Exactly one month before the opening game of the European Football Championship, the European Football Association Uefa and the local organizing committee in Munich are presenting the trophy that the winner of the tournament will receive: On Tuesday between 12 and 8 p.m. it will be on public display in the “Stadium of Dreams” at the Fat Cat cultural center, the former Gasteig. Admission is free.
Fans will have the opportunity to take photos with the Henri Delaunay Cup, named after the former UEFA general secretary who invented the competition. Munich is the last stop on the so-called Trophy Tour: the trophy has already been on display in the nine remaining European Championship venues.
On Monday, Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) was given an exclusive opportunity to take beautiful photos with the trophy. On the lawn of the arena in Fröttmaning, the venue for the start of the tournament between Germany and Scotland on June 14th, Söder was allowed to pose with the silver winner’s cup alongside the European Championship mascot Albärt. However, it will not be presented to the new European champion in Munich, but in Berlin: the final will take place there on July 14th.
On Monday, the challenge cup, which was redesigned and larger in 2008 by the London goldsmith Asprey, was passed around a bit in Munich: in front of the Ferris wheel in the Werksviertel, on the town hall balcony and in the Olympic Park, where the official fan zone will be during the tournament. The former referee Felix Brych handed over balls to Bavarian clubs as a local EM ambassador.
In the evening, the sterling silver trophy, which weighs eight kilograms and is 60 centimeters high, adorned a discussion session on the rooftop of the Bellevue di Monaco. Former world champions Paul Breitner (1974), Klaus Augenthaler (1990) and Philipp Lahm (2014), the current European Championship tournament director, were invited there to talk shop with Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD), among others.