Football around the world: Poland
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Your support makes all the difference.POLAND'S FOOTBALL association (PZPN) said yesterday it would not meet a Fifa deadline to set a date for leadership elections, thus endangering the national team's future in the European Championship.
World football's ruling body last week ordered the PZPN to declare an election date by tomorrow or risk being thrown out of Euro 2000, in which the Poles are in England's qualifying group.
Marian Dziurowicz, the autocratic leader of the PZPN, has refused to either bring elections forward from next year or to step down. Poland's sports minister, Jacek Dembski, has accused the PZPN of incompetence and corruption, and last week threatened to resign if new leaders were not elected within four months.
Describing the Fifa deadline as "unrealistic", yesterday the PZPN said it may set an election date within three weeks.
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