The bid is not endangered

Poland-Ukraine bid for the right to host the European Football Championships in 2012 is not endangered.

- Poland-Ukraine bid for the right to host the European Football Championships 2012 is not in peril. On Monday, 12 the February, the required documentation will be taken to Kiev, and than on 14th February it will be submitted in the required graphic format (including 45 copies of the text) to the UEFA headquarters in Nyon (Switzerland). The deadline for submission of documentation elapses one day later - said Adam Olkowicz, the President of the PZPN Team for EURO 2012.

On Friday Tomasz Lipiec, the Minister of Sport of the Republic of Poland, signed the agreement guaranteeing that sport facilities in Warsaw will be put into operation if Poland wins jointly with Ukraine the rights to host EURO 2012.

Earlier on the same day, signing of this document was refused by the President of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, who stated that the areas of the Dziesięciolecie Stadium were not owned by the city and that city would not deploy any investments there.

Minister Lipiec informed that presidents of Gdańsk, Wrocław, Poznań, Krakow and Chorzów had signed such agreements earlier.

- The decision made by the minister of sport Tomasz Lipiec on signing the so-called stadium agreement means that the National Sport Centre will be created in Warsaw, whose main facility will be a stadium for 70 thousand spectators, where the official ceremony of championships opening, the inaugurating match and some other games, including the semi-final ones, are planned to be held – Olkowicz believes.

On 17th April the last, final presentation of the bids will take place. One day later the UEFA Executive Committee will select through a secret ballot the host of EURO 2012 from among the three candidates – Poland/Ukraine, Croatia/Hungary or Italy.

PZPN, 10th February 2007