Former Poland president Lech Walesa says the country s co-hosting of Euro 2012 will be of a massive benefit off the field as well as on it.
With parts of the country still suffering from an economic downturn following the collapse of communism, Walesa reiterated exclusively to Goal.com that the money ploughed into the Polish economy fits in with the free state which he helped to create.
Speaking of his feelings about the European Championship being staged in his home country, the co-founder of the Solidarity Trade Union said: I was a part of the organisational processes I always thought that we need to unite different nations.
Furthermore, Euro 2012 has sparked off many investments in this country. New things have been built, others were tidied up. It is this a…