Spain defeat Italy on penalties at Euro 2008

Trivia: Spain had lost a quarter-final at a major tournament on penalties on this exact date: June 22. Plus they had never before beaten Italy at either the World Cup or European Championships and on three previous occasions over the last 22 years.

EURO 2008 - Trivia.................Made in INDIA T-shirts for UEFA 2008

Udhay Shankar's Sree SantoshGarments Private Ltd. bagged the orders from a textile firm in UK for making 1.2 million t-shirts for the EURO Cup 2008.


Their past history:-
"In 1986, when Uday Shankar and his elder brother C. Chandramohan lost their jobs in a spinning mill, they started their own knitwear factory, with a meagre investment of Rs.100,000 and just four workers. Today the two brothers, both school dropouts, own a well-equipped spinning mill, dyeing and tailoring units and their company notched a turnover of Rs.966 million in the last fiscal."

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Beijing Olympic Medals

All the Olympic medals are 70mm in diameter and 6mm in thickness. The design is inspired by “bi” ", China's ancient jade piece inscribed with dragon pattern. In early China, “bi” was used for ritual purpose.

Cloud of Promise

In order to take the mileage from their branded Olympic touch, Lenovo has released the “Cloud of Promise” laptops and USB drives.

Olympics-branded Digital camera

In their last year to be the Olympic sponsor, as comapny says, Kodak has launched an Olympics-branded digital camera.

Barcelona, Chelsea join Bharti's club for football academy

Bharti Enterprises who along with AIFF is in the process of establishing a world-class football academy in Goa will now get support from some of the biggies like: FC Barcelona , Manchester United and Chelsea
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Euro 2008 ball

This ball is been constructed from a 14 panels using revolutionary thermal bonding technology which combined with the new PSC-Texture™ surface structure result into a perfect handling and thus allows the players good ball control.







EURO 2004
The ball at the last EURO was named adidas Roteiro after the log book used by Vasco da Gama, the famous Portuguese discoverer.

EURO 2000 Trivia

In EURO 2000
1) France won the championship by beating Italy 2- 1 through a David Trezeguet golden goal. This was the second consecutive Euro final decided by a golden goal after Germany beat Czech Republic 2-1 in 1996 thanks to a 95th minute Bierhoff goal.
2) It was the second Euro title for the French.
3) France became the second country in the history to win the World Cup and European championship in a row after Germany who won it in 1974 and 1972 respectively.
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Adidas names a line after Sania

Kolkata — After David Beckham, Germany’s iconic sports goods maker, the e10.3-billion Adidas Group, is poised to come up with an apparel and accessories collection named after glamourous tennis ace Sania Mirza.

Link: The Economic Times