adidas Beau Jeu Euro16 OMB

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None of these properties would be achievable without chemistry providing the materials required, so here’s a breakdown of the different types of polymers used in each component part of the ball.

Simply meaning ‘Play beautiful’ in French, the Beau Jeu is a retelling of the beloved 2014 Brazuca World Cup match ball. In the new format, however, the four best third-ranked sides also progressed, leaving 16 teams going into the new round of 16 knockout phase (ahead of the usual quarter-finals, semi-finals and final), and only eight teams going out after the group stage. The group winners, runners-up, and the best third-placed team (with the results against the sixth-placed team discarded) qualify directly for the final tournament. Police carried out a controlled explosion on a package left near the stadium complex, while fans set litter bins alight. Behind the bold, black brush strokes and flashes of light is a seamless 100% polyester cover, thermally bonded around a synthetic rubber bladder, and finished in a "hi-white" material allowing for increased visibility on the pitch.Two minutes later, Coman passed the ball to Giroud in the Portugal box who struck it low but his shot was saved by Rui Patrício. Under the new format, the finalists contested a group stage consisting of six groups of four teams, followed by a knockout phase including three rounds and the final. The 31-year-old Real Madrid superstar carried his country's hopes into the final against hosts France in Paris not only as Portugal's captain but also the player who posed the greatest threat to Didier Deschamps' side.

The final was the seventh match played in the stadium at Euro 2016, which included the tournament's opening game between France and Romania. Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Notícias suggested the victory was "the greatest moment in the history of Portuguese football", [59] and A Bola announced every Portugal player to be a "hero". Asked about its meaning, Jacques Lambert, chairman of the Euro 2016 organising committee, told that the slogan "is much more than a reminder of dates (.Nani's mis-hit cross was pushed away by Lloris before he caught Quaresma's subsequent overhead kick. The day before the tournament, fighting broke out between local youths and England fans in Marseille; police dispersed the local youths with tear gas. The 1984 European Championship in France was the first major tournament to showcase a wholly non-leather ball, and two years later, the first such synthetic World Cup ball – the Azteca México – was deployed at the finals.