UEFA warms to ‘Champignons League’ pizza, no trademark beef

German frozen pizza manufacturer of Champignons League pizza is fine with UEFA after all. (Shutterstock)

• A German frozen pizza manufacturer is referencing the Champions League with one of its cheesy offerings
• The UEFA Champions League can happily live alongside this delicious-sounding pizza

BERLIN: The Champignons League pizza is fine with UEFA after all.
European soccer’s governing body said Tuesday it does not mind that a German frozen pizza manufacturer is referencing the Champions League with one of its cheesy offerings.
The manufacturer, Pizza Wolke, said on Sunday that it had received a letter from a lawyer acting on behalf of UEFA asking it to cease using the name “Champignons League” for its mushroom pizza.
But in a slice of good news for Pizza Wolke, which is based in the central town of Gießen north of Frankfurt, UEFA suggested that the legal representative had made a meal of the matter.
“UEFA obviously takes the protection of its intellectual property seriously but this instance seems to be a case of an overzealous local trademark agent acting too hastily,” the governing body said in a statement. “The UEFA Champions League can happily live alongside this delicious-sounding pizza.”