KYIV - Olympic Stadium (70,050)

[undertaker89]

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[undertaker89]

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[adeaide]

[Flake13]

Originally Posted by PaulFCB

Help me understand, why did Ukraine choose to play in Donetsk the following 2 games?
I understand they didn't know about which of the teams it was going to be in the first one in Kiev, but why the hell do they go to play in Donetsk 2 games instead of playing all 3 in Kiev and keep the other games down in Donetsk or do as Poland did to play only the 3rd outside the capital

Donetsk hasn't enough hotel numbers and by such a way they decided to resolved the problem with foreign fans - only one guest team instead of two. The other reason is political: people with Donetsk origin seized the power in Ukraine and our Football Federation decided to please them in such a way. But IMHO its a very bad idea to play in Donetsk - our national team has never win there before

Originally Posted by PaulFCB

Also, putting the biggest 2 stadiums in the same group and the smallest in another group, why the hell didn't they link Kiev to Lvov and Donetsk to Harkov?
Moving teams around too much, a German fan would be exhausted to go from Lvov to Harkov and back if it doesn't do it by plane.

I was surprised too. The only reason for such decision is to connect Kiev and Donetsk for national team to play in those two cities by the reasons I described before.

[pawel19-87]

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[Igor L.]

Originally Posted by undertaker89

How many Swedish fans are in Kyiv?

~35-40K

[Alex_Riccio]

I support the Ukraine. And watched the match in the Swedish fan sector in the Ukrainian national team shirt! Swedes are great people and fans! I was interested in many Swedes about the camp, and all said that the camp is very good!

[cornelinho]

Originally Posted by undertaker89

How many Swedish fans are in Kyiv?

from what i heard on tv ... some 9000 sweedens

[Igor L.]

Originally Posted by cornelinho

from what i heard on tv ... some 9000 sweedens

Much more...

Originally Posted by Igor L.

~35-40k

[Berserker]

Originally Posted by alexandru.mircea

You're right!

Complete comparison between full capacity and UEFA capacity:

Warsaw: 58,145 / 50,000
Gdansk: 43,615 / 40,000
Wroclaw: 42,771 / 40,000
Poznan: 41,609 / 40,000

Kyiv: 70,050 / 60,000
Donetsk: 52,518 / 50,000
Kharkiv: 38,633 / 35,000
Lviv: 34,915 / 30,000

The two largest stadiums are losing the most.

There is a bug on UEFA website. Wroclaw stadium is second biggest euro 2012 arena in Poland and it's capacity is 44,308.

[TEBC]

Does Russian and Ukraine have a better relation or things like what happened in Poland match could happen also against Ukraine?

[Harisson]

Originally Posted by TEBC

Does Russian and Ukraine have a better relation or things like what happened in Poland match could happen also against Ukraine?

Lviv - yes
Kyiv - perhaps
Kharkiv - no
Donetsk - no

[BOSDAN]

Originally Posted by cornelinho

from what i heard on tv ... some 9000 sweedens

9,000 were probably the amount that made it into the stadium. There were a ton of Sweden flags hanging and they had some loud cheers.



TV also said there were only 5,000 Italians and that number seemed low, so I took it as only 5,000 Italian fans made it inside for the match against Spain.

[michał_]

Originally Posted by Berserker

There is a bug on UEFA website. Wroclaw stadium is second biggest euro 2012 arena in Poland and it's capacity is 44,308.

No it's not. Not for Euro 2012. Though it certainly isn't 40,000 as well.

[Igor L.]

Originally Posted by TEBC

Does Russian and Ukraine have a better relation or things like what happened in Poland match could happen also against Ukraine?

Originally Posted by Harisson

Lviv - yes
Kyiv - perhaps

Kyiv - Yes, of course. Most of the residents of Kyiv does not like Russians.

[Cuprum]

Originally Posted by Igor L.

Kyiv - Yes, of course. Most of the residents of Kyiv does not like Russian.

It`s not true. Most of kiever speaks russian, you know about that. Say only about yourself. You do not like russians and punkt

[Igor L.]

Originally Posted by Cuprum

It`s not true. Most of kiever speaks russian, you know about that. Say only about yourself. You do not like russians and punkt

...but...

The language structure of Kyiv city, according to the All-Ukrainian Population Census ‘2001 data, is characterized by the following data: the part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 92.3% of the population of the Kyiv city, according population census ‘1989 data their percentage was 88.4% .The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 7.2% of the population.
http://2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/regions/reg_mkyiv/

Originally Posted by Igor L.

Most of the residents of Kyiv does not like Russians.

It's 100% true.

[VelesHomais]

In any case, I don't think there would be any riots in Ukraine, no matter who plays.

[Cuprum]

The language structure of Kyiv city, according to the All-Ukrainian Population Census ‘2001 data, is characterized by the following data: the part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 92.3% of the population of the Kyiv city, according population census ‘1989 data their percentage was 88.4% .The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 7.2% of the population.
http://2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/regions/reg_mkyiv/

And what? My mother language is ukrainian, but i'm speaking russian. Not only I answered so in 2001. Come out and listen to the street. So do not mislead anyone

Originally Posted by VelesHomais

In any case, I don't think there would be any riots in Ukraine, no matter who plays.

Total agree with you

[Igor L.]

Originally Posted by Cuprum

And what? My mother language is ukrainian, but i'm speaking russian.

In Kyiv only marginalized people to speak in Russian. Educated people communicate in Ukrainian.

If the Russians the will to provoke... they will be severely punished.