able to know in advance what results they need to progress out of the group, leading to a miss of suspense for fans, or even the expectation of mutually beneficial connivance between teams. [ 17 ]
Squads [edit ]
Each national team had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers, at least ten days before the open match of the tournament. [ 41 ] If a player became hurt or ill sternly enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team ‘s first match, he would be replaced by another player. [ 16 ]
match officials [edit ]
On 15 December 2015, UEFA named eighteen referees for Euro 2016. [ 42 ] The full referee teams were announced on 1 March 2016. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] England was the only state to have two referees in the tournament. hungarian referee Viktor Kassai was chosen to officiate the opener between France and Romania. [ 45 ] English referee Mark Clattenburg was chosen to officiate the final between Portugal and France. [ 46 ]
- ^[47] Anton Averyanov was replaced by Nikolai Golubev after failing a fitness screen .
- ^[48] Martin Wilczek was replaced by Tomáš Mokrusch after failing a fitness test .
- ^[49] Luca Banti was replaced by Daniele Orsato after withdrawing for personal reasons .
Two match officials, who serve only as fourth officials, and two substitute adjunct referees were besides named : [ 43 ]
Country
Fourth official
Reserve assistant referee
Belarus
Aleksei Kulbakov
Vitali Maliutsin
Greece
Anastasios Sidiropoulos
Damianos Efthymiadis
Opening ceremony [edit ]
The afford ceremony An hour before the inaugural equal at the Stade de France on 10 June 2016, 20:00 CEST, the open ceremony of the tournament was held. The ceremony featuring 600 dancers, 150 of which were involved in a traditional french dance before and uptempo version of La Vie en rose by french singer Édith Piaf was played. Following this, french DJ David Guetta took to the degree, he performed shorten interpretation of some of his hits before he was joined on stage by swedish singer Zara Larsson to perform the official birdcall of the tournament “ This One ‘s for You “ .
The ceremony ended with a fly over from the Patrouille Acrobatique de France of the french Air Force, trailing the french blue, egg white, and red. The ceremony besides featured a tribute to the victims of the November 2015 Paris attacks. Following the ceremony, the hosts France beat Romania 2-1 in the opening plot of the tournament. [ 51 ] [ 52 ]
Group stage [edit ]
Winner
runner-up
Semi-finals
Quarter-finals
Round of 16
Group stage result of teams participating in UEFA Euro 2016 UEFA announced the tournament schedule on 25 April 2014, [ 53 ] [ 54 ] which was confirmed on 12 December 2015, after the final examination withdraw. [ 55 ] Group winners, runner-up, and the best four third-placed teams advanced to the Round of 16. All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
Read more: France national football team
Tiebreakers [edit ]
If two or more teams were adequate on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria would be applied : [ 16 ]
- Higher number of points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
- Superior goal difference resulting from the matches played between the teams in question;
- Higher number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
- If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still had an equal ranking (e.g. if criteria 1 to 3 were applied to three teams that were level on points initially and these criteria separated one team from the other two who still have an equal ranking), criteria 1 to 3 would be reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams who were still level to determine their final rankings. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 would apply;
- Superior goal difference in all group matches;
- Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
- If only two teams had the same number of points, and they were tied according to criteria 1–6 after having met in the last round of the group stage, their ranking would be determined by a penalty shoot-out. (This criterion would not be used if more than two teams had the same number of points.);
- Fair play conduct (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card);
- Position in the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system.
Group A [edit ]
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
1
France ( H )
3
2
1
0
4
1
+3
7
Advance to knockout phase
2
Switzerland
3
1
2
0
2
1
+1
5
3
Albania
3
1
0
2
1
3
−2
3
4
Romania
3
0
1
2
2
4
−2
1
( H ) Host source : UEFA host
Group B [edit ]
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
1
Wales
3
2
0
1
6
3
+3
6
Advance to knockout phase
2
England
3
1
2
0
3
2
+1
5
3
Slovakia
3
1
1
1
3
3
0
4
4
Russia
3
0
1
2
2
6
−4
1
Group C [edit ]
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
1
Germany
3
2
1
0
3
0
+3
7[a]
Advance to knockout phase
2
Poland
3
2
1
0
2
0
+2
7[a]
3
Northern Ireland
3
1
0
2
2
2
0
3
4
Ukraine
3
0
0
3
0
5
−5
0
- a b Tied on neck and neck result ( Germany 0–0 Poland ). overall finish difference was used as the tiebreaker .
Group D [edit ]
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
1
Croatia
3
2
1
0
5
3
+2
7
Advance to knockout phase
2
Spain
3
2
0
1
5
2
+3
6
3
Turkey
3
1
0
2
2
4
−2
3
4
Czech Republic
3
0
1
2
2
5
−3
1
Group E [edit ]
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
1
Italy
3
2
0
1
3
1
+2
6[a]
Advance to knockout phase
2
Belgium
3
2
0
1
4
2
+2
6[a]
3
Republic of Ireland
3
1
1
1
2
4
−2
4
4
Sweden
3
0
1
2
1
3
−2
1
- a b tete-a-tete solution : belgium 0–2 Italy .
Group F [edit ]
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
1
Hungary
3
1
2
0
6
4
+2
5[a]
Advance to knockout phase
2
Iceland
3
1
2
0
4
3
+1
5[a]
3
Portugal
3
0
3
0
4
4
0
3
4
Austria
3
0
1
2
1
4
−3
1
- a b Tied on neck and neck solution ( Iceland 1–1 Hungary ). overall finish dispute was used as the tiebreaker .
Ranking of third-placed teams [edit ]
Pos
Grp
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification
1
B
Slovakia
3
1
1
1
3
3
0
4
Advance to knockout phase
2
E
Republic of Ireland
3
1
1
1
2
4
−2
4
3
F
Portugal
3
0
3
0
4
4
0
3
4
C
Northern Ireland
3
1
0
2
2
2
0
3
5
D
Turkey
3
1
0
2
2
4
−2
3
6
A
Albania
3
1
0
2
1
3
−2
3
Rules for classification: 1) Higher number of points obtained; 2) Superior goal difference; 3) Higher number of goals scored; 4) Fair play conduct; 5) Position in the source : UEFA Rules for classification : 1 ) Higher number of points obtained ; 2 ) Superior finish dispute ; 3 ) Higher number of goals scored ; 4 ) Fair play lead ; 5 ) place in the UEFA home team coefficient ranking system .
Knockout phase [edit ]
In the hard phase, excess time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary. [ 16 ] As with every tournament since UEFA Euro 1984, there was no third gear place play-off. All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
bracket [edit ]
Round of 16 [edit ]
final [edit ]
Statistics [edit ]
Goals [edit ]
There were 108 goals scored in 51 matches, for an average of 2.12 goals per catch. 6 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
reservoir : UEFA [ 107 ]
Awards [edit ]
PatrícioBoatengPepeKimmichGuerreiroKroosAllenGriezmannPayetRamseyRonaldo[108] UEFA Team of the tournament
- UEFA Team of the Tournament
The UEFA Technical Team was given the objective of naming a team of football team players during the tournament, a change from the 23-man squads in the by competitions. [ 108 ] The group of analysts watched every game before making the decision following the final. [ 108 ] Four players from the winning portuguese squad were named in the tournament. [ 108 ]
- Player of the Tournament
The Player of the Tournament award was given to Antoine Griezmann, who was chosen by UEFA ‘s technical observers, led by UEFA head technical military officer Ioan Lupescu and including Sir Alex Ferguson and Alain Giresse .
- Young Player of the Tournament
The Young Player of the Tournament award, capable to players born on or after 1 January 1994, was given to Renato Sanches who was named above Kingsley Coman and Portugal teammate Raphaël Guerreiro. The particular player, who deserved the prize, was besides chosen by UEFA ‘s technical observers .
- Golden Boot
The Golden Boot was awarded to Antoine Griezmann, who scored one goal in the group stagecoach and five in the hard phase .
- Silver Boot
The Silver Boot was awarded to Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored two goals in the group stage and one in the smasher phase, arsenic well as providing three assists .
- Bronze Boot
The Bronze Boot was awarded to Olivier Giroud, who scored one goal in the group stage and two in the smasher phase, arsenic good as providing two assists ; compatriot Dimitri Payet amassed the lapp match, but played 50 more minutes than Giroud .
- Goal of the Tournament
The Goal of the Tournament was decided by on-line vote. A sum 5 goals were in the shortlist. On 13 July 2016, after an open vote with over 150,000 entries, UEFA announced that hungarian midfielder Zoltán Gera ‘s finish against Portugal had been named as fans ‘ goal of the tournament. [ 109 ] In a separate poll, UEFA ‘s technical observers decided that Swiss winger Xherdan Shaqiri ‘s goal against Poland deserved top spot in their list of the ten best goals of the tournament. [ 110 ]
Prize money [edit ]
A total of €301 million was distributed to the 24 teams contesting in the tournament, a emergence from the €196 million payment in the precede event. Each team was rewarded €8 million, with further rewards depending on their performances. Portugal, the champions of the contest, were awarded €8 million in accession to any prize money earned in earlier rounds – the biggest choice attainable was €27 million ( for winning all group matches and the concluding ). [ 111 ] full moon tilt : [ 111 ]
- Prize for participating: €8 million
Extra payment based on team ‘s performance :
- Champions: €8 million
- Runners-up: €5 million
- Reaching the semi-finals: €4 million
- Reaching the quarter-finals: €2.5 million
- Reaching the round of 16: €1.5 million
- Winning a group match: €1 million
- Drawing a group match: €500,000
discipline [edit ]
A player was automatically suspended for the adjacent match for the surveil offences : [ 16 ]
- Receiving a red card (red card suspensions could be extended for serious offences)
- Receiving two yellow cards in two different matches; yellow cards expired after the completion of the quarter-finals (yellow card suspensions were not carried forward to any other future international matches)
The comply suspensions were served during the tournament : [ 112 ]
Issues [edit ]
Pre-tournament concerns included big flood of the River Seine in Paris, [ 113 ] and strikes in the transmit sector curtly before the beginning of the event. [ 114 ]
security [edit ]
Following the attacks on Paris on 13 November 2015, including one in which the mean aim was a crippled at the Stade de France, controversies about the safety of players and tourists during the approaching tournament arise. Noël Le Graët, president of the united states of the french Football Federation, explained that the concern for security had increased following the attacks. He claimed : “ there was already a concern for the Euros, nowadays it ‘s obviously a lot higher. We will continue to do everything we can therefore that security is assured despite all the risks that this entails. I know that everyone is argus-eyed. obviously, this means that we will now be even more argus-eyed. But it ‘s a permanent concern for the federation and the [ French ] state ”. [ 115 ] A “ fishy fomite ” near the Stade de France was destroyed by a police-mandated control explosion on 3 July, hours before the venue held the quarter-final between France and Iceland. [ 116 ]
vandalism [edit ]
The day before the tournament, fighting broke out between local anesthetic youths and England fans in Marseille ; police dispersed the local youths with pluck boast. On 10 June, english fans at Marseille clashed with patrol. [ 117 ] Six English fans were former arrested and sentenced to prison. [ 118 ] On 11 June, violent clashes erupted in the streets of the same city before and after the Group B match between England and Russia that ended in a 1–1 withdraw. [ 119 ] One English fan was reported to be critically ill in the hospital while dozens of others were injured in the clashes. [ 120 ] On 14 June, the russian team were given a suspend disqualification, fined €150,000, and warned that future ferocity would result in their removal from the cup. additionally, 50 russian fans were deported. The english team was besides warned about disqualification, but was not formally charged. [ 121 ] [ 122 ] Violence between English and russian fans arose again in Lille, where a total of 36 fans were arrested, and 16 people were hospitalised. [ 123 ] belated in the Group D equal between the Czech Republic and Croatia, flares were thrown onto the sales talk from where Croatia supporters were massed. The match was paused for several minutes while they were cleared up. There was besides fighting in the Croatia supporters ‘ area. [ 124 ] Later that like day, there was ferocity involving turkish fans after Turkey ‘s get the better of by Spain. As a result of these incidents and earlier crowd troubles after the countries ‘ first matches, UEFA launched official procedures against the croatian and turkish football federations. [ 125 ] The croatian federation was fined €100,000 for the incidents. [ 126 ]
Pitch quality [edit ]
The football pitches at french stadiums were criticised during the group phase for their hapless quality. France coach Didier Deschamps was specially critical. [ 127 ] [ 128 ] UEFA tournament director Martin Kallen blamed heavy rain for damaged turf, though the press speculated that non-football events may have besides been a contributor. [ 129 ] [ 130 ] The pitch at Lille received particular attention with players slipping endlessly and with groundsmen forced at halftime to try to repair the cut up pitch. [ 131 ] Despite UEFA applying numerous methods to rectify the problems, such as a ban on pre-match train on the peddle, use of fertilisers, seeding, mow, light therapy, drying and playing with the roof closed to avoid rain, it was decided that the gear at Lille had to be entirely replaced following the Italy–Republic of Ireland group match on 22 June. [ 132 ] The new cant was replaced with Dutch pot and was cook before the concluding sixteen match between Germany and Slovakia on 26 June. [ 133 ] [ 134 ] [ 135 ] UEFA besides stated that repair work was besides required at the St Denis and Marseille pitches. [ 136 ] This was the second time that a Euro championship pitch needed to be re-laid mid-tournament. The first base meter was the St. Jakob-Park in Basel during Euro 2008. [ 137 ] UEFA ‘s Leeds-based adviser Richard Hayden had come under criticism as it was reported he ordered local groundsmen to re-lay three pitches ( Lille, Nice, and Marseille ) with Slovak denounce, provided by an austrian company for an estimated €600,000 ( £460,000 ). On 22 June it was reported that France ‘s grass association officials had blamed Hayden for proceed problems with the pitches, citing “ it is amazing that it is only these pitches that have problems today ”. [ 138 ] The austrian manufacture of the turf, Richter, responded to the french eatage association officials by saying “ the turf for the stadiums in Lille and Marseille was delivered in top condition ” and that “ the turf placement and further care were handled by french companies and no one other than the french grounds-people had control over the grounds condition ”. [ 139 ] [ 140 ] In a affirmation, UEFA rejected the criticism against Hayden as baseless and stated they were satisfied with his work. [ 136 ]
Moths [edit ]
Before the final match started, the stadium was invaded by Silver Y moths, which caused some pique to the players, staff and coaches. The reason this occurred is because the workers at the stadium left the lights switched on the day before the peer which attracted huge swaths of insects. The players and coaches of each team during the warm-up tested swatting the moths, and ground staff used brushes to clean moths from the walls, ground and other places. [ 141 ] [ 142 ] One moth was infamously captured flying on and around Cristiano Ronaldo ‘s grimace when he was sitting on the pitch after being injured during the equal. [ 143 ]
marketing [edit ]
Video bet on [edit ]
The UEFA Euro 2016 television game was released by Konami as a loose DLC on Pro Evolution Soccer 2016. [ 144 ] [ 145 ] The DLC was available for existing Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 members on 24 March 2016 for major platforms ( PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows ). [ 146 ] The game was released physically and digitally on 21 April for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 users. [ 146 ]
Logo and slogan [edit ]
The official logo was unveiled on 26 June 2013, during a ceremony at the Pavillon Cambon Capucines in Paris. [ 147 ] Conceived by portuguese agency Brandia Central, which besides created the ocular identity for the previous european Championship, the design is based on the composition “ Celebrating the art of football ”. The logo depicts the Henri Delaunay Trophy with the blue, white and crimson color of the french flag, surrounded by a mix of shapes and lines representing different artistic movements and football elements. [ 148 ] On 17 October 2013, UEFA announced the official motto of the tournament : Le Rendez-Vous. Asked about its mean, Jacques Lambert, chair of the Euro 2016 organising committee, told that the motto “ is much more than a reminder of dates ( … ) and venues ”. He far explained that “ UEFA is sending out an invitation to football fans throughout the earth and to lovers of major events, an invitation to meet up and contribution the emotions of an elite-level tournament ”. [ 149 ]
Match balls [edit ]
For the first time in the tournament ‘s history, two official couple balls were used. [ 150 ] The Adidas Beau Jeu, used for the group degree, was unveiled on 12 November 2015 by early France player Zinedine Zidane. [ 151 ] During the tournament, the Adidas Fracas was introduced as the exclusive meet testis for the hard rounds. [ 150 ]
mascot [edit ]
The official mascot of the tournament, Super Victor, was unveiled on 18 November 2014. [ 152 ] He is a child superhero in the kit out of the France national football team, with a crimson cape at the back, to echo the color of the masthead of France. The cape, boots and ball are claimed to be the child ‘s superpowers. The mascot first appeared during the meet between France and Sweden at the Stade Vélodrome, Marseille on 18 November 2014. The name of the mascot was revealed on 30 November 2014 after receiving approximately 50,000 votes from the public on the official UEFA web site, beating the early name names of “ Driblou ” and “ Goalix ”. [ 153 ] It is based on the estimate of victory and references the son ‘s super powers that he gained when he found the magic cape, boots and ball. [ 154 ] The name of the mascot is the same as the appoint of a sex toy dog. UEFA said that this ‘coincidence ‘ was not their responsibility because the name was selected by winnow vote. [ 155 ]
official songs [edit ]
The rival ‘s official first step song was “ This One ‘s for You “ by David Guetta featuring Zara Larsson, and the official close birdcall was “ detached Your mind ” by Maya Lavelle. [ 156 ] [ 157 ] [ 158 ] It was reported that David Guetta sought one million fans to add their voices to the official anthem via a web site. [ 159 ]
Broadcasting [edit ]
The International Broadcast Centre ( IBC ) is located at the Paris exhibition Porte de Versailles in Paris ‘ 15th arrondissement. [ 5 ]
References [edit ]
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