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Polish national team only drew 1-1 with Northern Ireland (World Cup 2010 preliminary competition) at the Śląski Stadium in Chorzów yesterday. The first goal was scored in the 38th minute by the away team. Its author was Kyle Lafferty. Poles managed to equalise ten minutes before the end of the game thanks to Aaron Hughes's own goal. Although Poland only drew its match, it still has chances to win the promotion to the World Cup 2010 in South Africa.

Polish national team begins its preparatory camp connected with matches against Northern Ireland and Slovenia (World Cup 2010 preliminary competition) today. At first, to Mühlheim should have been called up only one Legia's player, Marcin Komorowski and Roger Guerreiro who was sold to AEK Athens a few days ago. At the last moment Leo Beenhakker also called up Jakub Rzeźniczak who is going to replace injured Marcin Wasilewski. There's going to be only one training today – at 6 p.m.

Legia's goalkeeper, Jan Mucha, has been called up to the Slovakian national team, again. "Muszkin" is one of 22 players who have been called up by coach Vladimir Weiss for September games against Czech Republic and Northern Ireland (World Cup 2010 preliminary competition). For the place in the squad he'll have to compete with Lubos Kamenar from FC Nantes. Thanks to Mucha's good disposition, he has been regularly appearing in the Slovakian national team.