Match Review

At last the continental national football teams have returned the lead of European clubs. Next Wednesday, on February 29, the football year can be considered completely open: a swarm of national teams will meet in friendly duels. By the calendar three complete months remain till Euro 2012, but the schedule of national teams' games evidently shows that the tournament is much closer: the majority of teams have only 2-3 friendly matches to pla...'

After a long break continental football - Champions League and European Football League - has returned to Europe. Congratulations everybody! However, club news can't force out national teams news from information field yet. Victims of crisis Greek national football team can fall outside of Euro 2012! The reason is the law on the state control over financial activity of football clubs accepted by the Greek parliament yesterday, on Februa...'

Our forecasts about certain leaving of group D of English National Team seem to be corrected. For some time past a strange behavior and not less strange statements of Englishmen's coach Fabio Capello prove his lack of self-confidence and confidence in his team. And if ordinary football votaries like us notice such things, the British team should be disappointed with the non-optimistic humor of their coach. Considering the importance of psy...'

Football stars of global scale and of lower ranks continue to compete in skill of prediction of the future European championship results. For football "Nostradamuses" the winner of Euro 2012 - for obvious reasons - is one of the most actual subjects. Though their opinions are not distinctive. Everybody tells about one of the most evident favorites: Spain and Germany. Marco Devych, the forward of Ukraine national football team (by the...'

As football season lasts from summer to summer, the football world tends to conclude the calendar year doing the same things: count up some statistics, filling up ballots, and of course, awarding some diamond/golden/silver statues to the pool winners. It’s well know fact that several Barcelona FC players became FIFA victors of 2011 (also FIFPro, International Federation of Football History & Statistics and other organizations that re...'

The most important event in the context of preparation for EURO 2012 finally took place! December 2, Kiev staged draw of the upcoming European championship. So lets’ skip songs and solemn speeches because we aren’t UEFA’s officials and get down to bedrock. Group A Poland Greece Russia Czech Republic The group A is a “host-group” because Poland was seeded there long before the draw and at the same time ...'

Conclusions made after the first leg of the playoffs that took place on November 11 were exact: there were no sensations, no sudden changes and turns and Fortune didn’t smile on anyone. Portugal 6-2 Bosnia and Herzegovina Is it utter defeat? Of course, it’s utter defeat. Locals were the real dominators though all game. It’s hard to believe that Bosnia and Herzegovina was about to qualify for EURO 2012: in the 41st, wh...'

Yesterday, November 11, took place first leg of the EURO 2012 qualifying playoffs. But the most interesting and strange thing is that these results aren´t astonishing, however, you cannot believe your eyes. Bosnia and Herzegovina 0-0 Portugal How strong Safet Sušić, Balkans´ coach, didn´t want a draw and how he desired to score a home goal… However, here comes nil-nil draw of the match. We already talke...'

Today, November 11, stadiums will host the first leg of EURO 2012 qualifying playoffs matches. Eight teams will try to guarantee “comfortable” results before the second leg (the last one) games. Let's see what players and their coaches, journalists, football experts and bookmaker think about the upcoming fights (the latter, to be honest, are the real experts though). Bosnia and Herzegovina - Portugal The first game is s...'

Group G Bulgaria 0-1 Wales Switzerland 2-0 Montenegro Everything was clear even before the last EURO 2012 qualifying round: England qualified for EURO 2012, Montenegro went for playoff ties. Moreover, the England didn’t play in the last round. So the matches weren’t interesting at all and could serve only for the statistics. In fact, Bulgaria is worth to be mentioned because it went down to the bottom and Wales that suddenly bega...'