Polish parliamentarians have organized a football tournament in Warsaw, the proceeds of which will go for a clean-up operation in the town of Bogatynia, south-western Poland which suffered extensive damage in the flooding earlier this month.

Four teams are taking part in the tournament, each representing one of the four parliamentary parties.

The winning team out of Civic Platform, Law and Justice, Democratic Alliance and Polish Peasant’s Party will face the Gorski Eagles Eleven, which brings together several members of Poland’s national team which scored spectacular international successes in the 1970s under the legendary coach Kazimierz Gorski.

Among those to appear at Warsaw’s Polonia Stadium are deputy speaker of Parliament Jerzy Wenderlich of the Democratic Left Alliance, his colleague Ryszard Kalisz, and MEPs Ryszard Czarnecki and Marek Siwiec. Andrzej Szarmach and Wladyslaw Zmuda play for the Gorski Eagles.

The latter played 91 times in the national team and took part in four World Cup tournaments. The team of the ruling Civic Platform also has a former national cap in its ranks: Roman Kosecki played 69 times for Poland before moving into parliamentary politics. (mk)

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