EURO 2012

…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,…who took over as coach in late 2009 from Leo Beenhakker after Poland’s failed World Cup qualifying campaign. ” OK, so we didn’t win,… the right flank. Auxerre midfielder Dariusz Dudka, who is a veteran Poland’s 2006 World Cup and Euro 2008 teams, and Bordeaux player Ludovic Obraniak aren’t flashy, but provide…

Iker Casillas, Spain national team goalkeeper, equaled the world record of Dutchman Edwin van der Sar in the …one of the streets has his name.

On Wednesday evening, world and European champions beat Malaga Venezuela with the score … been the skipper of the team. He won the world championships in 2010 in South Africa and the European …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 …

… will play its meeting in Gdańsk and Poznań and their rivals will be the current European Champions: Spain, Ireland and Croatia.

After winning the World Cup in 2006, the Azurrich team did not perform so well. At the last Euro they just reached the quarterfinals and at the World Cup in South Africa they dropped out just after the matches in the group. The strength of the Italians will be Gianluigi Buffon in the…

World Cup vice-champions, on the second place after Spain in the FIFA rankings are one of the main favourites to win the European Championship. Two years ago in the World Cup final after extra time the Netherlands lost 0:1 to the Spanish. The team of Bert van Marwijk will play for the ninth time at the European Championship. The best result so far was the gold medal in 1988.

In qualifying for the Euro 2012 the Oranje team won 27 of 30 possible points available. The brightest points of …

South Africa’s 2007 World Cup-winning coach Jake White has opted to stay with ACT Brumbies after being linked with becoming England’s next head coach.

White was sounded out… coach Stuart Lancaster having taken charge for the ongoing Six Nations tournament.
White wrote on Twitter: “Always hard turning down a chance to win a world cup, but rugby is about making the right decisions and that’s to stay with Brumbies.”
Meanwhile, Lancaster has named an unchanged XV for the …

Bath flanker and World Cup winner Lewis Moody has announced that he is retiring from rugby union with immediate effect.

The 33-year-old, who has won 71 caps for his country and… 13/5 with bet365 to beat France in Paris this weekend and 25/1 to win the Six Nations title for a second successive year, crashed out of the World Cup in New Zealand.
Moody confirmed on Twitter: “Totally gutted I have had to take the decision to retire from all forms of rugby. I will truly miss it…

Franz Beckenbauer said he believes manager Joachim Loew is in charge of the best Germany squad in the nation’s football history.

The Bayern Munich legend lifted the World Cup as a player in 1974 and then as a manager in 1990, but he is of the opinion that neither group had the same strength in depth as the squad Loew is leading into Euro 2012.

“We have …

The European Championship tournament co-hosts in football will be debutants in this great event. The only tournament in which Ukraine participated as an independent state was the World Cup in Germany in 2006. There, after two wins in the group stage the team was promoted to 1/8 of the finals by beating the Swiss on penalties and then to the quarter-…

… has confirmed Andy Robinson has decided to stay on as Scotland’s head coach, despite collecting the wooden spoon in the Six Nations.

The former England coach is under contract until the 2015 World Cup, which Scotland are 66/1 to win with bet365. However, he was left to ponder whether he should continue after a poor Six Nations campaign, but after discussions with the RFU …

England interim coach Stuart Lancaster has made four changes to the line-up to face Wales in their Six Nations clash on Saturday.

Manu Tuilagi returns for the first time since the World Cup, while Geoff Parling, Ben Morgan and Lee Dickson have been handed their first starts for England, who are 6/4 with bet365 to win their first home game of the campaign.
Owen …