EURO 2021

Ukrainian hoteliers are missing out on early bookings for Euro 2012 with reservation databases in host-city hotels still closed for the dates of the event, according to www.booked.net. Less than 250 days from the kick-off of Europe’s top international soccer showcase almost all host-city hotel booking systems in Ukraine, which is co-hosting the tournament alongside Poland, remain closed. Meanwhile, preparations for the 14th European Championship is continuing at pace across Ukraine. Reconstruction of stadiums and key improvements to infrastructure is almost complete in the host-cities of Donetsk, Kharkiv, Lviv and […]

With the Polish venues on track in their preparations for co-hosting Euro 2012, the lingering concern for the country’s football fans is whether they will have a national team capable of putting up a respectable performance. Coach Franciszek Smuda has seen his side fall as far as 73rd in FIFA’s admittedly farcical ranking system, with the dearth of playing talent a regular topic for the country’s footballing media. Many wonder what happened to the squad that won the European Under-18 Championship in Finland in 2001. That team included Tomasz Kuszczak, […]

English language proficiency among managers of most of the capital of taxi services is not enough to easily serve foreign guests, who will come to Kiev for Euro-2012 next year. In anticipation of the preparation of Kiev to receive the final game of the UEFA European Football Championship Euro 2012 Fokus.ua learned how Kiev taxi service ready to serve foreign visitors. For this edition rung round the capital’s 15 firms engaged in carting, and tried to call the car in English. The most pleasant impression made “Taxi Chanson”. In the […]

Volunteers Euro-2012 uniform is designed in three colors – dark blue, light blue and red. This was announced during the presentation of clothing assistants European Football Championship 2012, held September 8 in Kiev. First put on the form provided and Friends of Euro 2012, Alexander and Alexander Pedan “Fozzy” Sidorenko. The presentation was held Director of Euro-2012 Ukraine Markiyan Lubkivsky and volunteer project manager Andrew Bantser, according to Information Center of Ukraine-2012.

Thanks to the Euro 2012 Adidas wants to be the leader in the market of football clothes in our country. The company will take a lot of marketing and promotional activities. – Warsaw has changed. Trends from the West are very visible in the city. Your capital city looks like major cities in Europe. Young people look the same and have fashionable clothes – says Herbert Heiner, Adidas Managing Director. Adidas is, of course, number 1 when it comes to soccer in the world and European championships are one of […]

Ukraine and Poland will duly prepare for hosting the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) European Football Championship in 2012, said UEFA President Michel Platini. “We have been in intense preparations for the Euro 2012. There have been some difficulties, but everything will be good at the 2012 European Championship in Ukraine and Poland. We had asked for stadiums to be ready two years before the tournament, but this is not always possible. This is very hard work. Everything will be done on time,” he told a press conference in […]

Builders involved in the sites of European Football Championship, are not paid in time. It is reported by “Radio” Liberty” with a reference to the trade union leaders and workers themselves. Working with NSK “Olympic” saying that the money paid little and more and not timely. They believe that this situation threatens the quality and timing of completion. “I get a hundred hryvnia per day, somebody has – 150. It’s very small! Withhold wages for the time. Now delayed for a week” – said one of the builders. A few […]

Euro 2012 is a great sports event with a lot of football fans from across Europe. They watch matches, have fun, drink, celebrate or… they want to feel happier. They drive around the country, they may seek friends, and possibly prostitutes. Will all that is associated with it become stronger? the activities of criminal groups, conflicts between them, trafficking in women, forcing them to provide sexual services? “The demand may increase” admits Irena Dawid-Olczyk from the Foundation Against Trafficking in Women of La Strada. However in Germany, before the world […]

Wireless Internet is plannd to be implemented not only in kiev metro, but in trains also. For the first time wireless communications will be put on a fast section of the route Lviv – Kiev – Kiev – Donetsk, which strenuously prepares for high-speed movement at the time of the start of European Football Championship Euro 2012, reports the newspaper “Segodnya”. Ukrzaliznytsya is now looking for partners among communication companies who are ready to implement a project to provide wireless connectivity for passenger trains on all lines operating in Ukraine. […]

Information agency “Tavria News”  conducted a public opinion poll during 90 days by voting online. The main questing was “Do we really need EURO 2012 in Ukraine? Poll results clearly demonstrate the relationship of Kherson people (as part of Ukrainian society) to this event. Out of the 500 voters: – Answered affirmatively, only 37.2% of respondents; – Consider it necessary, not holding EURO 52.9% of respondents; – And only 9.9% of respondents answered that they do not care at all What conclusions can be made out of such data? Ukrainians […]