Euro 2012

41 737 spectators will be able to watch the matches on the new stadium which is being built in Wroclaw Maslice. During Euro 2012 three group matches are going to be organized in Wroclaw.

A polish-greek consortium chaired by Mostostal Warsaw S.A. won the tender for building the object. As the Department director for social matters in the Municipal Council in Wroclaw, Michal Janicki, said that “the contract will be signed immediately” if other firms participating in the tender will not protest and the the city council will transfer additional 200 millions PLN for the construction (this is the difference in cost between what the city was able to pay for the stadium and the actual cost).

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It was the first time for the head of UEFA – Michel Platini to admit that Poland can organize Euro 2012 itself – Kiev should this city be late with building the stadium than such an option is plausible – quotes „Dziennik”

Image experts who drop in the seat of UEFA now and than, spread their arms helplessly seeing Platini. Unfastened shirt, loose tie, and haircut right from the 80’s. Platini himself suggests not to care about his image yet he creates himself for a man who wants to have the UEFA slogan – “We care about football” – written all over his face at the same time. He mentions revolution, quarrels with the rich. It seems to him that he chose Poland in Ukraine out of concern for football (a not for money and contracts for the sponsors…).

- Euro 2012 can be the best championships for years and are an unique chance for your country – he says about Poland – If everything will go as we intended, football will develop in the East to a level you have never imagined before.

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Global financial crisis may make the job of preparing for the Euro 2012 football championship easier for Poland as demand for unrelated construction eases and prices drop, a senior official said on Friday.

Marcin Herra, who heads the PL.2012 agency preparing for the event, told Reuters in an interview, the global slowdown in investment increased developers’ interest in key infrastructure projects, while falling prices of building materials should make the final price-tag lower.

Infrastructure work is a major challenge for Poland and co-host Ukraine, which have to build not only stadiums to host the tournament but also roads, airports, railways and hotels.

“The crisis and the slowdown will have many consequences for the preparations… There are no more problems with finding employees… This will allow us to make much more rational deals than we previously expected,” Herra said.

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