The mascots for the Euro 2012 football championships to be co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine were officially unveiled Tuesday at a Warsaw ceremony attended by senior UEFA officials and the two national football federations.
Like Euro-2008 co-hosted by Austria and Switzerland which had their twins Trix and Flix, the 2012 mascot also features footballing brothers, each wearing a jersey in their national colours, white and red for Poland, blue and yellow for Ukraine.
As in the 2008 championship, the names of the mascot brothers will be decided in a vote open to the public on UEFA’s official website www.uefa.com. The result will be announced December 4.
Inspired by Polish and Ukrainian surnames, voters will be able to choose between Slavek and Slavko or Siemko and Strimko or Klemek and Ladko.
Warner Bros. designed the mascots, for the fourth consecutive championships.
Four stadiums in Poland — in Warsaw, Wroclaw, Poznan and Gdansk — and four in Ukraine, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Lviv will play host to Euro-2012.
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