what in the name of Kazimierz Górski is going on in the PZPN?! Kurator w PZPN! http://www.sport.pl/pilka/1,65029,5747793,Trybunal_Arbitrazowy_przy_PKOL_ustanowil_kuratora.html
If I had a guarantee that this fixes PZPN forever I would gladly sacrifice a year without Europe for Polish teams and the World Cup in SA.
Fifa and Uefa have refused to recognise the administrator appointed by the Polish government to run the country's Football Association. Poland's sports ministry suspended the board of their FA (PZPN) for failing to address corruption issues. But Fifa and Uefa have a policy of rejecting government interference. Poland are scheduled to co-host the European Championship in 2012 with Ukraine. "Fifa and Uefa will now start joint consultation to decide the measures to be taken," a statement said. The statement said further action would be considered when the Fifa executive committee meets in Zurich on 23-24 October, with Uefa's emergency panel due to meet around the same time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/7644595.stm this pissing contest has got to stop this is not the first time that we're on the verge of suspension if it takes being thrown out of the WC to fix this then lets get it over with now and move on!
Does this bs have to occur every time we start a qualification campaign. Would be nice if they cleaned house once and for all, preferably during non competition time. Unfortunately it is very likely this will end the same way it always has, lot of talking, posturing and what have you, and then in the end folding and status quo. On a side note if we do skip the matches with Czechs and Slovaks might as well field a whole new NT with a look to the future from then on cause except for the standard "mathematically we are still in line", we will be very much out of it.
Well lot of noise, lot of posturing, and in the end it looks like we are essentially back to square one, and so we don't fix the future so we can play in the present.
crap i didn't care if we got thrown out of the WC (provided some real changes were made in the PZPN) but giving up the EC2012 would have been hard to take oh,well... lets do this again after the WC and before the EU2012 when its too late to change the hosts
Looking forward to revisiting this in Spring of 2012 Though I'm sure this "show" will be back by popular demand a couple more times before 2012.
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/8661606/FIFA,-UEFA-make-peace-with-Euro-host-Poland http://www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind=64/newsid=760449.html So the elections are set for Oct 30th, and will be supervised by FIFA, and UEFA to make sure there is no fraud. Oh and they will monitor PZPN to make sure there is no corruption. Cant really comment on this without LOL.
This wheeling and dealing was intended to place Zbigniew Boniek on the chair of the president of Polish association. Luckily, this attempt failed. I prefer old guys from PZPN to this red fox
and the fun continues http://www.sport.pl/pilka/1,65046,5851799,Izba_Skarbowa_zablokowala_konta_PZPN.html
Lato is voted the new president of PZPN http://www.sport.pl/pilka/1,65029,5867696,Grzegorz_Lato_nowym_prezesem_PZPN.html
I suspect little will change... but we'll see how thing go from now on. Hopefully they do in fact give Leo more time, because despite some hiccups he is putting together a solid team.
http://www.sport.pl/pilka/1,95644,6445652,PZPN_przejada_30_proc__wlasnego_budzetu.html PZPN spend about 30% of its budget on administrative costs!! in 2008 the budget was 74 million zł., about 22 million went for admin costs, that's 30% how much did the spend on training new coaches? 200,000 zł!! and how much did they spend on junior tournaments? 500,000 zł!! if it wasn't sad, it'd be funny
Its good to know PZPN is dedicated to producing a top notch bureaucracy. In the even of a bureaucrat WC we should have a quite competitive squad of well trained incompetents. Now if we could only start a corrupt pencil pusher association that would spend most of its budget on youth soccer teams, and training of coaches, instead of producing administrators, we'd be set.
EURO 2012 Host Cities Gdansk Poznan Warsaw Wroclaw http://www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind=64/newsid=829457.html
http://www.sport.pl/pilka/1,95644,7149061,Wprowadzic_kuratora_do_PZPN__Wymarzony_czas.html why not? Poland and Polish clubs are done for the year in international play...
I agree as well. I would also like to add that when I see or hear the word działacz I suddenly feel ill. They have to close this commie remnant and start over.