The news capable of competing with the inauguration of Donald Trump was reportedly tragic news in Poland about the decision of the football squad from the National Stadium. It's just that for precisely the other reason than the 1 worth pointing at.
Poland is an evenement on a European scale erstwhile it comes to concentrating national squad matches in the capital city. Unlike akin examples of this type, however, there is neither economical nor social justification. The political reality is besides reflected in football, which is why the confusion around the National Stadium is an expression of the model adopted after 1989, in which Poland "is happening" in Warsaw, and the remainder of the country exists from the unwillingness, as if by a large conviction in Yalta.
If something has worked in Polish football since the mentioned moment, then of course it does not play (because we are inactive below the potential), but definitely stadium infrastructure. We have nice, modern and large stadiums in: Gdańsk, Wrocław, Krakow, Poznań, a bit smaller but equally good and modern in Szczecin, Łódź, Białystok, it is about to be opened in Opole, but the representation of Poland for any reason MUST play on one. And of course in Warsaw. So we geographically exclude over 90% of the nation, which is said to be emanation. Of course, the full capitalist mechanism, i.e. companies, profits, managements and ripping off people's 50 PLN-style money for a part of something mimicking sausage consisting of waste and water, on a tray of toilet paper with glut to pretend to be mustard. But not just that. What is the curse of the 3rd Republic is besides behind it. The improvement of respective large-city agglomerations at the expense of the region Poland. Investments are only Warsaw, Gdańsk, Poznań and Krakow, and Wałbrzych and Tarnobrzegi look like cities after atomic destruction.
The representation resisted it a long time. Even in the 1990s, the squad traveled through various stadiums in smaller towns, although given their quality at the time, we wouldn't want to go back to that. But besides later, i.e. to build the National Stadium, we were able to exploit Poland as long both and wide. Even if Robert Lewandowski scored in the eliminations with San Marino at the stadium in Kielce. After Euro 2012, however, it was only worse. And after all, the number of these cool fresh stadiums gives us many organizational variants. In Warsaw and Chorzów we should only play matches-hita. With England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal or the Netherlands. The infrastructure-geographic key could look like, for example, that in Szczecin we play with Scandinavian countries, in Białystok with Baltic countries, in Wroclaw and Krakow with countries of erstwhile Austro-Hungarian countries. For example, in Poznań we play Bulgaria (because the stadium at Bulgarian Street), and with Gibraltar-type Liliputs we can play at 1 of the smaller stadiums, spread across Poland. It's a small grotesque, like us Andora, we're taking on 40,000 people.
However, there was no specified reflection in the debate. The media effort was focused on restoring representation to the National Stadium. So we will proceed to usage a model that can only be compared to Romanian, although there are only National Arenas in Bucharest at the right level. We are closer in these respects to Spain or Germany, but we will be stubbornly playing on 1 facility. Is the National Stadium any kind of Wembley legend (or even the English don't just play there)? Nope. He's stuck in our consciousness differently than the streak of victory, or even games without defeat. As a ‘national base’ erstwhile the roof could not be closed during the rain (sic!) or as a ‘national hospital’ during a known pandemic, and football could get there after the ears of average Ukraine and Scotland. It's not gonna work anymore.
Tomasz Jankowski
Think Poland, No. 5-6 (2-9.02.2025)
