Izabela Lukomska Pyzalska (AFP) - Polish 2nd Division Warta Poznan strayers may have found a hidden arm in their combat to avoid falling: a former star player cover boy.
Izabela Lukomska-Pyzalska, 33, was named chairman of the club and committing to a heavy boat to try to save the decline Warta.
Lukomska-Pyzalska told rolling news channel TVN24 unfazed by macho football in Poland.
"This is not a problem for me. It's my food and drink," she said.
Lukomski Pyzalska-time leader in real estate and construction in western Poland.
"It's not really a world of women, either," she noted.
"I worked as a model a few years ago. I was in the construction and property development for five years. In these five years we have become a leading developer of Poznan. I think I can accomplish the same thing in football," she said.
"I do not have a touch of light to the construction industry; I'm looking for the stock itself. Order and discipline," she added.
Lukomski Pyzalska-even on the covers of Playboy, where she was "Playmate of the Year" in 2001, and adult magazines. She also appeared in the Polish soap opera, called "What men are afraid?"
Warta is ready to celebrate their 100th anniversary next year, making them one of the oldest clubs in Poland.
But its glory days are well in the past.
They are stuck in the top three in 1920 and 1930, and won the title in 1929.
On Second World War while the Nazi German occupiers forbade Polish sport Warta Poznan continued in secret in the league.
They won the championship again in 1949, but dropped the following year. Eventually, they returned to the elite in 1993, but remained in force for two seasons.
They're presently 3rd by lower in Division Two, in which case they are a tough battle, when the league resumed in March after the winter break.
