Made in Italy, or rather in Avellino, protagonist in the opening ceremony of the European football championship Munich. The long journey is over. The cup of dreams of‘European, 60 centimeters tall and 8 kilos in weight, arrived in Munich, protagonist of the opening ceremony full of emotion due to the presence on the pitch not only of Rummenigge but above all of the Kaiser’s widow Franz Beckenbauer. The European Cup is a jewel that UEFA has granted exclusively to Iaco Groupfor decades a European leader in the production of trophies, based in Avellino, Vicenza and Lugano.
A product entirely made in Italy, thanks to master craftsmen and graphic designers who work between Campania and Veneto. Igino and Alberto Iacovacci are elite partners of UEFA and numerous national federations in the creation of authentic jewels such as the European Cup.
A particular story: The Iaco Group won the contract for the production of the coveted trophies after 2007: until that year the cup was produced in Asprey Royal Jewelersin Bond Street, characterized by elegance and refinement. The Euro2016 trophy is handmade, almost entirely in silver and weighs approximately 8 kg. It is inspired by the original design of the first trophy that Italy lifted in 2021 and features a footballer dribbling. It took five months of work and attention to detail to create.
«We are proud to be an excellence of Made in Italy and it is clear that we are rooting for this cup of ours to now return to Italy. As already happened in London three years ago»he explains to us Alberto Iacovacci. To create this trophy, manual work accounts for over 80%, with a final bath in a silver solution: there is very little that is industrial. In fact, months of work are needed from the first to the last step.
Nobody in Europe has the numbers of the Iaco Group, absolute leader in the field and exclusive partner of dozens of federations. And not just football. On the other hand, it is not simply a company that produces cups, medals, plaques and trophies. In reality, it has been giving dreams for decades. Because it is no coincidence that even the MVP plaques that are delivered at the end of each Champions League match are made by the Irpinia company founded in 1978 by an intuition of Igino Iacovacci and now led by his son Alberto, president and CEO.
A leadership that in Italy manifests itself through the creation of the Italian Cup, the Italian Super Cup, the Scudetto cup: a solid and armored link with the Lega Calcio. But not only that: also the trophies of the events of the European Cycling Federation are exclusively made by iaco Gropu. And not only that: the French Federation, that of Montenegro, the Portuguese, the Spanish are customers of the company which is the flagship of Made in Italy.
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