Ukraine and Poland to host Euro 2012

The corruption scandals and insane security measures in Italy probably took away the hosting of Euro 2012 from the once favorite to win. Ukraine and Poland won the vote in Cardiff and will jointly host the games in 2012. Another joint bid was from Croatia and Hungary, but unfortunately to the citizens of those countries, it did not get any votes at all.

A great presentation by the Ukraine-Poland committee was staged on Tuesday, featuring some of the countries' famous football players - Shevchenko and Dudek. They were considered the underdogs until the last minute, which came to show that all bids were worthy of presentation.

The 2012 games will be played in four Ukrainian cities- Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Lviv, and six Polish - Warsaw, Gdansk, Krakow, Poznan, Wroclaw and Chorzow.