Poland
How'd they get here: Automatically qualified as co-hosts
Last Appearance: Euro 2008
Best Appearance: Euro 2008 (Group Stage)
Schedule:
June 8 vs Greece
June
12 vs Russia
June
16 vs Czech Republic
The Story:
The other co-host of this year's competition finds itself at #14 in this Euro 2012 Countdown. The Poles come into the tournament with an unproven squad hoping to give the home faithful something to cheer about. The benefit of automatically qualifying for the tournament as a co-host might prove to be detrimental to Poland's chances as this team has not played a meaningful game as a country for quite some time (they completely missed out on the qualifying process and have only played friendlies in preparation for the tournament). However the fact that they lucked out in the draw ending up in Group A puts them in a much better position than fellow co-host Ukraine to actually get out of the Group Stage.
