--- title: Google Doodle Marks Start of Euro 2016 Soccer Competition description: With the UEFA European Championships about to begin, Google has scored with soccer fans by putting up a celebratory Doodle canonical: https://time.com/4363845/google-doodle-euro-2016-france/ author: Simon Lewis article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-10T03:46:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:14.215Z og:title: Google Doodle Marks Euro 2016 Soccer Competition og:description: The tournament kicks off on Friday in France og:url: https://time.com/4363845/google-doodle-euro-2016-france/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt947dc31ee25d8f62/6988973c8e06011ade466409/screen-shot-2016-06-10-at-10-34-13-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2016-06-10 at 10.34.13 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Marks Euro 2016 Soccer Competition twitter:description: The tournament kicks off on Friday in France twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt947dc31ee25d8f62/6988973c8e06011ade466409/screen-shot-2016-06-10-at-10-34-13-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Google Doodle Is Getting Us Ready for the Euro 2016 Soccer Competition by [Simon Lewis](https://time.com/author/simon-lewis/) ## Simon Lewis Jun 10, 2016 3:46 AM UTC  Google by [Simon Lewis](https://time.com/author/simon-lewis/) ## Simon Lewis Jun 10, 2016 3:46 AM UTC With the UEFA European Championships about to begin, Google has scored with soccer fans by putting up a celebratory [Doodle](http://www.google.com/doodles/uefa-euro-2016). France, which is hosting Europe’s four-yearly international soccer event, will play Romania in the opener on Friday night. Twenty-four teams including favorites Germany, reigning champions Spain, will compete for the Henri Delaunay Trophy over a full month of matches held in stadiums around France. The animated Doodle depicts a Parisian cityscape with an anthropomorphic, smiling Eiffel Tower playing keepie-uppie. The ball is in the French _tricoleur_, and the flags of all the teams competing in the tournament are displayed in the background. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4363845/google-doodle-euro-2016-france/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4363845/google-doodle-euro-2016-france/"},"headline":"This Google Doodle Is Getting Us Ready for the Euro 2016 Soccer Competition","datePublished":"2016-06-10T03:46:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:14.215Z","description":"The tournament kicks off on Friday in France","url":"https://time.com/4363845/google-doodle-euro-2016-france/","keywords":["Newsfeed","France","Football","Google Doodle","Soccer","Euro 2016"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt947dc31ee25d8f62/6988973c8e06011ade466409/screen-shot-2016-06-10-at-10-34-13-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Simon Lewis","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/simon-lewis/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt947dc31ee25d8f62/6988973c8e06011ade466409/screen-shot-2016-06-10-at-10-34-13-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2016-06-10 at 10.34.13 AM","caption":"","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4363845/google-doodle-euro-2016-france/","name":"This Google Doodle Is Getting Us Ready for the Euro 2016 Soccer Competition"}}]}] ```