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Thu 04 Apr 2007Shock as Uefa look to eastSOCCER:The 2012 European Championship will be co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine after Uefa's executive committee delivered a major surprise yesterday, awarding the tournament to the unfancied joint bid with a two-thirds majority which signals a shift to the east in European football's centre of gravity.Uefa's shock decision to look east is a huge snub to Italy, whose bid was expected to win despite the country's tawdry recent history of match-fixing scandals and hooliganism.