Comments on: Will Euro 2012 take place in Poland and Ukraine?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:20:16 +0000

All the updates on euro 2012 at http://www.euro2024.co.uk

By: sergey

sergey — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:15:49 +0000

Latest news about preparation in Poland and Ukraine for Euro-2012.
http://euro-2012news.com/euro-2012-dnepr opetrovsk-has-run-out-of-money/

By: karen

karen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:25:20 +0000

Learned a lot from this, thank you. http://www.soccershop.com

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:22:06 +0000

Indeed. And the footballing powers that be were strangely, ahem, quiet when the Russian government put the boot into that country’s FA. Conclusion: nothing like having muscle if you want to escape criticism. Plus the Poles are over a barrel on this, because they can’t afford to get into a (legitimate)fight with FIFA and UEFA at this crucial stage.

By: Red Devil

Red Devil — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:16:16 +0000

Jonas is right. UEFA’s policy of no government interference was probably designed to stop exactly the opposite – corrupt or autocartic governments taking over soccer bodies but it turned out the other way round in practice. In Serbia, for instance, the government quite simply had to step in to clean up the country’s FA that was rotten from top to bottom.

By: Vitaliy

Vitaliy — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:16:54 +0000

@ Jonas, well said. More evidence to this is that UEFA only recently created a six-man anticorruption to deal with illegal betting and league corruption.

By: Mark Meadows

Mark Meadows — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:01:38 +0000

I think you have absolutely got it in one there, Jonas

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:53:08 +0000

It\’s curious how UEFA, and FIFA even more so, go crazy about \”government interference\” and yet seem to have very little (at best) to say about corruption problems in the Polish FA. They remind me of the banking lobby, which gets all up in arms about government intervention, despite having been totally incapable of applying self-regulation properly. The basic message seems to be let corruption alone, don\’t interfere. Whatever one\’s view about the politics of this Polish government, and its predecessor, they at least tried to do something to clean up the game. Maybe Warsaw didn\’t let on that the crackdown was coming because it feared UEFA and FIFA would tip off their mates….And why does an anti-corruption operation cast doubts on Poland\’s ability to host Euro 2012 in any case?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:52:14 +0000

I don’t think that there is nothing wrong with Poland, I mean they had some arguments but that’s all. They can afford to build all the hotels, stadiums, restaurants, etc… in time. On the other hand I’m not sure if Ukraine is up to it. You may think that Poland and Ukraine are dirty, full of gangster, etc.. that’s only if you live in rural areas. Do you really think that Poles will host Euro in a poor neighborhood??? They’re not that stupid, you know. I’ve been in Poland before and in fact it is a beautiful country. Check out some pictures on google or Poland’s traveling agencies. Please do not talk bullshi…. about Poland if you’ve never been there.

By: V

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:03:48 +0000

I suggest that before people make comments on whether they think that Poland and Ukraine are not ready they take a look at the facts. Ukraine has just had an opening ceremony on one of the new Stadiums and another one is about finished. Poland has currently all stadiums except one under construction. There is 4 years left till 2012 and stadium construction takes 2 years. Poland is following or exceeding the schedule that was approoved by UFA when they actually go these games.