EURO 2012

…the squad – Norwich City goalkeeper John Ruddy and club mate of Wojciech Szczęsny from Arsenal London – midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

Prior to Euro 2012 England’s team is going on May 21 on 4-day training camp to Spain and will play two friendly matches – on 26th of May, with Norway in the Ullevaal stadium in Oslo and six days later with Belgium in London’s Wembley.

During the tournament, Roy Hodgson’s protégées will be accommodated in Cracow.

At the group stage, they will be…

…returned to the team.

Swedish national team will prepare for the championships on the training camp in Gotland from May 24 – 28), and from 2nd, to 4th of June, in Stockholm. During that period of time, it will play two friendly matches: on May 30, with Island in Goeteborg and on June 5, against Serbia in Stockholm.

Portugal Euro 2012 Squad

Goalkeepers: Andreas Isaksson (PSV Eindhoven), Johan Wiland (FC København), Pär Hansson (Helsingborgs).

Defenders: Mikael Antonsson (Bologna FC),…

… they are the favorites to advance from our group. Greece also is very good.”

Poland, which automatically qualified for the tournament as co-host, hasn’t played a competitive match since 2010 World Cup qualifying. But the team has performed well in friendlies against some top-tier opposition, including a string of draws against Germany, Mexico and Portugal.

That has produced a little buzz at home, and a growing sense of hope that the team can put on a good show.

”Last year showed …

… of Euro,” explained Smuda the absence of Watford’s goalkeeper. The selector was consequent and has not forgiven alcoholic excesses of Sławomir Peszko, although some of the team members asked him to do it.

Before Euro 2012, the Polish national team will play three friendly matches: on May 22 with Latvia, on 26th with Slovakia and on June 2, with Andorra. “I can feel that the first blow on the whistle in the match with Greece it is getting nearer and nearer. I fear injuries the most, because …

…? The prospect moved ever closer after Cesare Prandelli confirmed that the enigmatic striker will be in the Italian squad.

Balotelli’s place at the tournament was thought to be in major doubt after he was excluded from the squad to face USA in a friendly back in February due to his decidedly dodgy disciplinary record in the Premier League.

It is a facet of his game which Super Mario has hardly improved upon in the intervening months – his moments of madness in the recent defeat to Arsenal …

… match, he may be very close to getting this title. The dreams come true!

Mario Balotelli (Italy, Manchester City)

Crazy, non-predictable, but at the same time smashingly effective. Wojtek Szczęsny, who was defeated by Balotelli in a friendly match (Italians won against Poland by scoring 2:0 then) could convince himself of his workmanship last November. If Balotelli treats EURO seriously and does his best, he can be a revelation.

Andriy Shevchenko (Ukraine, Dynamo Kiev)

He is …

… two third places at the World Championships in 1974 and 1982 and the Olympic gold in 1972 and two silver medals in 1976 and 1992. As co-organizer of the tournament Poland is guaranteed to start in the tournament through which since 2009 we play only friendly matches which may explain our big drop in the FIFA ranking. During the term of Franciszek Smuda we were able to overcome the Ivory Coast team, among others, to outplay Argentina’s third team, to tie with Mexico, Portugal and Germany and to …

… 1/8 of the finals by beating the Swiss on penalties and then to the quarter-finals where the team managed to cope with the later winner, Italy.

Due to the fact that the Yellow-Blues are guaranteed to start in the main event, they played friendly matches. Their balance from the beginning of 2011 is four wins with lower notes teams, three draws with Romania, Sweden and Germany and five losses with, inter alia, Italy, France and Uruguay.

The leader of the team is, without a doubt, Andriy …

… to sway Smuda, who said he “shook with rage” on learning of the incident.

“He won’t be in my team. End of story,” Smuda said earlier this week, underlining that he had given Peszko a second chance after drunken misbehaviour following a friendly against Australia in Poland in September 2010.

Lewandowski, who made his Poland debut in 2008 and is now 23, acknowledged that professional footballers had to watch themselves.

“You can’t act the fool, but you do need a break from training, to …

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