EURO 2021

Bosnia, Herzegovina and Hungary will be competitors of Ireland national team in the final period of preparations for the European Championships, which from June 8 to July 1 will be held in Poland and Ukraine. The Ireland national team will play with Bosnia and Herzegovina on May 26 at Aviva Stadium in Dublin and with Hungary on June 4 in Budapest. Between these meetings they will stay at a training camp in Montecatini in Italy. During the championships the players of the Italian coach Giovanni Trapattoni will stay in the […]

The Euro 2012 playoff draw was held Thursday in Krakow, Poland. The winners of these four home-and-home series will get the final four berths at next summer’s tournament, joining the 12 teams that have already qualified. The entire tournament will be televised on ESPN networks. Here are notes and Soccer Power Index projections for the four matchups. Turkey vs. Croatia This is a rematch of their dramatic Euro 2008 quarterfinal, when Croatia’s Ivan Klasnic scored an apparent winner in the 119th minute. But Turkey’s Semih Senturk tied it in stoppage […]

Sunday’s draw for the Euro 2012 Championships qualifying competition was finished. Each team in the qualifying groups will play one another on a home and away basis, with matches taking place up to October 2011. The nine group winners and the best runner-up qualify directly for the final tournament. The eight remaining runners-up will contest two-legged play-offs to decide who gets the four remaining places.     Euro 2012 qualifying draw: Group A: Germany, Turkey, Austria, Belgium, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan Group B: Russia, Slovakia, Republic of Ireland, Macedonia, Armenia, Andorra Group […]