2010 Football Word Cup Logo Design Launched

Added on: 7/7/2006 | Source: FIFA

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Amidst a spectacular display of fireworks, African folklore and dance, the 2010 World Cup logo design was unveiled to rapturous applause at the official World Cup FIFA handover to South Africa in Berlin, Germany.

Bearing the image of an African football player in the overhead bicycle kicking position, the soccer tournament logo also incorporates the colours of black, red, gold and blue. The logo will be the image associated with the 2010 World Cup across the world.

Forty-year-old Gabriel da Abreu, whose Johannesburg company Switch Design created the wining emblem, was at the handover.

“We think we met Fifa’s brief because we showed what African football is all about: flair. The bicycle kick presents that and the colours are not only the colours of South Africa but also of the whole continent,” he explained.

A pre-recorded interview played at the ceremony Constitutional Judge Albie Sachs, who was the chairman of the six member-judging panel that selected the final football logo design, said. “We wanted a human being, we wanted the African continent. This had to be an emblem that signifies where the competition is going to take place and the emotions that were going to be released.

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