Leo Beenhakker has announced the list of players for the match with USA on 26th March 2008. The list of players who will go to EURO 2008 is going to be announced right after this match, so we could expect not many changes. Although:

"This is the squad only for the match with USA, we are not closing the door for anyone. The list is not set in stone." - said Dariusz Dziekanowski, Leo Beenhakker's assistant.

But my personal feeling is that changes in this list are going to be done only in the case of injury.

Goalkeepers: Artur Boruc (Celtic Glasgow), Tomasz Kuszczak (Manchester United), Lukasz Fabianski (Arsenal)

No surprises. Artur Boruc's position in the squad is inarguable and these three are simply the best Polish goalkeepers, despite Kuszczak and Fabianski being only reserve goalkeepers in their teams. ...

So... 84 days left to EURO 2008 and Polish national team loses 2-3 to the team made from foreign players playing in Orange Ekstraklasa. Nothing to be happy about.

For Leo Beenhakker's excuse, the team wasn't actually Polish national team, at least not in the sense of EURO 2008 - from the first squad we could see Jacek Krzynowek, Tomasz Zahorski and Jakub Wawrzyniak. It was a team made from players playing in Polish teams (+Jacek Krzynowek and Lukasz Piszczek). In spite of that, it was clear that the foreigners outclass Polish players technically.

The problem is also (as I've been already writing before) the fact, that key players in possible Polish squad for EURO are not playing in their teams. Jacek Krzynowek and Lukasz Piszczek were playing in this match simply because they haven't played in their teams for weeks. Said that, I can't ignore the form of Krzynowek - even if he's not good...

Michal Listkiewicz - the president of Polish Football Association said in the interview with Gazeta Wyborcza that Polish Football Association and Legia Warsaw do everything they can to get Polish citizenship for Legia's player - Roger. This Brazilian player supposedly has been noticed by Polish coach - Leo Beenhakker and another rumour states that he would be playing in Polish national team on Euro 2008!

Personally, I have nothing against foreign players playing in Polish national team. On World Cup 2002 in Korea and Japan our main striker was Olisadebe who got Polish citizenship also basically to be able to play in Polish national team. Some people claim that the difference between these two players is significant: Olisadebe had married the Polish girl and he was the lead player in WC 2002 qualifications. He was...

Today Poland played against Estonia. Leo Beenhakker continues testing of the players playing in Orange Ekstraklasa and as he has the unique ability to find out new football talents, we could see the whole new group of players.

None of the Polish players in this match had played more than 12 matches in Polish national team and some of them were completely unknown.

The match started with good oportunity to score in 2. minute after free-kick of Michal Golinski, but the ball hit the post.

In 11. minute Kamil Grosicki passed the ball to Radoslaw Matusiak, but Pavel Landak - Estonian goalkeeper was faster. He has shown again that he's the most active player of Estonian team again in 20. minute when he blocked Matusiak again.

Estonians started to do actually something on the field...

"(...) this couldn't have come at a better time for us, he is pretty much their key player in euro and he is a very good striker, he would have caused us some serious problems, so i see this as a good thing for us."

This comment about Eduardo's injury makes me feel ashamed for being from Poland. Unfortunately this is very popular approach: we support a team, so we would like to see them winning regardless of costs. In the need for victories we forget about fair play.

Actually is there any fair play left? Even really nice custom of kicking the ball outside the field when the opposing player was injuried was twisted, so that now teams demand it when one of their players is laying (and lying) on the grass faking.

Back to Eduardo, Croatia and Polish... fans? Do you think that guys with such attitude can be called "fans"?

Since the last FIFA ranking Poland has been promoted by three places and currently is on 20. position.

First nine places are without changes. We can see a lot of movements of African teams after recently finished Africa Cup of Nations. The bronze-medallist Ghana has been promoted from 43. position to 19.

From Polish rivals in UEFA EURO Cup 2008 ranked the highest is Germany - 5th position. Croatia is 12th and Austria - 84th.

FIFA ranking for 13th February 2008 (in brackets previous position):

I said that I'm going to write something more about TVP in regards of Polish football national team, but another topic interested me lately - Polish goalkeepers.

Currently Poland is in the middle of big national discussion about who should and who should not go to EURO 2008. From all Polish players playing in top world leagues, our goalkeepers have the strongest position in their teams, therefore the biggest part of this discussion is focused on them.

Who do we have to choose from?

Artur Boruc - Celtic Glasgow
Currently number 1 in Polish national team. He did really well in World Cup 2006 (he was one of few Polish players we didn't have to be ashamed for, to be more precise) and right now it seems that he's in his top form. I would be really surprised if he wasn't chosen by Leo Beenhakker.

Tomasz Kuszczak - Manchester United.
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Polish public television (TVP) and commercial TV station (Polsat) still haven't agreed on the terms of showing EURO 2008 matches in TVP.

Polsat is the transmission rights owner for Poland, which it had bought for 15 millions euro. It was agreed that TVP will buy rights to show 16 from 31 matches (including all Polish matches, the opening match and the final) for 9 millions euro. All of the matches would be independently shown on Digital Polsat - paid, encrypted channels of Polsat.

All was agreed, but no one from TVP has shown up on the meeting with certifying notary to sign the agreement. They suddenly changed their offer to be 25% lower.

The owner of Polsat - Zygmut Solorz-Zak said:

"We are not going to negotiate with TVP any longer. EURO 2008 matches will be shown only on our channels. Their time is up. Fans should not blame us, only TVP for not...

Friendly match has just ended. Poland won 2-0 after goals of Wojciech Lobodzinski (6.) and Mariusz Lewandowski (29.) which, in my personal opinion, was really bad.

I'm not talking about the performance - it's nice that Poland wins with sixth team of the world (even if with their second squad), but the problem is about Polish mentality. This "success" (again, I'm not denying the score - we have won with Czech Republic, sixth team of the world and I'm really happy about that) is going to be memorized and analyzed until EURO 2008 and the expectations are going to be really, REALLY, high (as always, to be honest). I've just checked Polish sport pages - they all say "If we've won with Czech Republic, why not with Germany?". Why not? Because we have only Artur Boruc who is playing in the first squad in strong (still not top-class, but strong enough) team. The rest either sit on the substitution bench, or they struggle in...