Construction of the stadium in Gdansk

In Gdansk the company to complete the first phase of the foundation for the construction of the Euro 2012 stadium was selected. Works set in December 2008 and will last six months.

Tender commission of BIEG 2012, after a detailed analysis of the documents, the contractor chosen to carry out the foundations and land reclamation works. Among the seven proposals, the most profitable one, it turned out that Wakoz of the company, said a company representative on the control of Gdansk stadium construction, Mikhail Kruszyński.

He addend, the company said it will complete the contract within six months on charges of 102 million zlotys net. The same company is responsible for the preparatory excavation work at the construction site the stadium in Wroclaw.

Baltic Arena (Polish: Arena Bałtycka) is a multi-use stadium in Gdansk in Letnica district, Poland, which will be built for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship. Stadium 'exterior is designed to resemble amber, which has long drawn on the Baltic coast. Construction began in 2008. Upon completion in 2010, it will be used mostly for football matches. The stadium will have a capacity of 44,000 people.

"The agreement with the selected company will be signed after seven days of the announcement of the results of the tender. The works will be gone by the end of December." Mikhail Kruszyński explained. Design for the construction of the stadium is 92 volumes of documentation and the contractor is a company Rhode Kellermann-Wawrowsky.

At this time on a construction site, a specialized company is looking for possible unexploded ordnance, as we have decided to pull double-check the area prior to construction. It is well-known fact that the city has been the theater of many battles and skirmishes during the Second World War, so it can not be determined that there are no unpleasant surprises waiting for the subway. "Said Kruszyński. He added that the bomb disposal team working on the site of the future stadium had 30 days to complete its work.

"If the experts find something, they inform the police, who in turn notify the Army. Specialists secure and dispose of explosive. The company performs a search is made up of highly specialized professionals", Kruszyński In addition, the added.

Field, where the three group matches and quarter-football European Championship in 2012 to be held, scheduled for the end of 2010, so that next spring games could be played there. The stadium concept involves not only a football game, as well as various kinds of conferences and symposiums to be held in the VIP rooms.
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Turkey is ready to host Euro 2012 if Ukraine, Poland failed

Turkey offered to host the 2012 European Football Championship, if Ukraine and Poland, co-organizer of the largest European football organizations, back to the economic shocks that have affected Ukraine, Turkish sports minister said on Wednesday.

Turkish State Minister for Sports Murat Basesgioglu told a parliamentary committee meeting that Turkey hosted a major international sporting events in the past and can competently host Euro 2012.

News reports earlier said that Ukraine is in a severe financial crisis threatening the country's capacity to host the European championship in 2012, most construction projects have stalled due to a liquidity crisis.

Ukraine is a joint championship with neighboring Poland, but both were warned several cases of UEFA, European soccer governing body, to expedite preparations for the organization.

Poland football chief suggested at the end of October, that Germany could replace Ukraine as co-host Euro 2012.
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Drzewiecki: Warsaw is ready for the best Euro 2012

Minister of Sport visited Pomerania on Saturday, where he attended the opening of the next two sites included in the program "My Playground Orlenok 2012".

Replying to a question about opinion on the state of preparations for the European football championships in Poland Drzewiecki-Minister stated that he had recently participated in a series of meetings, the organizer of the cities of Representatives.

"I can say that today in a better position, unlike in the beginning, is located in Warsaw, so the stadium is actually under construction, despite the fact that it all began in the end. The tender was successfully completed. The old stadium, turned the market is over, pick up trash, and now piled foundations, and is now done, everything is fine, and it seems that they will be ready in time. "he said to journalists.

He also praised the preparations in Gdansk, where - he said - detailed engineering 80% complete.

"I am confident in Gdansk, as it followed the example of Warsaw with the National Center for Sports closely and NCS-U, which is the Ministry of Sports and the company is probably a very good choice, because if I were to assess Wroclaw, there is another type of situation : they are constructions, but no detailed engineering. The attempt to "design and build" tender good idea, but I can not be sure if he would not postpone the construction of the stadium in Wroclaw at the end of six months. "The minister said Drzewiecki.

He noted that Poland is preparing for Euro 2012, as if the Games were to take place in six cities.

"Because they are more cities in Poland, they need their own soccer stadiums, in any case, regardless of whether the euro will be there or not. These long-term investments and required of them too," minister of sport continues.

Another two sets of soccer fields were built as part of the "My Playground Orlenok 2012" program, have been built in Stężyca and Chojnice. They were 69 th and 70-game sets built in Poland in the framework of this program.

Region Pomerania is a leader in the program, which is important for children and young people. Our goal is to build more than 2,000 such facilities in the next four years, "he said at the opening of the site in Stężyca.

The head of the Ministry of Sports and Tourism asked the young people attending the celebration and said that he would pull players, if he had the opportunity to use one of the "Eaglets", when he was a child.
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So Germans want to Euro 2012?

"The Germans have been negotiating with UEFA to host Euro-2012 from Ukraine," said Franz Beckenbauer to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

Beckenbauer, German football and FIFA vice-president of the coalition acknowledged that in Ukraine the problem with the organization of the tournament because of the global economic crisis and political instability in Ukraine have forced UEFA to come up with a plan B. "This is not a secret that we are working negotiations in Zurich for our action if Ukraine does not meet the deadline. One such solution might be a Euro2012 in Poland and Germany.", "Emperor" he said.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung wrote that such a scenario has been talked about in his head, and UEFA, Michel Platini was finely Europe preparing to face a change in host Euro 2012. It is guaranteed that in recent years, if Ukraine fails, Poland, of course, will not be holding the tournament on its own. "One of the possibilities considered by UEFA's tournament is moving to Spain. The other, with the support of Beckenbauer, changes in Poland, a partner of Ukraine to Germany, as well as some games in Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin.

"Let's wait until the next meeting of UEFA's executive committee on 30 January. Then it will become clear whether the Kiev stadium is likely to be ready on time. Without it, as Platini said Euro 2012 will not be held in Ukraine - said Beckenbauer.
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