With 500 days to go before the event sees the first ball kicked, Belgian organiser Alain Courtois said: ?Euro 2000 is on the right track.?
The three-week championship, the first major sporting event to be co-hosted by two countries - Belgium and the Netherlands - is due to open on June 10 next year.
Courtois, a former Belgian soccer union secretary-general, promised a fair and transparent ticketing policy and said tight security would prevent crowd trouble.
"But one of my biggest nightmares is that our two countries don't do well in the tournament," he said.
"Take the 1982 World Cup in Spain. The home team was quickly eliminated and local interest in the event just disappeared."
Euro 2000 plans 31 matches in eight cities - four venues in each country - with 1.2 million tickets on sale.
"We know how to stage 31 games. But we also have to deal with hotels, transport, accreditation, cameras, broadcasting, commercial partners, hospitality, security, the media," he said, adding that co-hosting brought transport and visa problems for teams travelling through two countries.
"FIFA President Sepp Blatter said it was not a good decision to co-host. But because Mr Blatter said it, we are obliged to show that it's possible," Courtois said.
Reuters
