Karla Kick
Karla Kick was the official mascot of the 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany. The mascot represents a cat .
Emergence
Karla Kick was designed by the Frankfurt creative agency GMR Marketing GmbH . The mascot was presented to the public prior to the opening game of the 2010 U-20 Women's World Cup on July 13, 2010 in Bochum . Karla Kick wears a white jersey, black pants, white socks and soccer shoes . So she wears the same colors as the players of the German national team .
The head of the organizing committee of the 2011 Women's World Cup, Steffi Jones , told Karla Kick that the mascot “stands for the most important attributes of women's football in an impressive way: passion, fun and dynamism”. In addition, Karla Kick embodies typical German virtues such as thoroughness and discipline, but also a thirst for adventure, spontaneity and temperament.
criticism
According to the Frankfurter Rundschau , Karla Kick makes a "harmless impression". The mascot would look like "a squirrel that grew up in a nuclear power plant ". The fact that Karla Kick wears trousers in contrast to the mascot of the 2006 World Cup , Goleo VI , was positively rated . The daily newspaper Freie Presse described Karla Kick as a "sympathetic ball of fur that, in contrast to marketing mistakes like Goleo VI or Hanniball, will not be forgotten".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ dfb.de: A cat as the new mascot of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011
- ↑ freiepresse.de: Karla Kick wins the hearts of football fans ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
