Euro 2008 Poland Football Blog

UEFA checked this week to what extend is prepared Poland and Ukraine to Euro 2012. The officials from the European federation are convinced that Ukrainians will not be ready with new roads, hotels and airports. According to the Polish newspaper UEFA wants to move the final match or even the whole tournamnet to Poland.
UEFA is [...]

Leo Beenhaker stays on the position because as he said, after leaving the PZPN (Polish Football Association) conference, he will not dismiss himself because “I am not a type of person who is running away from fire”.
However, his Polish assistants quit - Bogusław Kaczmarek (resigned himself), Dariusz Dziekanowski and Adam Nawałka whose contracts have lapsed. [...]

UEFA has recently visited Poland to check how much progress their has been preparing for EURO 2012. They gave a positive assessment of Poland who will co-host the event with Ukraine.
Here is the statement of the progress:
“UEFA believes that the project is being managed professionally, in line with best practises and in close co-operation [...]

Poland have made an early exit from Euro 2008 Injurys made a major contribution to this along with some other problems they are addressed below.
The reasons why Poland ended up with the group B wooden spoon, Injuries! Beenhakker lost two members of his 23-man squad before the tournament began midfielder Jakub BÅ‚aszczykowski and goalkeeper Tomasz [...]

Polands European Championship has ended after just 3 games the question is will they get a chance to play in a major tournament again?
Some of the positive things for Poland from the Euro were:
Roger Guerreiro: Roger scored the only Polish goal at the Euro and was one of the best Polish players at the tournament. [...]

Poland have exited the 2008 Euro after suffering a 1-0 loss to a weakened Croatia. Poland went into the match needing to win and have Austria upset one of the tournament favourates Germany. This was always looking unlikely but you never know in sport. The Germans defeated Austria 1-0 with Ballack scoring a cracker of [...]

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Leo Beenhakker the Polish coach is hopefull of Poland making the final 8 but this next comment will reveal the truth:
Beenhakker said: “Maybe I can call my old friend Slaven Bilic and ask him to play his mother-in-law as a striker against Poland. But, apart from that, I can’t do much more. All we [...]

Coach Leo Beenhakker is hoping Poland can sneak into the UEFA EURO 2008â„¢ quarter-finals “through the back door” as he prepares his players for Monday’s critical Group B clash with Croatia in Klagenfurt.
Stakes couldn’t be higher for the Poles who need the win to keep their slim chance of playing quarter finals alive. Beenhakker had [...]

Stand in Captain Jacek BÄ…k is looking to make history by becoming the first Polish international to reach 100 caps. The 35 year old BÄ…k will play his 97 game against Croatia.
If Poland could go all the way to the final or if BÄ…k would continue to play after Euro he may still make [...]

Poland are likely to only have 90 more minutes of Euro 2008. After finishing on top of their qualilfying group in front of Portugal and Serbia they looked to be able to make it through the group stage at Euro 2008 it hasn’t been the case they didn’t look ready for the 1st game and [...]