EURO 2012

… reasons, probably the economic situation in Europe, the cost of travelling, the cost of accommodation, he added.

Correia doesn’t worry about tickets purchasers and explains that it is not the first such case in the history.

- Usually our target is 95 percent of the tickets sold, because it’s almost impossible to have 100 percent, he told. In the past, at Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland, we also sold around 60,000 tickets at the last minute. So it’s not out of the ordinary.

… most important football tournament in history. As the tournament co-hosts with Ukraine we will host the 14 best representations of the Old Continent. This will be our second start in the European Championship, the first four years ago on the fields of Austria and Switzerland we finished in the group stage with just one point gained.

Now, as before four years ago, Polish players goal is a minimum to advance from the group. The task was made easier for us by the December draw in which to our …

…3, 2000 in the match with Sweden. Then he was 19 years and 14 days. Since 2008 he has been the skipper of the team. He won the world championships in 2010 in South Africa and the European Championship two years ago in Austria and Switzerland. He also took part in the European Championships in Portugal in 2004 and World Cups in South Korea and Japan in 2002 and Germany in 2006.

The record of played matches belonging to the legendary Andoni Zubizaretta (126) was improved in mid-November 2011 in…

… will be very hard to defeat us – he added.

The Russian team was praised by Morten Olsen, a Dutch selector of the Dutch team. He stressed that Advocaat relies mainly on the same football players who, during the recent European championships in Austria and Switzerland, managed to get to the semi-finals. “They are a little older, but still strong and dangerous, and, above all, it is a very good team of players well-adjusted to working together, having a similar game style like Germany and the …

… Bet Italy at bookie.

England vs Switzerland (Sat. June 4 16:45)

… last weekend) when they take on Switzerland, with an afternoon kickoff (4.45pm… with 888sport on an away win.

Switzerland, where tipped to be one of… Rooney against SwitzerlandMaking up the numbers

Switzerland are joined in mid-table … 5/1 and 1-0 to Switzerland is at 18/1. The … are the new faces in the Switzerland squad, and their country really needs them, since Switzerland’s prolific strikers Alexander Frei and Marco …

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Greece v Latvia
Israel v Croatia (Sat.)

Group G
Wales v Bulgaria
Montenegro v Switzerland

Game to Watch: Montenegro v Switzerland

Quietly, ever so quietly, Montenegro is becoming a Cinderella of European football. Still in its infancy, it’s … less, could vault them up several notches in the eyes of the football world.
Switzerland, meanwhile, will be trying to reclaim the momentum from their stunning upset of Spain …

… Friday’s Euro 2012 qualifying.

Fabio Capello’s England side were forced to settle for a disappointing 2-2 draw at home to Switzerland in their last qualifier on June 4.

Prior to that, they played out a 1-1 draw in a friendly at home …a 2-0 qualifying victory away to Wales three days earlier.

England remain top of Group G despite the two points dropped against Switzerland.

They are level on 11 points with Montenegro, who take on Wales in Cardiff on Friday, and cannot afford to slip up…

…bet365 to finish at the top of the Premier League table.
Serbian defender Vidic twisted his right knee in a challenge with Basel striker Marco Streller and was replaced by Jonny Evans.
Sir Alex Ferguson fears Vidic has suffered medial ligament damage, but the 30-year-old central defender will have a scan to determine the extent of the problem.
United’s defeat in Switzerland means they will be playing in the Europa League in the new year and they are 13/2 to win Europe’s secondary competition.

… against Montenegro after kicking out at Miodrag Dzudovic and was later handed a three-game ban.
Rooney will sit out England’s first two group games against France and Sweden at Euro 2012, a tournament Fabio Capello’s team are 10/1 with bet365 to win while Spain are 12/5 to retain the trophy they won in Austria and Switzerland in 2008.
A UEFA spokesman confirmed that the ban for the third match will be suspended for four years while Rooney has also agreed to do some coaching in the community.

…’t do anything about that now,” Fletcher said.
“We can only deal with what’s in front of us in the position we’re in and challenge that obstacle.”
United will be without strike pair Dimitar Berbatov and Javier Hernandez (both ankle) for the crucial clash at St Jakob Park, with Michael Carrick missing through suspension.
Michael Owen, Tom Cleverley, Rafael and Fabio also miss the trip to Switzerland, with Sir Alex Ferguson likely to pair Wayne Rooney with the fit-again Danny Welbeck in attack.