Several days before starting championship, UEFA decided to hold the final training of media-officers in Warsaw. There are more than 30 media officers in UEFA and 16 of us are chosen for championship. In fact all of us are very experienced, have worked for several championships and all of them used to work for Champions League.
On the second day of the training we were taken to the national stadium which is located in Warsaw, we were shown there almost everything. The stadium is being cleaned… in two days there is to be held opening ceremony and everyone is determined to do their best. It is really a great stadium. I was saying proudly to my colleagues at the seminar that “Dinamo” stadium is for 5-6 thousand spectators!!! I also would like to have such preparation haste for EURO-2020 at “Dinamo” stadium… I have already created how to transform media sector for “Dinamo” and now I am adding Warsaw news – I take a lot of photos for authority of “Dinamo”, Sandro Shakho and Nika Jgarkava, because when I come in Georgia as soon as I will start modernizing process of “Dinamo” media-centre.... either in 2020 or in 2024 we might host championship.
In a word, after the seminar we were given the schedule:
June 8, Wroclaw: Russia – Czech Republic
June 10 Gdansk: Spain – Italy
June 12  Warsaw: Poland – Russia
June 14  Gdansk: Spain – Ireland
June 16 Warsaw: Greece – Russia
June 18 Gdansk: Croatia – Spain
Accreditation was ready for us in two minutes, it was really an exciting procedure. With is I can go to all the nine zones…
As you see I attend all the three matches of Russia and plus I have to control their media. Ilia Kazakov press-speaker of Russian national team appeared to be a good guy, he made friend with us at once and we have permanent telephone contact, I also send him all the material provided by UEFA at once. Today Russians have to have official training at Wroclaw stadium and I will meet them personally..
Warsaw meeting was also interesting for us (there are 7 Georgian journalists at championship) because there are yellow and red cards for my colleagues.  If you have accreditation and you cannot attend the match you have to inform UEFA in advance in any case – if you do not you will shown yellow card, if you are shown a red card it means that you have to say good-bye to championship!
I left for Wroclaw in the morning yesterday – for preparing for the Russian and Czech matches. As usual I signed in “Worldsport.ge” and got information, that due to finance problems opening ceremony is in danger. I do not think that it is possible, but in any case it is unpleasant…
 

UEFA media-officer Mamuka Kvaratskhelia specially for worldsport.ge from Poland