Johan Elmanders fot spricker – och vad spricker med den? Kreativiteten finns ju. Kunnandet också. Men vem i hela världen ska ersätta Elmanders energi?
Apart from the soccer match venues, by far the most excitement during this summer’s Euro 2012 tournament will take place in fan zones located in each of the eight host cities in Poland and Ukraine.
The zones will be the places where thousands of fans get entertained from morning to night. In them, gigantic large screens will broadcast all 31 games live, and plenty of food, beverages, souvenirs, and other amenities will keep guests occupied on match and non-match days alike. Europe’s top soccer governing body – UEFA – is allocating up to 1 million euros to each host city for equipment and branding, while taxpayers’ money will cover the remainder of costs in some cities.
The following is a brief description of each fan park in Ukraine:
Kyiv: Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square)
Where else to base the nation’s largest fan zone but on the capital’s main square, where throngs of protesters peacefully helped overturn a fraudulent presidential election in 2004?
The fan zone will run along Khreshchatyk Street between Instytutska and Khmelnytsky streets with a capacity of nearly 70,000, according to Kyiv authorities. Kyiv city manager Oleksandr Popov said the fan zone will be expanded on the final match day to accommodate 92,000 fans.
Restaurant group Kozyrna Karta was selected as the general operator. UEFA is providing 1 million euros for the zone, and the government has awarded 40,000 euros to another company to set up the fan zone.
All 31 matches will be broadcast live on four giant screens.
Entrance will be free and will include entertainment, such as football skill tests, five-a-side pitches, live concerts and DJ sets, as well as a full range of food and drinks.
Hours will be from noon to 1 a.m.
Kiev Post
Från The Telegraph idag:
Background information and travel advice to the cities of Kiev, Donetsk, Lviv and Kharkiv in the Ukraine.
Kiev
Built alongside the River Dnieper, Kiev is a grand sweep of a city gradually recovering the self-confidence that characterised it before the Soviet era. Dominated by the giant Mother Motherland statue (think the Angel of the North, but with Brunhilde bosoms and a 60ft sword), its hilly, undulating streets are crammed with historic architecture that largely survived the war. St Sophia, its 11th-century cathedral, is a match for Moscow’s St Basil, while the Monastery of the Caves, the headquarters of the Ukrainian Orthodox church, sits atop an extraordinary labyrinth of caverns, which are open to the public.
Much of the city is being pedestrianised for the tournament and giant screens will be erected in sites such as Independence Square. Matches, including England versus Sweden on June 15 and the final, will be played in the recently refurbished Olympic Stadium, home of Dinamo Kiev, which sits right in the heart of the city.
The best restaurant to retire to in victory or defeat is Pervak, where the portions are best described as mountainous. Opposite is the Lucky Pub sports bar containing more screens than a TV store.
Jim White
Donetsk
The local mayor has done his best to spruce up the city, ordering the planting of thousands of roses in public parks and surrounding the football stadium with blooms. But there is no disguising Donetsk’s purpose. Heavy industry is evident right in the centre, where pitheads and creaking old chemical works can be found opposite some of the smarter shopping outlets of the new economy. What it lacks in swank, however, the town makes up for in earthy unpretentiousness.
Bars abound, music pumps out loud, nightclubs are packed; Friday night can match Newcastle for its raucousness. England will play twice in the magnificent Donbass Arena, built by Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest oligarch and the generous benefactor of the local club, Shakhtar. He also owns Pushkin, the town’s best restaurant, where the clientele look much as you might imagine the guests on Roman Abramovich’s yacht look.
JW
Lviv
Historically and culturally, Lviv is the most Western-orientated city in Ukraine, closer to Krakow than Kiev and bursting with a carnivalesque collection of domes, cupolas and spires.
The city enjoys Unesco World Heritage status, and you’ll find its heart located around the 16th-century Plosha Rynok (Market Square), a picturesque spot with fountains, a photogenic town hall and an abundance of cafés and restaurants. Nearby is the pick of the city’s 100-odd religious buildings, the Dominican cathedral, with its oversize rococo dome.
Patriotic English fans may like to offer a prayer at St George’s cathedral, but the 14th-century Armenian cathedral – a heaving mass of buttresses, arches and fine Caucasian drawings – is more of a show-stopper. Castle Hill provides the best panorama; the most restful spot is the atmospheric, overgrown Lychakivske cemetery .
Drown your sorrows by first taking the excellent tour of the 18th-century Museum of Beer and Brewing, then head for the adjacent Robert Doms Beer House on vul Kleparivska 18, where the brewery’s old underground vaults have been transformed into beer halls.
Mark Rowe
Kharkiv
This city is a bit of an oddity, with a modest clutch of classical domed churches, the fresh feel of a big university and some large shadows of its recent past. It also has the dubious honour of having built the Soviet Union’s first Stalinesque skyscraper.
This industrial city was devastated by the war, and the primary surviving cultural attraction is the Pokrovsky Monastery, home to the exquisite three-domed Pokrovska Church. The city’s heartbeat is the gargantuan 2,500ft-long Ploscha Svobody (Freedom Square). You’ll find that pioneering skyscraper here, along with a rather plaintive statue of Lenin. The pleasant Central Shevchenko Park nearby is named after Ukraine’s national poet, rather than the former Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko.
Kharkiv’s abundant bars will facilitate a pleasant evening out. Pivobar (“beer bar”), at vul Frunze 3, has an unexpected reputation for English real ale. To watch televised tournament matches you may find yourself gravitating to the Irish Pub at vul Myronosytska 46.
MR
Beyond the football
A visit to Ukraine’s rural hinterland will repay those with time to spare, with plenty of hiking in the Ruthenian south and west amid the indigenous Hutsul peoples. Chernivtsi has striking Orthodox churches, while Kolomyia’s main eye-catcher is a museum shaped like a decorated Easter egg, and which is said to house the world’s largest collection of eggs.
Elsewhere, Odessa’s party-town reputation belies the charm of the Potemkin Steps and a Viennese opera house. Down in Crimea, you can take the world’s longest trolleybus journey, for 130-odd miles from Simferopol to Yalta, and enjoy a Mediterranean climate and Second World War palaces stalked by the ghosts of Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt.
Then there’s Chernobyl – no longer the no-go area you might think. Regent Holidays (see below) will run a tour this autumn that includes an overnight hotel stay inside the exclusion zone, a visit to the ghost town of Pripyat, views of the reactors and a chance to meet some extremely hardy residents.
SVT ändrar upplägg till EM. I sommar bjuder tv–kanalen in fansen till fotbollsfest i studion. – Det kommer att bli mer fokus på känslor, spänning och dramatik, säger SVT:s Max Bursell.
Från gårdagens GP:
Ukraina gräver, svetsar och gnor inför den största svenska invasionen i österled sedan stormaktstiden.
En månad återstår till den blågula festen i Kiev.
Den 8 juni invigs EM med match mellan Polen och Grekland i Warszawa. Tre dagar senare ställs Sverige mot EM:s andra värdnation, Ukraina, på nyrenoverade Olympiastadion i Kiev.
Att Sverige spelar alla sina tre gruppspelsmatcher i en och samma stad kommer sannolikt att märkas rejält.
– Det här måste ju vara den största anstormningen sedan Karl XII:s fälttåg. Vi har sett siffror på att det kan komma upp mot 25 000 till 30 000 svenskar, konstaterar Stefan Gullgren, Sveriges ambassadör i Ukraina.
Bygget pågår
Arrangörerna arbetar intensivt i försommarhettan. Området runt stadion är fortfarande en byggarbetsplats, den nya terminalen vid flygplatsen i Boryspil är ännu inte invigd och mångas favoritstråk i Kiev – den pittoreska Andreasbacken – är fullständigt uppochnedvänd, med kullersten och allt.
Hinner allt verkligen bli klart i tid?
– Ja, det undrar nog en del Kiev-bor också, säger Gullgren.
– Mitt intryck är att de började väldigt sent. Men de har en tendens att göra allt i sista minuten. Vi skulle nog ha varit väldigt nervösa om det såg ut så här där hemma, men här jobbar de på ett annat sätt.
Ö-läger i Dnepr
Kievs paradgata Kresjtjatyk blir gågata under hela EM med storbildsskärmar och restauranger i anslutning till stadionområdet, som ligger centralt, mitt i stan. Biljettinnehavare åker gratis kommunalt på matchdagarna. För svensk del kommer två centrum att finnas: ett på Truchaniv-ön i Dnepr där tusentals svenska fans kommer att campa, och ett i stadens södra utkanter där landslaget tränar på Dynamo Kievs anläggning i Kontja-Zaspa och bor på ett lyxhotell i Kozyn, ytterligare ett par mil bort.
Sveriges ambassad förbereder sig på sitt sätt för en anstormning av konsulära ärenden.
– Det är ju alltid någon som blir av med passet, eller blir sjuk, konstaterar Gullgren, som uppmanar alla inresande att på förhand lära sig så mycket som möjligt om Ukraina.
– Läs på! Förbered er! Man ska vara medveten om att det här är en annan miljö än hemma i Sverige.
Wiktor Nummelin, GP
Här nedanför presenteras Uefas regler om vad som får medtagas in på arenorna i sommar.
Storleken på flaggor begränsas till 2x1,5 meter vilket kommer ställa till med en del problem. Även megafoner är förbjudna vilket dock måste ses som positivt!
Professional cameras, video cameras and other similar devices, fireworks, flares, laser pointers, large bags, and large banners cannot be brought into the stadiums that will host the Euro 2012 European Football Championship.
This is stipulated in a provision on banned items and rules of conduct at Euro 2012 stadiums, which was obtained by Interfax-Ukraine.
In addition, weapons or explosives of any kind, including anything that could be adapted for use as a weapon or to cut, thrust, or stab with, or as a projectile, cannot be brought into the stadiums.
The list of prohibited items also includes umbrellas, bottles and other glass, metal or plastic containers, alcoholic beverages, stimulants, drugs or psychotropic substances. Fans also cannot bring in materials containing racist, xenophobic, political or religious propaganda.
Fans may not bring any flagpoles or banner poles of any kind, apart from flexible plastic poles and so-called double poles that do not exceed one meter in length and one centimeter in diameter.
Unless expressly authorized by UEFA, the following items may not be brought into the stadium: banners or flags larger than 2 by 1.5 meters. Smaller flags and banners are permitted provided that they are made from a material which is deemed "non-flammable" and comply with national regulations and standards.
Official supporters' groups with giant overhead flags exceeding the aforementioned dimensions must notify UEFA (or any official appointed by UEFA) one day before the match in question for them to decide whether such giant overhead flags are permitted.
It is not allowed to bring unwieldy objects such as helmets, ladders, stools, folding chairs, boxes, boxes, bags, rucksacks and other objects that are larger than 25 cm by 25 cm by 25 cm and which cannot be stowed under the seat in the stadium.
The ban applies to mechanically or manually operated sound-emitting devices such as megaphones, klaxons or vuvuzelas.
Read more: http://www.kyivpost.com/news/euro2012/general/detail/127178/#ixzz1uBiDXzKY
KIEV. Ukraina, Sveriges öppningsmotståndare i EM, tar ett steg framåt och två steg bakåt. Superstjärnan och nationalikonen Andrej Sjevtjenko, 35, är tillbaka – men landslaget har drabbats av nya skador och ett storbråk mellan flera spelare i Dynamo Kiev och Shaktar Donetsk splittrar EM-värden. – Skadorna är ett problem. Bråken säger jag till spelarna att de ska glömma när de kommer till landslaget, säger Sjevtjenko i en exklusiv intervju med Sportbladet.
En hel del av oss kommer säkert ta tillfället i akt att göra ett studiebesök till Tjernobyl norr om Kiev.
KORCZOWA. Här är skräckgränsen mellan Ukraina och Polen som svenska fans måste passera under EM. "Europamuren" hårdbevakas av tungt beväpnad militär och släpper inte något eller någon mellan fingrarna. Men överste Igor Andrusik Jaroslavovitj ger ett lugnande besked till svenska supportrar inför EM. – Njet problema!, säger han när Sportbladet be- söker gränsövergången.
En snabbkoll har gjorts nu på kvällen när det gäller flyg och hotell. Sökningen gjordes på Booking.com och flygstolen.se. Datumen som gällde var 10-20 juni. Observera att detta var en snabbkoll och självklart går det att hitta billigare alternativ och andra vägar. Den som söker finner, alltid;-) När det gäller boendet ser det helt klart ut som fler och fler alternativ dyker upp. På Booking.com fanns det för några dagar sedan 41 alternativ. Nu ikväll finns det 65 lediga hotell och lägenheter mellan 10-20 juni med priser från ca 7000:- för ett dubbelrum. När det gäller flyg ser priserna ut att vara från 4000:- från Stockholm, Göteborg samt Köpenhamn. Då med tyvärr långa väntetider i Moskva, Wien, Amsterdam m.fl. Men som sagt, flera möjligheter finns med flyg. Laborera lite med datumen och kolla flyg från andra destinationer. MOT KIEV!
Så här långt har den största oron varit huruvida vår bokade lägenhet finns eller inte. Hoppas nu detta är något vi inte behöver tänka på framöver.
The safety of participants and guests of Euro-2012 will be guaranteed, Ukrainian officials are saying. "We are taking all necessary measures to ensure the safety of guests and participants of the Euro", the Іnterfax-Ukraine news agency reports, quoting Oleksandr Birsan, the head of the Inter-agency Coordination Headquarters for Safety and Security during Euro-2012 under the President of Ukraine.
According to him, planned anti-terrorism training will take place in Kyiv on Friday evening, in which representatives of various law-enforcement agencies of Ukraine will take part.
Euro-2012 group matches will be held in June in four cities of Ukraine - Kyiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv and Lviv. Dnipropetrovsk was one of the candidate cities to host matches of the group stage. There were four explosions in public places in Dnipropetrovsk on Friday. According to the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry the blasts injured 27 people.
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