A whole gaggle of interesting matches to watch this weekend. We've chosen a handful each on Saturday and Sunday, including the quarterfinals of the African Cup of Nations, a couple each from the big leagues (Premier League, including Chelsea-ManUtd; Serie A, highlighted by AC Milan-Napoli; La Liga the one we're most interested in is Atletico Madrid-Valencia), plus a few wild cards (e.

A gleaming new National Stadium has just been erected in Warsaw, Poland. It stands in a historic spot, on the former grounds of Stadion Dziesięciolecia ("Tenth Anniversary Stadium", named for ten years of Poland's new political state), built from the rubble left by the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and pictured above prior to its demolition.

A year before the Euros is a good time to analyze the current state of the Polish national team. I've already written a lot about tactics in the last post, so now I'd like to concentrate on the squad roster. Some time ago Smuda said that by this time he would have a group of thirty candidates to play in the tournament.