Michel Platini, president of the Union of European Football Associations, is welcomed to Lviv with bread and salt on April 7.
He arrived on a tour of Lviv, Kyiv, Donetsk and Kharkiv, the host cities for the Euro 2012 soccer tournament. Platini said he was seeking guarantees from the new government that the country would be ready for Euro 2012. Constant setbacks have delayed Ukraine’s preparations of stadia and infrastructure projects ahead of the world’s second largest soccer tournament. Despite concerns, UEFA last year confirmed all four cities as hosts. “UEFA trusts the promises of the Ukrainian authorities – at a state and city level,” Platini said on April 7.
