Folk paper cut-outs, national colors and a reference to the Orange Revolution - UEFA president Michel Platini unveiled the official logo of the EURO 2012 Football Championships to be co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine.
Danuta Isler reports
The presentation came a few days after the European Football Governing Body confirmed that the event will take place as previously scheduled in four Polish and four Ukrainian cities.
The design was formally unwrapped at a ceremony in Kyiv's Mykhailivska Square during an event which also witnessed the first public outing of the slogan chosen for the competition "Creating history together". The ceremony was attended by President of the Polish Football Association PZPN, Grzegorz Lato, his Ukrainian counterpart Grigoriy Surkis and representatives from the eight host cities: Gdansk, Warsaw, Poznan, Wroclaw, Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Kyiv as well as hundreds of the city's inhabitants. The design - a tree with two branches in both countries' national colors and a football above them - makes an obvious reference to the host cities and their national heritage.