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UEFA will use a different match ball for the knockout rounds at the European Championship.
It's not a punishment for the "Beau Jeu" ball which burst in the France-Switzerland game on Sunday.
UEFA says the switch was planned and follows a marketing plan for the Champions League where a new ball design is unveiled for the competition's later stages.
Ball maker Adidas revealed on Tuesday the design of the "Fracas" ball which teams will use when the round of 16 kicks off Saturday.
Rory McIlroy is flying in to watch his home country Northern Ireland in a European Championship game against Germany later Tuesday.
The former No. 1 golfer has posted a photograph on his Twitter account of himself and a group of five friends boarding a private airplane.
McIlroy, who is from Holywood near Belfast, tweets "See ya soon Paris!!" He adds the hashtag with the acronym 'GAWA,' for the Northern Ireland fans' label "Green and White Army."
He is wearing a white t-shirt with the face of George Best, the late and iconic Northern Ireland and Manchester United winger.
Playing at its first major tournament in 30 years, Northern Ireland could advance to the round of 16 even if it loses at Parc des Princes today.
A Russian fan group leader is being kicked out of France again, days after he was deported for alleged involvement in hooliganism and slipped back in to the country illegally.
Alexander Shprygin, who is suspected of ties to the extreme right, was detained with several other Russian fans and barred from French territory last week after violence around a match in Marseille.
Shprygin left France on Saturday, then returned Monday for Russia's match against Wales in Toulouse, apparently traveling overland from a neighboring country to avoid border controls.
He was detained again at the Toulouse stadium after tweeting about his return and posting images of himself online.
He has been ordered to leave France and is likely to fly out of Toulouse on a charter flight for Moscow on Tuesday, according to a Russian government official who was not authorized to be publicly named.
Shprygin sits on a Russian government commission overseeing Moscow's preparations for the 2018 World Cup. He has admitted to posting pictures of far right symbols online but says neither he nor his organization is racist.
The head of Russia's football federation has blasted the country's players for a lack of talent and desire as they exited the European Championship in the group stage.
Vitaly Mutko, who is also Russia's Sports Minister, says fourth place in Group B with defeats to Wales and Slovakia "shows the real level of our football" ahead of a home World Cup in 2018.
Mutko tells Russian state news agency Tass that "we don't have any top class players right now" and that "perhaps many have a lack of desire to grow, to move, to perfect themselves."
Mutko adds Russia should focus on developing young players and improving the domestic league but "you can't change anything in an hour."
UEFA to use different ball at Euro 2016 -The New Indian Express
It's not a punishment for the "Beau Jeu" ball which burst in the France-Switzerland game on Sunday.
UEFA says the switch was planned and follows a marketing plan for the Champions League where a new ball design is unveiled for the competition's later stages.
Ball maker Adidas revealed on Tuesday the design of the "Fracas" ball which teams will use when the round of 16 kicks off Saturday.
Rory McIlroy is flying in to watch his home country Northern Ireland in a European Championship game against Germany later Tuesday.
The former No. 1 golfer has posted a photograph on his Twitter account of himself and a group of five friends boarding a private airplane.
McIlroy, who is from Holywood near Belfast, tweets "See ya soon Paris!!" He adds the hashtag with the acronym 'GAWA,' for the Northern Ireland fans' label "Green and White Army."
He is wearing a white t-shirt with the face of George Best, the late and iconic Northern Ireland and Manchester United winger.
Playing at its first major tournament in 30 years, Northern Ireland could advance to the round of 16 even if it loses at Parc des Princes today.
A Russian fan group leader is being kicked out of France again, days after he was deported for alleged involvement in hooliganism and slipped back in to the country illegally.
Alexander Shprygin, who is suspected of ties to the extreme right, was detained with several other Russian fans and barred from French territory last week after violence around a match in Marseille.
Shprygin left France on Saturday, then returned Monday for Russia's match against Wales in Toulouse, apparently traveling overland from a neighboring country to avoid border controls.
He was detained again at the Toulouse stadium after tweeting about his return and posting images of himself online.
He has been ordered to leave France and is likely to fly out of Toulouse on a charter flight for Moscow on Tuesday, according to a Russian government official who was not authorized to be publicly named.
Shprygin sits on a Russian government commission overseeing Moscow's preparations for the 2018 World Cup. He has admitted to posting pictures of far right symbols online but says neither he nor his organization is racist.
The head of Russia's football federation has blasted the country's players for a lack of talent and desire as they exited the European Championship in the group stage.
Vitaly Mutko, who is also Russia's Sports Minister, says fourth place in Group B with defeats to Wales and Slovakia "shows the real level of our football" ahead of a home World Cup in 2018.
Mutko tells Russian state news agency Tass that "we don't have any top class players right now" and that "perhaps many have a lack of desire to grow, to move, to perfect themselves."
Mutko adds Russia should focus on developing young players and improving the domestic league but "you can't change anything in an hour."
UEFA to use different ball at Euro 2016 -The New Indian Express
