Basle, Switzerland - All eyes turned to action on the pitch Saturday as Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland kicked off with two matches. A low-key opening ceremony took place in the St Jakob Park stadium in Basle ahead of the opening game of the tournament between Switzerland and the Czech Republic. The presidents of Switzerland, Pascal Cuchepin, and Austria, Heinz Fischer, Prince Albert of Monaco, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso as well as football supremos Michel Platini (UEFA) and Joseph Blatter (FIFA), were among the capacity crowd of 40,000 present for the short 13-minute opening ceremony. The ceremony, conceptualized by French artistic director Martin Arnaud, used the movements of 600 volunteers, who were carrying multi-coloured cubes above their heads, to create extraordinary, gigantic pictures...
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