EURO 2021

The anti-racism ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association has teamed up with the Football is Beautiful Foundation and numerous other partners for a joint ‘Friends of Football Day’ series of events taking place on 8 June to celebrate the power of football to unite across differences and promote social inclusion. More than 300 football matches, community festivals and other grass-roots events were organized across Poland on the ‘Friends of Football Day’, marking the anniversary of the kick-off of the historic European Football Championships which took place in Poland and Ukraine in 2012. A […]

The Poland-Ukraine World Cup qualifying game at the National Stadium in Warsaw provided an opportunity for both nations to celebrate the legacy of Euro 2012 through anti-racism and pro-diversity activities organized by the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association. Thousands of fans and hundreds of journalists received Polish and Ukrainian-language leaflets with information about anti-racist activities run by ‘NEVER AGAIN’ and the FARE network. An anti-discrimination manifesto was read out on the stadium tannoy shortly before kick-off and a video reminding of the Euro 2012 ‘Respect Diversity’ message was shown on the big […]

In the second match in Group D, Ukraine, the co-host of European Championships will play in the stadium in Kiev against the Swedish team. It is both Poles and Ukrainian ambition to advance from their group. Although Ukraine is one of the strong teams, they will have to measure their strength with much more stronger rivals than our national team. Their first challenge will be the team of Sweden and their leader Zlatan Ibrahimovic will surely want them to achieve a major success. According to bookmakers, Ukraine has a slight […]

On the 8th of June, sixteen countries will compete for the European Football Championship in Poland and Ukraine. The three-weeks tournament will display the essence of world football in the highly-competitive event: will it be the reigning champions Spain? Or is it England’s turn? Wait for a shocker – Greece? The Euro title holders, Spain, have the bookmakers on their side – but as we know, one can hardly predict a sport such as football. Germany and Holland are strong competitors to Spain, who should be on the lookout for […]

Rio Ferdinand, former England’s national team captain, defender of Manchester United, wasn’t nominated to the European football championships in Poland and Ukraine roster. On Wednesday, the head coach Roy Hodgson announced the names of 23 squad players. According to British Isles media speculations, Hodgson should have selected for Euro 2012 roster only one player from the pair John Terry (Chelsea London) – Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United). The reason should have been a conflict between both players, an aftermath of events from October 23, 2011. During a league match, defender of […]

The squad of Sweden consisting of 23 footballers nominated by the head coach Erik Hamren to participate in European football championships in Poland and Ukraine includes also the striker Johan Elmander, who plays for the Turkish club Galatasaray and was injured during a league match. The footballer got a right foot injury while playing on Saturday in the Turkish premier league against Fenerbahce Istanbul (0:0). An x-ray examination carried out immediately after the accident showed that the 30-year old Elmander fractured a metatarsal. Detailed medical examination was conducted after footballer’s […]

More and more politics, less and less sports. There is a real danger that European politicians will boycott the championships in Ukraine. Will EURO 2012 be the repetition from 1980 when West Europeans countries boycotted Olympic Games in Moscow due to the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan? The president of Germany Joachim Gauck was the first to cancel his participation at matches in Ukraine within the framework of EURO 2012; after that Angela Merkel and her ministers announced boycott of the Ukrainian part of EURO. Ukrainian Foreign Office shakes fists […]

New head coach Roy Hodgson, whose side are 9/1 with bookmaker to win Euro 2012, has warned fans not to expect too much from England in this summer’s European Championships.

Hodgson has been charged with trying to help the Three Lions to a first-ever maj…

In Ukraine we still didn’t manage to sell 50 thousand Euro 2012 tickets – UEFA informed on Monday, adding that not only high accommodation costs are to blamed for this situation. In Poland there are almost no tickets for matches available. – In Poland we are basically sold out. In Ukraine we still have around 50 thousand tickets, confirmed Pedro Correia, a UEFA official, responsible for all ticket-related issues. – It’s no secret that demand was far higher in Poland than in Ukraine, he added. Euro 2012 kicks off on […]

Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal, Real Madrid) Recently, the Portuguese is experiencing ones of his best moments in his current career. He has been scoring goals in series for Real Madrid team and is one of the main candidates to win the title of the best scorer in the Spanish Primera Division. If he is also the most effective at EURO, he will be the best football player of 2012. Zlatan Ibrahimović (Sweden, AC Milan) He is told to be past his best years, but Zlatan wants to surprise everybody during EURO. […]