Euro 2012

The demolition of „Trojickyj” Shopping Centre near the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, which will be the main Euro 2012 arena, took only one week. In Monday, according to lack of money, the work stopped – announced the newspaper “Sport-ekspres na Ukrainie” in Tuesday.

- If the demolition of the center has been really stopped, this can finally damage all our hopes (connected with organization of Euro 2012 by Ukraine) – said the chairman of the Ukrainian Federation of Football, quoted by the newspaper, Hryhorij Surkis.

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In Lvov began preparation works at the Euro-2012 stadium construction site in Striyskaya-Koltsevaya street.

By the end of September the Austrian Alpine company will equip building site, install temporary electrification and water supply. It’ll also take off the fertile soil layer.

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The prime minister of Ukraine Julia Tymoszenko announced on Wednesday, that the Shopping Centre „Trojickyj” near the Olympic Stadium in Kiev will be pulled down, and the stadium will be ready to host the final match of Euro 2012.

- The building (of the shopping centre) will be pulled down. The Olympic Stadium will be modernized in time in order to organize Euro 2012 there – said Tymoszenko on the press conference.

According to the vice-prime minister Iwan Wasiunyk, the modernization of the Olympic Stadium should be finished in 2010.
He informed, that the Olympic Stadium headquarters have agreed with UEFA a bimonthly schedule of the Olympic Stadium’s preparations to the tournament, which will take place in four years’ time.

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Italian daily paper “La Repubblica” expressed an opinion that nobody will take back Euro 2012. Italian media suggested before that the tournament would take place on the Apenine Peninsula.

Such comment was on the margin of the conversation with the president of UEFA Michel Platini who was staying in Italy. Platini, when asked if there is any news concerning Ukraine that is preparing Euro 2012 answered: “no, none”.

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Leo Beenhakker and his new training staff prepared a list of 20 players to be observed during the first round of Polish Ekstraklasa and First League - according to “Przegląd Sportowy”

Leo Beenhakker searches for new players not only due to the next World Championships in 2010 but also for Euro 2012. There are both former national team players and completely new ones on the list of 20 names, who will be observed by the Dutch manager in the league first round.
- How will the proportions between ‘newbies’ and experienced players be set? Well, I can say anything at the moment. We have already chosen some players, but very much depends on how they will play in the first round of the league – said Rafał Ulatowski, the assistant of Beenhakker.

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Experiences of other countries show, that the organization of the Championships, most of all, gives benefits for companies which take part in tourist traffic service, improves an image of given country, and also causes great development of infrastructure.

According to preliminary approximations, about half a million foreign supporters should arrive in Poland during Euro 2012. Dynamic development of the hotel base will be necessary to accommodate all guests. Experts predict, that it should be improved by building new 30 000 hotel places. In Warsaw, Gdańsk, Poznań and Wrocław, (so-called basic cities), and in reserve cities – Chorzów and Kraków, many decisions are being made and their aim is an extension of hotel base with missing places.

According to data published by Main Statistic Department (in Polish – Główny Urząd Statystyczny) the hotel infrastructure in Poland in last months of 2007 consisted of 1 370 objects. 108 of them were in categorization process. During 2007 75 new hotel objects have been built in Poland. Most of all new hotels have been built in voivodships: Dolnośląskie (15), Małopolskie (22), Pomorskie (10) and currently the number of them in all these voivodships is 820 which is 60% of all hotel objects in Poland.

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If more and more real scenario was put into practice and all the matches (or almost all) should be played in Poland what would it mean for the inhabitants of our country?

As it is reported (a source similar to Michel Platini) UEFA considers talking back part of the meetings from Ukraine for the benefit of Poland. There is also a possible scenario that both semi-finals and the finals would be played in our country. Would we cope with the organization of the tournament on our own and what would it mean for Poland?

Stadium abundance

Stadium for Euro 2012 are prepared in Warsaw, Poznan, Gdansk, Wroclaw, Chorzów and Krakow. If it turned out that Poland have to organize the event without the help of Ukraine, we would have to build 8 stadiums. Then, the soccer activists point that Zabrze with the stadium Górnik and Warsaw with the stadium Legia could take part in Euro.

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The President of Ukrainian Federation Soccer admitted that it’s probable that the majority of Euro 2012 matches including finals, would be played in Poland. The Prime Minister of Ukraine is a bigger optimist.

Ukrainians have the biggest problems with the infrastructure, especially with old airports. What’s more, there is also a problem with Olympic Stadium where finals are planned. An object that can accommodate 75.000 spectators is supposed to be entirely rebuilt and extend to about 85.000 seats. A Taiwanese company that won a bidding for the modernization of the stadium wants to alter plans and reduce the tribunes to about 50.000 seats. The costs of works increased by about 100 million dollars. That is why Taiwanese people had the work license taken back.

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Ukrainian paper “Gazeta 24″ alarms: Poland wants to take the Ukrainian part of Euro!

UEFA does not believe Ukraine can succeed. Poland gets ready for organizing the EURO 2012 final match, says the news.ru portal, referring to the article in “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Więcej Euro a Polsce, a nawet całe?” (more Euro in Poland, maybe whole?). We informed there that UEFA considers organizing two and not three matches of three groups, both semifinals and final in Poland, not in Kiev.
Even Hryhorij Surkis, chief of Ukrainian Football Association, who rarely comments such news, took the floor: “I talked with Michal Listkiewicz about this fact - said Surkis to the portal “Gazeta 24″ - We both claim to play in one team. What the journalists do is putting a spoke in wheel of ours. We have already lost enough of time.

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In the next week will be presented a report on the centres of residence for the teams involved in European football championship in 2012 poland - announced the president overseeing the preparation of the company PL.2012 Marcin Herra.

Team composed of representatives of the Polish Football Association, the Ministry of Sport and Tourism and PL.2012 made a very precise evaluation of 110 centres residence located throughout the country. For six weeks have been visited and checked every place, and then bear the additional documentation photo that was seen progress in a given time - said Herra.

In Poland, will be more than 16 bases residence for representation, which will be ready for mid 2010. We should not confine itself only to such numbers, because then we will exclude many objects, which could be on the list of Euro - he added.

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