DOHA: Identified using adidas Connected Ball Technology, the ‘FUSSBALLLIEBE FINALE’ ball with which Mikel Oyarzabal scored the winning goal in the UEFA EURO 2024 final is being auctioned on Catawiki, with all proceeds going to the UEFA Foundation for Children.
Oyarzabal’s 86th-minute winner clinched a record fourth UEFA European Championship title for Spain following a pulsating final against England in Berlin on 14 July – and you can own a unique part of football history by bidding on the very ball with which the winning goal was scored, signed by the matchwinner himself.
Adidas’s Connected Ball Technology, which made its EURO debut this summer, enabled European football’s governing body to track each of the 60 ‘FUSSBALLLIEBE FINALE’ balls used during the UEFA EURO 2024 final, and for the first time in a UEFA EURO final the exact ball with which the winning goal was scored was identified.
UEFA are therefore able to offer fans and collectors the chance to get their hands on ball number 17/60, signed by Oyarzabal, as part of an auction with all proceeds going to the UEFA Foundation for Children.
The auction, launched today, will continue until 4 August.
In addition, the unique memento also comes with adidas’ new match ball plinth made of anodised aluminium in the shape of a triangular prism containing 54 triangles that each represent every national association that took part in the 2024 edition of the UEFA European Championship (qualifying included).
