Poland – Greece Euro 1- 2012: head to dead, formations and result

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Davide

Poland-Greece 1-1

Scorers: 17’ Lewandowski; 51’ Salpingidis

Poland: Szczesny; Piszczek, Wasilewski, Perquis, Boenisch; Polanski, Muravski; Blaszczykowski,Obraniak, Rybus (70’ Tyton); Lewandowski. Team manager.: F: Smuda.

Greece: Chalkias; Torosidis, Papastathopoulos, A. Papadopoulos (38’ K. Papadopoulos), Holebas; Maniatis, Katsouranis, Karagounis; Ninis (46’ Salpingidis), Gekas (67’ Fortounis), Samaras. Team manager: F. Santos.

Referee: Velasco Carballo (Spaing)

Warning: Papastathopoulos, Holebas and Karagounis.

Sent off: Papastathopoulos at 44′ and Szczesny at 69’.

Notes: at 71’ Tyton cleared a penalty by Karagounis.

Poland does not manage to win Euro 2012 first match: one of the hosting nations has been recovered by Greece after having dominate first half. Lewandowski’s gol and the sending off of Papastathopoulos at the end of the first half seemed to have smooth the way to Polish team. However, Greek team manager Fernando Santos has been the real protagonist of the match: he has added Salpingidis at the beginning of the second half and Panathinaikos forward changed the match, scoring after six minutes and obtaining a penalty in the middle of second half: Polish goalkeeper Szczesny has been sent off, but Tyton, Poland reserve goalkeeper, has cleared the shot of Karagounis.

Before the match

Poland – Greece Euro 2012

Poland – Greece, match of European Championships 2012, will be played in Warsaw at Stadion Narodowy on Friday, June 8th at 18:00 . Poland and Greece belong to Euro 2012 Group A. Continue reading →

Wroclaw: places to be visited, ruotes and events

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Davide

breslavia panorama

A view from Wroclaw

Wroclaw, situated in the the southwestern part of Poland, on the border between Czech Republic and Germany, is the historical capital of Silesia and the current capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It will be also the European Capital of Culture in 2016.

Wroclaw symbols are the gnomes: city roads are full of little statues representing gnomes and of maps which localize them (city gnomes would be two hundreds according to the popular tradition).
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Poznan: places to be visited, routes and events

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Davide

Poznan, panorama

A view from Poznan

Poznan is situated on the bank of the river Warta, it is one of the most important cultural, industrial and commercial Polish centres. It is also an important international trade show center. Continue reading →

Kyiv: places to be visited, routes and events

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Davide

kiev, panorama

A view from Kiev

Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine: it is one of ten largest European towns thanks to its 2.600.000 inhabitants shared among ten quarters. Its location, along the east bank of the river Dnieper, makes Kyiv a very important river port.

Industrial activity is expanded, in particular in the chemicals, mechanical, texile and footwear divisions.

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Donetsk: places to be visited, routes and events

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Davide

Donetsk, panorama

A view from Donetsk

Donetsk is now a city of two milions and half inhabitants with a heavy concentration of industrial business. Originally it was a miner town with chemical and mechanical industries.

Donetsk, one of Euro 2012 hosting cities

Donetsk is one of the cities which will host 2012 European Football Championships. It is also home to Shakhtar, one of the two most important national football teams as well Uefa Cup winner in 2009.

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