Google celebrates the beginning of Euro 2016 with a doodle

It’s that season again and Euro 2016 is set to kick off tonight with host France facing off Romania at Stade de France.

To mark the beginning of this games, Google has marked this day with an interesting doodle. Today’s Doodle shows a cockerel, in the red, white and blue of the French flag, heralding the start of the tournament with a cockadoodledoo.

The Second “O” on Google shows the sun, maybe to symbolize the dawn of Euro 2016. On the far left and right of the Doodle, there are a flags for the various nations and teams that will participate in the Euro 2016.

UEFA Euro 2016 or simply Euro 2016, will be the 15th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men’s football championship of Europe organized by UEFA. It is scheduled to be held in France from 10 June to 10 July 2016. Spain are two-time defending champions.

For the first time, the European Championship final tournament will be contested by 24 teams, having been expanded from the 16-team format used since 1996. Under this new format, the finalists will contest a group stage consisting of six groups of four teams, followed by a knockout stage including three rounds and the final.

France was chosen as the host nation on 28 May 2010, after a bidding process in which they beat Italy and Turkey for the right to host the 2016 finals. The matches will be played in ten stadia in ten cities: Bordeaux, Lens, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris,Saint-Denis, Saint-Étienne, and Toulouse. It will be the third time that France hosts the tournament, after the inaugural tournament in 1960 and the 1984 finals. The French team have won the European Championship twice: in 1984 and 2000.

The winning team earns the right to compete at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup hosted by Russia.