Official FIFA World Cup™ Germany 2006 Poster.
Offizielles Event-Poster der FIFA WM 2006™.
World Cup Poster 2006
The winning design by Berlin design agency We do Communication GmbH featues a football made up of stars glittering in a night sky. The winning design beat off four rivals in a telephone and text poll by 50,000 people in Germany.
“We liked both the idea and the execution. Stars taking the shape of a football is a new, strongly symbolic idea, and the poster struck an emotional chord with me. In my opinion, football is all about emotion and passion. The fans have made the right choice,” said 2006 FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee President Franz Beckenbauer.
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