Poland Soccer Team Road To Euro 2012

Sport News 2012-Preparations for Euro 2012 which made Poland, who played in several stadiums in Europe for the tournament next summer, can be run properly assessed.

Franciszek Smuda squad lost only twice in the last ten games, suffered defeat against Italy and France.

Poland also managed to make a surprise to Argentina and almost beat one of the favorites to win Euro 2012, Germany, if they do not concede in the last minute.

However, Poland also experienced poor results when in their records before the tournament was held. They suffered defeat with the score 2-0 by Lithuania, where the entry into Poland's worst points.

Polandia Football Team

Although Poland has been following the World Cup six times, they only qualified for the tournament only once the Euro in 2008.

Polandia Football Team

In that year, Poland failed to qualify from group stage of Euro 2008, although they became a group leader when qualifying phase.

Poland failed to win even once in group B, after losing to Germany and Croatia and drew with Austria. It makes them inhabit caretaker.

As one host Euro 2012, Poland hopes take advantage of their opportunity to escape from the group stage. A thing that is quite difficult, considering two host Euro 2008, Austria and Switzerland, failed to qualify from group stage.


Franciszek Smuda, a former defender who spent the majority of his career in Poland and the United States, replacing Leo Beenhaker position in October 2009 after the Dutchman failed to bring Poland into the 2010 World Cup.

Robert Lewandowski Polandia Striker

Smuda has a very rich managerial experience, he has trained in Germany and Turkey before returning to his homeland and coached the club Widzew Lodz.

The club returned to the top division with Smuda, who later took the title with Wisla Krakow in 1999.

63-year-old coach also won the Polish Cup with Lech Poznan and Zaglebie Lubin joined in August 2009, and one week later he was pulled by the national team.

Players who become part of the squad 2010/11 Bundesliga champion Borussia Dortmund, Blaszczykowski has listed over 100 appearances since joining there in 2007.

And now he's approaching 50 caps with the national team, Blaszczykowski has been given a captain's position since a year ago by Smuda and Poland became the best player in 2010, having previously earned in the year 2008.

Wojciech Szczesny Polandia Goalkeeper

Hamstring injury kept him out at Euro 2008, so the player who plays as a winger that will strive to provide the best for his country later.

Fellow captain club Poland Blaszczykowski, Lewandowski scored eight goals for Dortmund and has matched the achievement this early in the season 2011/12.

By the age of 23 years, a player who plays as a striker has become one of the youngest players in the squad, but he has recorded 40 caps and 13 goals for Poland and it seems he will be the top scorer of Poland in the years to come.

If Lewandowski can bring captivating performance in Dortmund in the Euro 2012 tournament, then Poland will have a dangerous weapon in the summer.

After displacing the position of goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski as Arsenal, it seems Szczesny will start to become the top choice goalkeeper for Euro 2012 Poland.

Polandia Squad Football Team

Szczesny is the youngest player in the squad for Poland in November against Italy and Hungary in a test match, and he will be aged 22 years when the tournament was held.

Being a first-choice goalkeeper in such a young age [golden age when the goalkeeper judged near 30-year-old players] make Szczesny likely to become one of Poland's biggest talents in the next few years.