football in eastern europe

[Freddo]

hi there,
Next week I'm leavin to go interailin with some friends and im lookin to find some footie matches to go to while we're out there. We're goin to places like krakow and wroclaw in poland, as well as zagreb (croatia) and ljubljana in slovenia. i was just wondering if anyone had any experience trying to go to matches in other countries where you don't speak the language and what the best way of going about it was? any useful websites or ideas would be welcome.
cheers
freddo

 

[Dandyman]

hi there,
Next week I'm leavin to go interailin with some friends and im lookin to find some footie matches to go to while we're out there. We're goin to places like krakow and wroclaw in poland, as well as zagreb (croatia) and ljubljana in slovenia. i was just wondering if anyone had any experience trying to go to matches in other countries where you don't speak the language and what the best way of going about it was? any useful websites or ideas would be welcome.
cheers
freddo

Not sure how this works for your dates but...


Official website of Wis³a Kraków SA

 

[Tooting Gull]

I'd be tempted to leave the football to Croatia and Poland - and while in Llubljana just spend the time in all the bars down by the riverside. Marvellous scenes.

 

[Citrus]

hi there,
Next week I'm leavin to go interailin with some friends and im lookin to find some footie matches to go to while we're out there. We're goin to places like krakow and wroclaw in poland, as well as zagreb (croatia) and ljubljana in slovenia. i was just wondering if anyone had any experience trying to go to matches in other countries where you don't speak the language and what the best way of going about it was? any useful websites or ideas would be welcome.
cheers
freddo

Saw Hajduk Split play a Champions League qualifier a few years ago. Can get tickets from vendors outside the stadium. Absolutely mental experience, you have to check it out (unless you're afraid of fireworks).

 

[Freddo]

Not sure how this works for your dates but...


Official website of Wis³a Kraków SA

thanks, i couldnt for the life of me find a site in english!

Saw Hajduk Split play a Champions League qualifier a few years ago. Can get tickets from vendors outside the stadium. Absolutely mental experience, you have to check it out (unless you're afraid of fireworks).[/QUOTE]

Definitely checkin them out!

 

[Freddo]

oh and when a polish site for example lists fixtures, is it like in england where the home team is listed first? anyone know?

 

[house your seagull]

i was in krakow to se wisla vs. cracovia - they played behind closed doors though. shitbox polish skinheads.

 

[Dandyman]

oh and when a polish site for example lists fixtures, is it like in england where the home team is listed first? anyone know?

I think it is usually the same. I've seen both of the Warsaw teams play and the atmosphere was good at both. Wisla Krakow are reigning Polish champs, so you should see a decent standard of football,

 

[Freddo]

i was in krakow to se wisla vs. cracovia - they played behind closed doors though. shitbox polish skinheads.

that would have been insane, whose ground was it at? and do you remember who was listed first in the fixture?

 

[Freddo]

is it hard to get around these places in poland? anyone speak english?

 

[blue and white army]

i'm going to russia next year

 

[Dandyman]

is it hard to get around these places in poland? anyone speak english?

Poland is fairly easy to get around using the railways (although not especially quick). Younger people tend to speak some english, although you may be better off copying phrases from a book if you need to book anything.

Polish is quite a struggle for most english speakers but you will generally get a good reception if you master:

Hello - Dzien Dobry (gin -dobray)

Thank you - Dziekuje (jen-koo-ay)

Please - Prosze (prosh-eh)

Beer - Piwo (Pee-vo)

English - Angol

German - Niemcy (or Schwab if you want to be less polite).

Polish beer is good (try the stouts and porters if on offer as well as the lager), Polish women are wonderful filth and the food is quite nice too.

 

[captainmorganrum]

Polish 1 Liga fixtures
I liga 2008/2009

 

[Dandyman]

and Premiership (Extraclass) including Cracovia and Wisla

Ekstraklasa 2008/2009

 

[Freddo]

Poland is fairly easy to get around using the railways (although not especially quick). Younger people tend to speak some english, although you may be better off copying phrases from a book if you need to book anything.

Polish is quite a struggle for most english speakers but you will generally get a good reception if you master:

Hello - Dzien Dobry (gin -dobray)

Thank you - Dziekuje (jen-koo-ay)

Please - Prosze (prosh-eh)

Beer - Piwo (Pee-vo)

English - Angol

German - Niemcy (or Schwab if you want to be less polite).

Polish beer is good (try the stouts and porters if on offer as well as the lager), Polish women are wonderful filth and the food is quite nice too.

cheers for the info, on another note, apart from footie, does anyone know anyother sports that countries like poland and the czech republic are mad about and would be quite good to go and see?

 

[Jamon Jamon]

Haven't been to Poland, but have been to Sparta Prague and Ferencvaros, in both cases no-one around spoke English but a bit of the old sign language and following yer nose, gettin tickets at the ground was a piece of piss

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[The Lemming Stomper]

Haven't been to Poland, but have been to Sparta Prague and Ferencvaros, in both cases no-one around spoke English but a bit of the old sign language and following yer nose, gettin tickets at the ground was a piece of piss

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During the war..............