Poznan football club Lech makes it to the UEFA Cup in Azerbaijan, which the team deems a mixed blessing, writes FAKT.
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Sometimes it’s risky to achieve too much in sports. As the FAKT daily informs, the last season was surprisingly good for Lech, the best football club from Poznan, which has qualified to the games of UEFA Cup, one of two main European soccer cups. Its first rival happens to be MKT Araz Imishli from Azerbaijan. The brave Lech players are ready to go to Baku but they still remain somewhat careful. Lech is to bring its own food and water to the Azeri capital. ‘We had planned to take our own chef, too, but our hotel in Baku found it offensive and forced us to give it up,’ say representatives of the Polish club.
Who’s the best Polish football player? Probably Lukas Podolski, a young star of Bayern Munich. The problem is that he represents Germany, the country where he lives, not Poland, where he was born, explains the SUPER EXPRESS daily. However, during his short vacation in Poland Lukas received a T-shirt of Gornik Zabrze, once the best Polish club. Does it mean that we can expect to see Podolski playing for Gornik? ‘Perhaps in the future, just before retirement,’ says Lukas. ‘Right now I am too busy in Bayern. Plus, I’m too expensive. After my good performance in the European Championships last month, my current price is approximately 15m euro, the amount Gornik doesn’t have,’ says Podolski with his well-known modesty.
Polish students are not in a good shape and the situation is getting worse every year, alarms DZIENNIK. The reasons are obvious and, so to say, traditional: young Poles don’t exercise and eat junk food. Sport champions, and Poland still has a few of them, point out that all the evil starts in schools where PE specialists are treated like second-class teachers, writes the newspaper.
Years ago in Hollywood, the experts decided that if you wanted to produce a successful movie, it should be addressed to a 14-year-old kid. And that’s what is happening in Poland today, writes RZECZPOSPOLITA. The people have apparently rejected artistic films, attending almost exclusively popular movies. Everyone wants to see the new adventures of Indiana Jones. What about Woody Allen or the new film about the Rolling Stones by Scorsese? Don’t even ask, says the newspaper with sadness.
Opole, or Oppeln, as it has both Polish and German inhabitants, is dying, claims its Catholic Archbishop Alfons Nossol. As GAZETA WYBORCZA informs, the center of this town in south-western Poland is full of banks and doesn’t offer much apart from that. Opole is a city of one hundred banks and one bookstore, say critics. ‘You are responsible for this place,’ says Archbishop to the authorities of Opole. ‘In the evening banks are closed and the downtown is then empty. The center should be a place where people meet each other. A place of dialogue! Those responsible for the development of the town, have apparently forgotten about its spirit,’ he says.