Veteran Polish diva to buy football club?

Maryla Rodowicz: photo CC

“Maryla Rodowicz has been presented with a proposal about becoming the owner of our club,” revealed chairman of the club Arkadiusz Jagodzinski.

Meanwhile, club secretary Robert Wisniewski has said that the singer has already agreed to help revamp the image of the club.

One of the first initiatives will be a concert in Koronowo, the profits of which will be used to beef up the club's coffers.

The talks came about after members of the Victoria Koronowo club read an interview with the singer in a Polish newspaper where Rodowicz rhapsodised about her love of football.

Keen to try all avenues in a bid to boost the side's fortunes, the club members wrote a latter to the singer.

Maryla's career, which began in 1967 after winning the Student Songs and Singers Festival in Krakow, has seen her record over 600 songs to date.

A regular performer at the National Polish Song Festival in Opole, southern Poland, Rodowicz remains much in demand on Poland's festival circuit. She has also made regular appearances in the long-running television serial Rodzina Zastepcza (Foster Family) as Aunt Ula.

Over the years, Rodowicz has performed duets with several Polish stars, including fellow sixties star Czeslaw Niemen, and current pop sensation Doda, although she said that the latter was “not easy to work with.”

This is not her first professional foray into the world of football. In 1974, she performed a song called Futbol at the opening ceremony of the World Cup in Munich in the then West Germany. (nh/pg)

Source: IAR