During two years Ukrainians has done more than over the last 20 years

- Said the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov in the interview on May, 25 to Polskiemu Radiu (Polish radio)

Ukraine and Poland outgunned in 2007 Italy, Hungary and Croatia the right to host the European Football Championships in 2012 and have been actively preparing for the competition during four years so that eventually to take the opportunity not only to show the world its ability to organize sports events at this scale but also to focus on the region's leading countries of the Central and Eastern European countries, which have shown a keen interest in football. Although, they can not boast of such achievements on the field as the Western teams do. So the main task of the leadership of both countries was the holding of Euro 2012 at a high European level.

Yulia TSYRFA