Euro 2012 news

This week, with 23 matches is starting qualifying campaign of European Football Championship 2012. The current Spanish champions will defend the title in fight with the visiting team of Liechtenstein. This is official reports site of UEFA.

After seven weeks and five days after the triumph in Johannesburg in the final 2010 World Cup squad Spain will hold its first official match. Two years ago in Vienna, Luis Aragones led Spain to the team long-awaited European title. Now the world champions will try the second time in a row to win the trophy, Henri Delaunay, which had not been able to do to anyone. The closest to this was the team of Germany - in 1976 with the rank of world and European champion Germans reached the final of the championship of the continent, where the team lost on penalties to Czechoslovakia.

The Spaniards are dreaming to start well fight in group I, and they are unlikely to encounter problems in a duel with Liechtenstein. The command team beat Spain in all four previous matches, not missing them not a single ball. Finalist of the 2010 World Cup team of Holland at the exit will clash with San Marino. Orange also won this opponent all four previous matches, always keep doors locked.

At Euro 2008 Germany team beaten by the Spanish in the final. In the final stage of Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, the Germans certainly try to go all the way to the end. In favor of squads Joachim Loew told a great game in South Africa and the whole deposit of promising players, who last year won the European championship among youth. The struggle in Group A wards Loew will start visiting fight with the Belgians. The reins of the team once again took Georges Leekens, who has worked with the national team. Within this same group the first official match at the helm of national team of Turkey will Guus Hiddink - the former coach the Russian team will leave with his new team in Kazakhstan. Russians are also in Group B will play away to Andorra, and this game will be the official debut for the ex-coach of Zenit Dick Advocaat.

In group C had already played one match, and he had almost finished sensation. In Tallinn, Estonia August 11 team scored two goals in stoppage time and snatched a victory over the Faroe Islands - 2:1. Now Estonians will take home team Italy in the match, which will be the official debut of coach skuadry Azzurro "Cesare Prandelli. In the first friendly match under the leadership Prandelli Italians lost Cote d'Ivoire. In Group D the French in Paris, will compete with a team of Belarus. Instructor "tricolor" Laurent Blanc in sparring with Norwegians try out a lot of beginners, but for a meeting with the Belarusians in the French team came back stronger.

The first of 23 matches, which will take place this week, was played at Thursday - a group of teams of Israel and Malta played. Today, champions of Europe 2004 Greeks, who used to life without Otto Rehhagel, under the leadership of Fernando Santos will meet with the Georgians. Team Georgia also decided on coaching permutation, and at the helm of the team was Timur Ketsbaya. Finally, the England squad, which tipped the first place in Group G, the house will take the Bulgarians, and the Portuguese in Guimarães try to regain the upper hand over Cyprus.

Note that the next year and a half qualifiers on the Ukrainian-Polish championship will be played on Fridays and Tuesdays, but not like before - on Saturdays and Wednesdays.