UEFA will not help Legia
Wednesday, 14 May 08, 05:05 PM
If the hooligans wearing Legia scarves will lead to a burd in the UEFA Cup matches, second team of Polish Premier League will be excluded from European competitions for at least two years.
Even if the club will not have anything in common with them.
President of the Legia Warszawa - Leszek Miklas - has announced in the "Poland" newspaper, that the club will not in any way be involved in organizing trips to the UEFA Cup matches.
President of the Legia Warszawa - Leszek Miklas - has announced in the "Poland" newspaper, that the club will not in any way be involved in organizing trips to the UEFA Cup matches.
- We will just inform UEFA that we're not sending any supporters to away matches. If the fans choose to go on their own and start a riot, then the club will not be held liable - Miklas said.
Wrong! Article sixth of the UEFA disciplinary says that the club during cup matches takes responsibility for everyone: from the players to the supporters.
- It does not matter whether Legia will organize a trip or not, it will be involved. Just because the troublemakers will wear T-shirts and scarves with the logo of the club. It is enough to penalties - press office of UEFA representative ays.
What does this mean for Legia? Warsaw club was already excluded from European cup for two years after the riots at the Intertoto Cup match with Vetra Vilnius. The Appeals Board has suspended the execution of the sentence. But it had announced that if within five years it comes to incidents involving fans of Legia, the club wiould be treated more severely - it would have to pay 15 000 FRF and definitely would be excluded from the cups.
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Beenhakker: This is a great shame for Poland
Wednesday, 14 May 08, 03:15 PM
Michal Listkiewicz: - Nothing much has happened. Beenhakker: It is a great shame for Poland. Organizer, who is responsible for all this is not suited to this work. If I did something such
stupid as a coach, I would have been sacked
In 77th minute of Polish Cup Final pseudofans of Legia Warszawa started to throw flares into the sector occupied by the supporters of Wisla Krakow. There have been fights, the match was interrupted for 10 minutes.
In 77th minute of Polish Cup Final pseudofans of Legia Warszawa started to throw flares into the sector occupied by the supporters of Wisla Krakow. There have been fights, the match was interrupted for 10 minutes.
- This is a great shame for Poland. Polish football doesn't have a good image in the world anyway, do you think that these incidents will improve it? Anyone who was involved in organising the finals, should be ashamed. They could think reasonably and avoid a blame - says Leo Beenhakker. - The choice of the stadium was the first of errors. I respect residents of Bełchatów, I know that Poland does not have modern stadiums, but - for God's sake - everyone knows that there's a rivalry between hooligans of Legia and Wisla, they must be separated. One should be in the sector next to one goal, the others next to the second one. And here they couldn't be separated, because the sector next to one of the goals was being repaired. No, but someone has decided that the match would take place in Bełchatówand supporters sat next to each other ...
- I do not care whether it was Polish Football Association (PZPN) or PPPO [to decide about this], it shouldn't happen! Above all, I hear yet complaints of Wisla's coach Maciej Skorża that Wisla players who didn't manage to accomodate on the benches, had to sit in the stands among hooligans. This is just unthinkable! I say this, but the organizer, who is responsible for all of this, is just not suited for this work. If I did something such stupid as a coach, I would have been sacked. And it would be proper thing to sack me in such case. But here I see only shrugs: "It just happened."
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Matches with only the one kind of beer?
Tuesday, 13 May 08, 06:12 PM
During Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine fans watching matches on urban streets will probably drink a lot of beer. It is going to be, however, only one beer brand - the official sponsor of the championships. Such is the request of UEFA.
- Strict protection of trademarks, industrial designs and slogans will highlight the Polish-Ukrainian championships - ensures mec. Tomasz Zahorski from PL2012 company - preparations coordinator for the event.
Therefore, for example, beer gardens, where matches will be shown on the large telebeams will be managed only by the official sponsor of
championships (we do not know yet, who it will be, EURO 2008 is sponsored by Carlsberg). Yesterday, in Poznan the representatives of Polish cities - host Euro 2012 were listening
to Zahorski's words.
- In terms of protection of trademarks, industrial designs and exclusivity to sponsors and UEFA championships we will be more efficient than the Austrians and Swiss, who are organising the Euro this year - says Zahorski. - And we will not be waiting for UEFA intervention to show that its interests were affected.
This means that no one except for the official sponsors of Euro 2012 will not be able to use the characters championships - for example, logotype or the masscote. Above all, we will not be able to also use their product, which is the matches. This means that without a license from UEFA, no one will be able to show publicly Euro 2012 matches on screens larger than three-meter-diameter.
- And UEFA federation will not give it to anyone who is competing with its official sponsors - says Zahorski.
Matches on telebeams larger than three metres in beer gardens would then be able to show only the brewery, which is the official sponsor of the championships.
- We are surprised by this, but obviously we will show in our beer gardens only those sporting events to which we have the right - says Eliza Panek, spokeswoman for the group Zywiec. - Beer gardens have been, are and will be, because we did not put them only for the Euro. They serve the cause of creating a habit that there you watchsport. Without a concrete indication of the event and discipline.
Does this mean that all the breweries - except the official sponsor of Euro 2012 - will earn less than they might be expecting?
- You can not predict that, because on the one hand, the correlation between broadcasting the match and consumption of beer is obvious, but on the other - a particular viewer of the TV can buy whatever beer they like - says Eliza Panek.
Employees of PL2012 company already say that the European Championships in 2012 are going to get better organized in many ways than this June in Austria and
Switzerland.
- They lacked coordination. Austrians acknowledge that because of its lack of effort they've wasted a lot of effort of different cities. They also got too little in negotiations with UEFA. We will do otherwise - provides Marcin Herra, President of PL2012. - The Euro is going to be in four years from now on, and we know already what we are going to do. For example, we're already planning to extend the subway route for the National Stadium. Austrians did the same in Vienna just before, three weeks before the event. We are at the stage of discussions about details, specific streets.
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