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Some 63,500 tickets will be sold for Euro 2012 European Football Championship matches held at the National Olympiysky Sports Complex in Kyiv, Ukrainian Vice Premier and Infrastructure Minister Borys Kolesnikov has said.

The vice premier at a press conference in Kyiv on June 7 said that the National Olympiysky Sports Complex was designed to have 70,000 seats, but 6,500 seats in the first, second and third rows will have restricted views because of the installed advertising boards.

"This problem failed to be technically solved," Kolesnikov said.

He noted that the stadium was built in 1941. According to the vice premier, during preparations for hosting the Euro 2012 the stadium should have been "demolished and a new one should have been built."

"The decision that was taken [on the sports complex’s reconstruction] was influenced by time factors," Kolesnikov explained.