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The Official UEFA EURO 2008™ Website - euro2008.com

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Delivering complete event coverage to European football fans across
the globe
Produced by UEFA Media Technologies SA (UMET), the
official event website of UEFA EURO 2008™, euro2008.com has been
launched as part of a converged media offering for football fans. It
can be found at www.euro2008.com.
euro2008.com delivers comprehensive coverage of the tournament to
European football fans across the globe. The site is available in 10
languages - English, Portuguese, French, German, Spanish, Italian,
Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean - an increase of two languages
from UEFA EURO 2004™.
The site is the result of a converged approach towards production,
as UMET software solutions feed the host broadcast operations and
also the web. The host broadcast operations will be a source of
content for the web offering, and in turn, the web will be a source
of content for the television production operations.
euro2008.com will become the natural focus for fans seeking
official tournament news, squad announcements, injury updates and
venue and travel information such as detailed information on all
eight host cities, 3-D stadium maps, vodcast guides, journey planners
and detailed mapping solutions.
The April release - marking 50 days until the start of the final
tournament on 7 June - sees heavy emphasis on the history of the
competition. Fans can use the graphic timeline to access extensive
information on the 12 previous tournaments, including match reports
on all 173 final tournament matches since 1960 and profiles and
unique images of past winners and tournament stars.
The website will interlink video, audio text and photo content,
and will be a forum for user participation by giving users the chance
to leave comments and opinions on blogs and photo blogs as part of
the 'Fanzone' section. Users can also share and rate photos uploaded
to the site.
Users from around the world will be able to access
euro2008.com/mobile on their mobile devices.
Visitors to the site will be able to personalise their experience
online by drawing in official euro2008.com news feeds to their
personal page. There is also the capacity to push content onto
existing social network pages, and download widgets to enable content
taken from euro2008.com to be spread and shared across the internet.
euro2008.com also features a range of games provided by the
official tournament sponsors: visitors can play fantasy football,
tackle the video quiz challenge or vote for the goal of the day.
"The site offers multiple ways to experience UEFA EURO 2008™
around the key concepts of participation by the fans and
personalisation of the site for users," said David Farrelly, Head of
Web and Content at UEFA Media Technologies. "We will be inviting not
only more interaction and participation, but also a range of
possibilities for fans to customise the site according to their team,
their location or their main interests."
THE SITE IN NUMBERS
4 Locations
Euro2008.com will operate from four offices in the four different
countries during the Euro 2008 tournament.
1) International Broadcast centre in Vienna
2) Basel - base for the core editorial team
3) London - live commentary and logging services
4) Munich - organisation of mobile products throughout the
      tournament.
Satellite bureaus delivering the multilingual services will also
operate from Cologne, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Lisbon, Riga and Hong
Kong during the event.
10 Languages
English, Portuguese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian,
Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
37 Correspondents
As part of the Host Broadcasting Operations, 21 correspondents and
16 ENG crews will be located in close proximity to the 16 competing
teams, providing live reports and video interviews direct from the
stadiums and training camps.
130 Journalists/Technical staff
There will be 130 journalists/correspondents, editors, producers,
camera crews and interpreters on site, all help with content
delivery, and the integration of the interactive community and
personalised features.
30,000 Pages
30,000 individual pages will make up the site (excluding
statistics and data pages as these are too numerous to count)
Note to editors:
UEFA Media Technologies SA is the service company created by UEFA
to provide all technology solutions, content solutions and assistance
to ensure the development of European football, to explore and
exploit all opportunities in the new media world and to assist the
football family in their technology developments.
Issued by Fast Web Media on behalf of UEFA Media Technologies SA

Contact:

Rachel Pearse at Fast Web Media
Phone: +44/161/831'04'15
E-Mail: rachel.pearse@fastwebmedia.com

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