Opinion

The newly appointed manager of England national football team, Roy Hodgson has determined the final squad of his men for Euro-2012. Both fans and experts accepted ambiguously his decisions. The main surprise is the absence of the experienced defender Rio Ferdinand, veteran of the Manchester United FC and national squad! It should be expected something like this… No easy task The initial tasks of Hodgson were the following. There are tw...'

Probably we should have anticipated this... Literally one month before the start of Euro-2012 Ukraine as the host-country suffered another informational attack. A number of European politicians suggested boycotting European Championship in Ukraine. The official reason is repressions against political opposition and, in particular, unsatisfactory imprisonment conditions of Ukrainian Ex-Prime-Minister Julia Timoshenko. In any case, over a week ...'

Our today's review will be devoted to coaches in one way or another. It was they who were the main newsmakers in the small world called "Euro-2012 Preparation" over the last seven days: they were appointed to new positions, resigned and made important public statements... Surprise! Let's start with sizing up the finale of the prolonged and annoying series called 'Who Will Become a Leader of England's National Team?...'

Before we get to this week's review, let's say a few words about recent Euro-2012 match tickets' presentation, about which we've already written in detail. Markiyan Lubkivsky - the head of the European Championship's organizational committee in Ukraine - said an alerting phrase that in case of name's mismatch on ticket and in passport, the person will still be able to get to the stands without hindrance. We realize that ...'

Minus Peszko - plus Peszko? Two reputable Polish football players stood up for Sławomir Peszko, who was deprived from the national football team for drunken brawl and police arrest. It will be recalled that two weeks ago in Cologne, being under alcohol intoxication, Peszko argued with a taxi-driver and wanted to beat him up - for that he spent a night at the police station. Afterwards Franciszek Smuda, the manager of the Poles, showed the per...'

This week we have an interesting selection of news. Ukraine and Poland seem to have decided to launch a "black" pr-campaign one and a half month before Euro-2012. There was no such a number of loud, but more or less harmless for European Championship, scandals for a long time. And brother went against brother Ukrainian national team currently suffers from the conflict between players of the country's two best clubs - FC Dy...'

At the round table devoted to Euro-2012 that took place on April, the 4th in Kiev, the editor-in-chief of the biggest football edition in Ukraine "Football" Artem Frankov mentioned that all discussions about the level of preparation of the host-countries to the tournament, development of infrastructure, attraction of investments and many others will be forgotten as soon as the big football starts. Or rather, not just big, but interest...'

The leaders of English football fan associations and UEFA unanimously complain about comparatively low activity of British fans - the sales of tickets for the matches of "three lions" are allegedly low. And even - hard to believe this - for English-French duel! In fact the situation is not as bad as the football authorities try to picture it. According to our information, there are really a lot of unsold tickets in Group D (Ukra...'

This summer up to one million foreign fans will come to matches of the European Championship, and as hostess of the tournament Ukraine strives to create the most comfortable conditions of stay in the country for its guests. One of them is totally affordable and high-quality mobile connection! Considering that roaming is a pretty expensive pleasure, the foreign aficionados, who come to Ukraine and wish to stay in touch with their friends a...'

We are finishing the series of publications about coaches of the teams that are participants of Euro-2012. The last in turn is the Group D, the group, in which the official outsiders (Ukraine and Sweden) have, in fact, more chances than first-rate favorites (England and France). And such situation is managers' "fault", too. Ukraine. Oleh Blokhin The manager of the Ukrainian national team Oleh Blokhin is the cult person in ...'