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The Portuguese prefer placement during Euro 2012 in Poland than in Ukraine. As the athletic director of the Football Federation of Portugal Carlos Hodino, pireneytsi already reserved the base in both countries accept the European championship in 2012, but Poland offers the best conditions.


"For reasons of logistics, a little more than a year before the championship, we reserved the training centers in the two host countries of the Euro 2012" - said Carlos Hodino.


However, he said, the final decision on location of deployment team Paulo Bent will be taken after drawing the final part. However, the results of the procedure on Dec. 2 is unlikely to affect the Portuguese desire to live in Poland.

Midfielder "Milan" and the Dutch national team, Mark van Bommel told, who, in his opinion, is the main contender for victory at Euro 2012.


"I'll tell you straight: Germany - a favorite of the upcoming European Championships. At the same time last friendlies Germans and Spaniards, the reigning world champion and Europe, can not compare - Germany was playing at home. If you look at those goals, which we missed - they were killed in the counterattack, when we relaxed for a moment, for what the Germans have been punished in cold blood. In the same way they beat for example, England at the last World Cup.


Nobody expected our defeat, and because we started the match really well, but at crucial moments we had bad luck "- quoted by van Bommel Goal.com.


Recall Germany in a friendly match held yesterday, beat Holland 3-0.

"During the Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland was not the stadium, which can be compared to the arenas, which appeared today in Donetsk and Gdansk" - these words during a press conference in Zurich on his attitude towards the main Ukrainian and Polish football facilities the future of Euro-2012 expressed COO Martin Kallen, UEFA.


He said that the host country of the continental championship-2012 already has seven ready-made stadium in Wroclaw, Gdansk, Donetsk, Kiev, Lviv, and Kharkiv, Poznan, Poland and the main arena - the National Stadium in Warsaw - completed by the end of November.

Especially COO UEFA hit the pace of construction in Lviv evroareny, readiness is still at the beginning of last year was 10%, and opened on the 29th of October 2011. "Lviv stadium opened last Saturday. This object has been our main problem, and until last week, I confess, I personally do not believe that the stadium will be ready. But the Ukrainians did it! ", - Said Martin Kallen.

Friendly match between the national teams of France and Poland, June 9 that would open a new football stadium in Gdansk, may be moved to Warsaw.

This was stated by spokesman of the Polish Football Association (PZPN) Anhyeshka Oleykovska, reports AFP.

According to her, "Amber" arena in Gdańsk now looks like one big construction site, and the Polish side is confident that construction of the arena will be completed by June 9.

"I obscure the fact that we are concerned about the situation as well as the French side. The match will take place, but the venue under a big question. If it can not be played in Gdansk, not only that the match will be moved to Warsaw, " - Oleykovska reported.

She added that the final match of the organizers will take after the police report on the possibility of the event, writes 2012ua.net.

Members of the gay-fan-club team in Poland "Rainbow Tribune demanded from the organizers of Euro 2012 to enable people with different sexual orientations to watch matches of the tournament with a specially reserved for them sectors.

According to representatives of the club, the current situation in the stadiums do not guarantee their safety while watching matches.

"We wish that everyone could feel comfortable in the stadiums. As long as no separation of sectors it is impossible.

Our initiative also aims to provide a comfortable environment for gay men who came from other countries. Homophobia that is present in Polish society, represents danger to them. Many of them used to live on other standards, "- said in a statement the gay fan club" Rainbow Tribune, which is posted on the official website of the movement.

Reconstructed for Euro 2012 stadium in Poznan does not meet safety standards. UEFA warned that in case of panic in the trap will be thousands of fans and a tragedy could happen again Duisburg. Recall of non-compliance with safety standards on the German Stadium last summer in a stampede killed 19 people.

Therefore, the closest match of the League of Europe, in which local "Lech" will meet with the Portuguese "Braga", recommended that you run no more than 20 thousand people (capacity about 42 thousand).

Poznan stadium does not meet standards in several indicators. Impede rapid evacuation of the narrow stairs, emergency exits, too loose pull-down gates. In some places, can pass on the roof of the stadium. Among the minor defects - bad line marked out of the arena and not very good visibility on the field with several hundred seats.

It is noteworthy that the commission of UEFA draw conclusions on the results of the October inspection of the stadium, and an official notification "Lekh" received only this week. Thus, the club, if UEFA does not agree with his arguments, will incur a loss of 1 million zlotys.

Poles, in turn, has enlisted the help of police and a representative committee of Euro 2012 in Poznan, Michal primate. The first gave approval for the match, and a functionary has concluded that the stadium is built according to Polish standards, to which there is evidence of building inspection. In addition, the organizers of the match promised to update the evacuation signs. The remaining gaps, as reported gazeta.pl, the match can not be eliminated due to lack of time.

As mentioned earlier, all the tickets were divided into three categories (1-I - the most expensive, the third - the cheapest), and their prices ranged from 30 to 600 euros.

However, these figures are not all the games. For example, tickets to the final match of the tournament will start at 50 euros, whereas in the group stage of the game the cheapest tickets priced at 30 euros. Will be different and the price to attend the opening match.

Opening match

1-st category - ? 250 Category 2 - 140 euros, the third category - 45 euros;


Group matches

1-st category - 120 euro, 2 nd category - 70 euros, the third category - 30 euros;


Quarterfinals

1-st category - EUR 150, Category 2 - 80 euros, the third category - 40 euros;


Semifinals

1-st category - 270 euro, 2 nd category - 150 euros, the third category - 45 euros;


Finale

1-st category - ? 600, Category 2 - 330 euros, the third category - 50 euros.


We remind you that Poland and Ukraine for the tickets will be calculated in national currency, bank transfer or by credit card. Foreign guests to the tournament will need to pay by credit card, and exclusively in euros.

Losing on penalties Behrang Safari and Kim Shelstrem have not found anything better than "go off" on referees.

After the match referee's match got a lot of unflattering reviews:

"He's definitely not a genius, because not worked perfectly. Disastrous refereeing. Eric Hamre to adjourn told us that we pay less attention to the arbitrator," - said Bajrami.

Second defender and his partner on the national team, Kim Shelstrem:

"Horribly wrong" - The short answer to the question of judging the Lyon midfielder.

Ukrainian team won the Cyprus tournament. In the finale of Ukraine in the penalty shoot-out beat the Swedes.

Ukraine - Sweden - 1:1 (1:1) on penalties - 5:4

Goals: 0:1 - Elmander (7), 1:1 - Devic (20, penalty)

Ukraine: Shovkovskiy, Fedetskyy, Kucher, Michalik, Romanchuk, Stepanenko (Tymoschuk, 81), Rotan, Oleinik (Morozyuk, 73), Yarmolenko (Aliyev 63), Devic, Kravets

Sweden: Isaksson, Lustig, Granqvist, Majstorovic (Mellberg 46), Safari (Stenman, 78), Svensson (Eriksson, 78), Kalstrem, Larsson, Wilhelmsson, Elmander (Bajrami, 60), Ibrahimovic (Elmo, 46)

Russian midfielder Vladimir Bystrov said the defeat of the Russian team in a friendly match on the national team of Iran (0:1).

"The game turned serious - quoted Bystrov" Sports Weekend ". - Our team in functional terms is not yet ready to play a high tempo for 90 minutes. Contender also demonstrated its ability to act" number two ". But we did not pay attention to him. We played our own game. Iran's national team - this is a good team, she desperately resisted, but in the end all and pulled out a victory. We had a little "hooked" and the opponent took advantage of this opportunity. So lost. But it's better to play in friendlies than the official ones. In this case, the conclusions can be drawn so as not to lose concentration and to prevent similar mistakes in the qualifiers. "

Recall that in this match the Russian team conceded only one goal on 89 minutes.