Poland's ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) wants state support for mass
sports and a debate on repairing Poland's ailing football, PiS parliamentary
leader Przemyslaw Gosiewski told the media on Saturday.
Poland will not achieve success in professional sports without state funding
for mass sports, Gosiewski said. He added that PiS was for developing a child
and youth sports programme.
PiS executive official Michal Kaminski suggested a "round tabledebate" on
Polish football in the wake of the Polish team's poor results in the World Cup
opening round. Kaminski also pointed to "pathologies" in the Polish Football
Association (PZPN).
The Warsaw city paper Metro said that Poland's football coach Pawel Janas
will probably be replaced by Jan Urban, a former Polish soccer national
currently in charge of a under-21 team in one of the Spain's clubs.
