A organização do campeonato da Europa de 2012 foi há já algum tempo atribuída à Polónia e à Ucrânia, mas nada é definitivo...
«UEFA president Michel Platini said on Saturday that a final decision whether Poland and Ukraine will host the 2012 European Championship will come in September in Bordeaux, France. (...)
"This will answer all the questions that you have. At the last meeting of (the executive committee) in Zagreb, we asked the two countries to wake up and we gave them four months to show us progress. In September, we will examine the situation again." (...)
Poland and Ukraine were surprisingly awarded the championships ahead of Italy and a co-hosted bid by Croatia and Hungary in April last year.
Warsaw is set to stage the opening game in a new national stadium, but work has not yet started. Kiev will hold the final in its redeveloped Olympic stadium, but similar construction delays have led to repeated speculation UEFA has plans for a backup host, possibly Italy, Germany or Scotland.»
No encontro de 23 de Setembro será também anunciada a decisão sobre a proposta de aumentar o número de selecções participantes na fase final do Europeu, de 16 para 24. Uma boa oportunidade para pedir autorização para inscrever a Madeira como membro da UEFA...
de um artigo do CNN.com World Sport
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