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Henry Wizgier
Wojciechowski’s złote paying off
By Henry Wizgier (Polish SOCA! UK)    Monday, 16 August 2010 17:00    PDF Print E-mail

In football money can buy success, there have been many examples down the years, probably the most famous of all is the story of Juventus FC.

The Italian club had won just one scudetto, in 1905, when Fiat owner Edoardo Agnelli took them over in 1923. Within 12 years they had added six more titles and today they are still the most successful side in Serie A history with 27 championship wins.

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Polish football in a Catch 22 situation
By Henry Wizgier (Polish SOCA! UK)    Wednesday, 11 August 2010 22:30    PDF Print E-mail

Although the European club competitions are still at the qualifying stage, all but one of the Polish representatives have already been eliminated. And it is only because of UEFA’s second-chance opportunity that champions Lech Poznan will be given another bite of the cherry, in the lesser of the two competitions, the Europa League.

And when you look at their performances so far, not many can hold out much hope of the Kolejorz surviving the forthcoming play-off against Dniepropetrovsk and reaching the coveted group stage. It can be safely assumed that once again Polish club interests in Europe will be extinguished long before the end of the year.

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Poland – a poor 58 FIFA ranking
By Henry Wizgier (Polish SOCA! UK)    Thursday, 27 May 2010 21:59    PDF Print E-mail

If FIFA decided to create a football league for nations made up of 18-team divisions, Poland would find itself in Division 4. The world football governing body’s latest rankings place Poland at 58, just below Hungary, Northern Ireland and Tunisia.

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PZPN's roundtable of desperate nature
By Henry Wizgier (Polish SOCA! UK)    Sunday, 06 December 2009 15:36    PDF Print E-mail

“It will get better. It has to!” With these words Polish Football Association (PZPN) President Grzegorz Lato summed up last Saturday’s ‘Round Table Meeting’ to discuss the present parlous state of Polish football.

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