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Abstract
One of the management methods used by the Polish Football Association (PZPN) is management through exclusion. Due to such management, the Association constitutes to a considerable degree the status of individuals and institutions with which it enters into relations. As the essential criteria of these relations, the PZPN adopts utilitarian values, legal and business, diminishing the meaning of sport and moral values. From this perspective, the PZPN efficiently conducts the policy of exclusion it has created, dividing and rejecting those people and institutions who are incapable of contributing to the financial success of the Association. It also imposes various prohibitions on everybody who criticizes the workings of the organization or who accuses it of diminishing or even disregarding the interest of Polish football. For this purpose, the PZPN employs its policy of managing knowledge, which to a significant degree can be considered the propaganda of success.
Notes
1. http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/organisation/news/newsid=901479/. http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/organisation/news/newsid=892757/index.html.
2. The record of attendance – 1,20,000 spectators in the 1,00,000 capacity stadium of Chorzów – was set on 18 September 1963, when Górnik Zabrze was playing Austria Vienna in the eliminations of the European Cup of National Masters and won 1:0.
3. http://www.rp.pl/artykul/60511377506_Sponsor_przylacza_sie_do_kibicow___oswiadczenie_BZ_WBK.html.
4. In the years 1960–2004, Poland not even once qualified for the European Championship, in 2008 it did not leave the group, in 2012 it was qualified as one of the host countries, without taking part in elimination matches. As to the World Cup, Poland has taken part in it seven times since 1938, occupying twice 3rd place (1974 West Germany, 1982 Spain).
5. The term ‘management’ we understand mostly as a set of actions rooted in a system of values (e.g. utilitarian, business, legal or moral ones) and directed at the realization of concrete goals connected with the good of an organization, its members and the good of customers with which the organization enters into relationships. Griffin, Fundamentals of Management, 14–16.
6. Foucault, Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison.
7. Foucault, History of Madness.
8. Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic.
9. Foucault, The History of Sexuality.
10. Foucault, Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison.
11. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge.
12. Foucault, The Order of Discourse.
13. Foucault, Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison.
14. In Madness and Society Foucault mentions four types of exclusion, namely exclusion for the sake of (1) labour; (2) family and reproduction; (3) the freedom of language, speech; and (4) taking part in ludic activities such as games and festivals. Foucault, Madness and society, 335–42. Proposed by the philosopher, the types of exclusion are in our opinion essentially identical with the types of exclusion he described in The Order of Discourse. Consequently, we will not analyse them additionally later in the article.
15. Foucault, The Order of Discourse, 53.
16. The election took place on 26 October 2012. It was won by Zbigniew Boniek who gained 61 votes in the second round, whereas Zdzisław Kręcina obtained 12 votes.
23. Foucault, The Order of Discourse, 52.
24. According to Foucault, discourse should be understood in the category of rules responsible for construing speeches in various spheres of human activity.
Rasiński, Discourse and Power. An Outline of the Agon Policy, [in Polish: Dyskurs i władza. Zarys polityki agonistycznej], 32–6.
27. http://m.sport.pl/euro2012/1,117535,12074550,PZPN__Olejkowska__Euro_2012_to_sukces_Zwiazku.html.
29. Foucault, The Order of Discourse, 56.
30. Foucault, The Order of Discourse, 56.
31. However, the training of young people, as we have written above, is not a central value for the PZPN, but only a peripheral value. For this reason, these activities are treated instrumentally, most of all in creating their own image and physical ensuring of the continuity of power. In the budget for 2012, the PZPN decided to finance Students Sports Clubs and football schools with a sum slightly larger than 3,000,000 zloties. This is not a significant sum, taking into consideration the fact that the budget for 2012 is 62,000,000 zloties (it was 60,000,000 zloties in 2011 and 56,000,000 zloties in 2010). (http://www.money.pl/sekcja/korupcja-w-pzpn/)