Coca Cola Euro 2020 bottle shaped red metal bottle opener

## Coca Cola Euro 2020

View from the front with the logos and the inscriptions

View from the blank backside

**Coca Cola bottle** shaped metal bottle opener with red-white-black acrylic layer on its front with **the Coca Cola logo** and a "**Taste the Feeling**" inscription, followed by **the UEFA EURO 2020 logo** accompanied by an inscription writing "**Official Partner**". The backside of the opener is completely blank. We also kept the original packaging of the opener which gives us information about its material, country of origin and importer.

This bottle opener was a gift from *A.B.*

## Trivia

### Coca Cola

**Coca-Cola**, or **Coke**, is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by The Coca-Cola Company. Originally marketed as a temperance drink and intended as a patent medicine, it was invented in the late 19th century by *John Stith Pemberton* and was bought out by businessman *Asa Griggs Candler*, whose marketing tactics led Coca-Cola to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century. The drink's name refers to two of its original ingredients: coca leaves and kola nuts (a source of caffeine).

The current formula of Coca-Cola remains a trade secret; however, a variety of reported recipes and experimental recreations have been published. The company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Coca-Cola bottlers throughout the world.

### UEFA Champions League

The **UEFA European Football Championship**, commonly known as the **UEFA European Championship**, is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), determining the continental champion of Europe. The competition has been held every four years since 1960, except for 2020, when it was postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. Scheduled to be in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the **European Nations' Cup**, changing to the current name in 1968. Starting with the 1996 tournament, specific championships are often referred to in the form "**UEFA Euro** [year]"; this format has since been retroactively applied to earlier tournaments.

In 1991, UEFA asked its commercial partner, *Television Event and Media Marketing* (TEAM), to help "brand" the Champions League. This resulted in the anthem, "house colors" of black and white or silver and black logo, and the "*starball*".

The **2020 UEFA European Football Championship**, commonly referred to as **UEFA Euro 2020** or simply **Euro 2020**, was the 16th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the European Championship competition, UEFA president *Michel Platini* declared that the tournament would be hosted in several nations as a "romantic" one-off event, with 11 cities in 11 UEFA countries each providing venues for the tournament, making it the second tournament in the history after the 2007 AFC Asian Cup to have more than two nations co-hosting it.

## See also

* Coca Cola (Wikipedia)
* The Coca Cola website
* UEFA Championship (Wikipedia)
	+ UEFA Euro 2020 (Wikipedia)
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