Poland's top auditing office says delays in preparing to co-host the 2012 European Championship could threaten the running of the event.
The Supreme Audit Office says the most serious delays are in building roads that are needed to move fans among four of the Polish cities hosting games. It also noted delays in building the National Stadium in Warsaw and in modernising train stations.
The report was published yesterday, almost exactly a year before the event, being co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine, opens on June 8, 2012.
The report says: "the scale of the delays, abandoned projects and poorly executed investments is so large that it could endanger the proper course of the event".
Elsewhere, Lionel Messi and his Argentina teammates will travel to India later this year to take on Venezuela in a friendly designed to boost football on the subcontinent.
The Fifa-sanctioned game is scheduled for September 2 in the eastern city of Kolkata. The Argentine team will then travel to Bangladesh, where they will take on Nigeria.
The Argentina squad will arrive in Kolkata on August 30 and will take part in a number of charity events. It was unclear if Fifa World Player of the Year Messi, whose club side Barcelona begin their Primera Liga title defence the day before, would fly out with his Argentina teammates or join the tour later.
Though football is yet to take off in cricket-mad India, the size of its population and the associated commercial potential has long seen it regarded as one of the great untapped markets for the sport.
* Agencies
