Opinion

Fabio Capello have done it after all! As you must already know, the English Football Association yesterday, on February 9th, announced the discharge of England national team coach. For a few weeks running the football community watched in perplexity the strange behaviour of an Italian - and it is all over now. But the irony is that Capello was shown the door for one of his not numerous sensible and logic deeds. Suffered for Terry For a star...'

The majority of foreign football fans coming for matches of European football championship in summer will discover Ukraine for the first time. To make the meeting with the most mysterious country of Europe, as it is called by many guides, trouble-free and pleasant, Euro 2012 guests should follow some rules. The Ukrainian edition "Today" composed a list of useful advice which will help foreign fans to avoid unpleasant surprises in U...'

The football players train themselves, the fans hunt for the tickets, when Polish and Ukrainian prostitutes count their future profits: the championship among other matters is a holiday of [paid] love, the polish edition of Newsweek Polska writes. Gabriela is a so called "privatka". She is not protected by a pimp, and she receives the clients in her two-room flat in the center of Lodzi, which she hires at halves with her girl-frien...'

A lot of European supporters while choosing the way of traveling for EURO 2012 matches to Ukraine and Poland for sure considered using private cars. It’s a good idea because such a variant has a row of advantages. The main advantage is the almost complete independence regardless some exterior factors. If there is no matches in the city where you’ve accommodated you can always go sightseeing in the neighbor towns. Therefore, the nat...'

16 national teams, which partake in EURO 2012, shattered another intrigue of the upcoming tournament, i.e. made a definitive decision and selected training facilities. The final result was rather unpredictable, and, by the way, it’s very unpleasant for Ukraine. 13 of 16 teams preferred Poland’s cities to live and train in, during the next year June. Only participants of the “Ukrainian” group D – Ukraine, Sweden an...'

Vice Prime Minister – Minister of Infrastructure, Boris Kolesnikov, responsible for EURO 2012 issues in the Government, said that the newly constructed or renovated terminals will be put into operation by March, 2012. However, the major part of the construction and repair work would be completed by the end of 2011. “Kharkov airport is nearly completed along with the new runway,” commented Boris Kolesnikov. “Donetsk airp...'

We continue our introduction of the official UEFA fan zones in the EURO 2012 host-cities. Last time we’ve already talked about the two biggest areas for supporters in Kiev and Donetsk. Now it is Eastern Kharkov and Western Lviv that we are going to talk about. It’s very symbolic, that both host-cities of the European tournament, Kharkov and Lviv, decided to place fan zones at the similar address, Svobody Sq. and Svobody Av. respecti...'

The first tickets selling phase showed that demand for Ukrainian and Polish arenas is exceeding the supply, i.e. stadiums can’t seat all people that are going to come and see upcoming European championship battles. However, if you failed to purchase the tickets in the UEFA lottery, it’s not a reason to be upset and refuse to go to Ukraine and Poland. UEFA officials and local organizers are sure that everyone will be able to be a par...'

Donetsk, EURO 2012 host-city, is a newsmaker of the last week. Somebody Will Be Definitely Beaten Despite that serious measures are taken in order to prevent the violation and hooliganism at football stands during the tournament matches, the one of four Ukrainian stadiums will definitely will host a fight. Fortunately, it will be held within boxing bout! As it was informed previously in the mass media, world famous boxers Vitali and W...'

As soon as all 16 teams qualified for EURO 2012, UEFA was first in taking action and revealed seeding pots. Therefore, it was bookmakers who had the second reaction to the playoff qualifiers. Big British bookmaker agency has already started receiving bets for the European championship winners. So the leaders are Spain (coefficient 1/3.5), Germany (1/4.33). Netherlands are backwards (1/7) however, they’ve left behind Italy (1/11), England ...'