In the commune, they dreamed of the “league vestibule”, the trainers were paid with money for education
Photo: Marcin Gadomski / PAP
How is it possible that in Stężyca – a village of 2,200 inhabitants – a second league football team played that teams from cities such as Olsztyn, Kołobrzeg or Lublin came here? Keeping the club at this level is millions of costs, and the local Radunia did not have a rich sponsor. So who paid footballers and coaches? According to the audit commissioned by the new commune head, the taxpayer.
Questions about financing the Radunia Stężyca football club were asked at sessions of the commune council, at meetings with residents of and journalists. The then head of the village Tomasz Brzoskowski consistently claimed that the municipality would put on the club as much as it was recorded in the official subsidy (i.e. about PLN 2 million a year). And not a penny more. He also assured this in an interview with us in the autumn of 2022.
The problem, however, is that for two million zlotys it is impossible to maintain a second league football club. After the local elections, it turned out that it was different than the head of the village head Brzoskowski. And as it was exactly with this financing, the prosecutor's office is already investigating.
The third, in turn, about the possibility of committing a crime by the head of the village head Tomasz Brzoskowski was sent to the prosecutor's office almost two weeks ago, March 7.
Commune Office in StężycaTomasz Słomczyński
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In Stężyca, as part of the Municipal School – the Education and Education Team – there is a sports championship school. In the commune, they operate as associations, sports clubs: volleyball GKS Wieżyca 2011 and football Radunia Stężyca. The football team consisting of seniors (this is what professional players who play in Polish leagues) played last season in the second league, fought for promotion to the first.
In the village there is a stadium with a grandstand for a thousand places. The previous head of the village wanted to expand it so that he could accommodate two thousand fans. The idea was to meet the requirements of PZPN to the first league teams. Tomasz Brzoskowski hoped that his favorites would win a promotion to the first league, which is called the “atrium of the league” (the highest level of football games in Poland). During the election campaign, however, he officially admitted that he was giving up this idea.
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