Donald Tusk’s intervention regarding national team matches at the PGE National Stadium. There’s a coup!

The news regarding the signing of the contract with the Silesian Stadium and the clash between the Polish Football Association and PGE Narodowy was reported by the Meczyki.pl portal on Monday (January 13). More precisely, journalist Tomasz Włodarczyk. And it was the same man who announced on Tuesday that there had been a coup regarding the location of the national team’s host games.

And Prime Minister Donald Tusk himself was to be involved in the whole thing.

– Big politics stands behind certain movements. It was easy to see that taking the Polish team out of PGE Narodowy was a failure of the stadium, but also a failure of Warsaw. This could also be a temporary defeat for Rafał Trzaskowski, who is running in the presidential elections. And he is still, at least, the favorite among them (…) According to my information, a key meeting took place in the evening, namely the Minister of Sport and Tourism, Sławomir Nitras, met with Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Even yesterday, we half-jokingly, half-seriously said on the channel that only such a decision “from above” could change anything. And everything indicates that it has actually sunk in. The team is to stay at the National Stadium, the home team for these most important matches is to be PGE Narodowy – said Włodarczyk during a live program for Meczyki.

Therefore, it looks like the Polish team will still play its most important matches in Warsaw. As for other cases, the agreement with the Silesian Stadium will perhaps allow for some moves in the case of matches beyond those qualifying for the 2026 World Cup.

The Polish national team remains at the PGE National Stadium in Warsaw

There has been a long-standing discussion, especially among fans of the Polish national team, as to where the team – currently led by coach Michał Probierz – should play its home matches. In the past, the Polish Football Association decided on solutions in which Poland played, for example, UEFA Nations League matches outside the capital. This was the case with the team trained by Czesław Michniewicz. The Poles played against Wales (2:1) at the stadium in Wrocław.

There was also an opportunity to see the team during Jerzy Brzęczek’s term at the aforementioned Śląskie Voivodeship – again on the occasion of the UEFA Nations League. Returning to Michniewicz, it was in Chorzów that the Poles played a play-off match against Sweden (2-0), which decided about advancing to the World Cup in Qatar (2022).