City beat Aris Salonika 3-0 to set up a meeting with the 13-time Ukrainian champions, who are also three-time European Cup semi-finalists.

South Africa is likely to do better than Poland and Ukraine, which will jointly host football’s European Championship in 2012; Ukraine’s preparations have been singled out as shoddy.

I am a defender of the German national team, a team of young and promising footballers, with whom I want to win the 2012 European Championships in Poland and Ukraine.