Soccer: Poland and Ukraine host Euro 2012 [Confirmed!]

BBC SPORT ^ | 2007/04/18 | BBC

[wolf78]

Poland and Ukraine host Euro 2012

Poland and Ukraine have been chosen to host the 2012 European Championships.

Italy were widely expected to win the Uefa vote in Cardiff, with another joint bid from Croatia and Hungary also in the running.

However, Italy's bid was overshadowed by last season's referee corruption scandal and their on-going problems with football-related crowd trouble.

It will be the first time that either Poland or Ukraine have hosted a major football championship.

"Finally, the big event is going to the countries which have had no opportunities to improve football," said Polish Football Association chairman Michal Listkiewicz.

"This big tournament will be a milestone in the common history of two Slavic nations."

Poland and Ukraine's bid team staged an impressive presentation on Tuesday, featuring Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko, Liverpool keeper Jerzy Dudek as well as boxer Vitali Klitschko, former Olympic champion Sergei Bubka and Ukraine president Victor Yushchenko.

[wolf78]

I guess this will make a lot of Polish soccer fans happy ;)

[Da_Shrimp]

When I was over in Poland last week, my father-in-law told me this was in the offing. Looks like I’ll be over in Poland in 2012 watching a few games!

[wolf78]

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[Jedi Master Pikachu]

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Uefa president Michael Platini reveals the surprise hosts of Euro 2012

Pictures from the article. In the second picture, it looks as though the taller man is kissing the head of the smaller one.

[saganite]

Poland now has the worst soccer hooligans in Europe. Hope they don’t spoil the party.

[Grzegorz 246]

“Poland now has the worst soccer hooligans in Europe.”

Anti-Polish lies.

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[1rudeboy]

Ok, who’s gonna put me up in their house in Poland for a couple weeks?

[1rudeboy]

Are the houses in Poland heated, or should I expect to chop my own wood? Do I need to bring toilet paper?

[dfwgator]

So are the Poles going to build new stadiums, or upgrade the current ones? It would be nice to have a state-of-the-art stadium in Warsaw.

[wolf78]

I think,you must be a faithful follower of SZ, BZ, FAZ etc or Ingolf Lueck's on ZDF. Only there can you find such rhetoric filled with such overwhelming "Teutonic love" to Poles and Poland?

Ah, c'mon, don't get me started on the Polish press ;). And by the way, take your pills, your starting to see German conspiracies everywhere again *LOL.

Anti-Polish lies.

Well, it's a fact that Polish soccer has a bit of a hooliganism problem, no denying that. But Poland's not the only European country to have that.... and the worst? I don't know.

[saganite]

LOL! Pretty over the top reply but I got a laugh out of it. Thanks.

[wolf78]

But, the password “verfluchter Polnische Banditten” still works in Germany and must be continually refreshed so that Ein Volk will never forget its attitude to the eastern neighbour.

You know, we call Austrians "Schluchtenscheisser" ("he who defecates into a canyon"), and they are Germans, too... of sorts. Americans call us Krauts... so what? Get a grip, man.