karate. The club was sponsored by Tire Company Dębica and it had its heyday in the 1970s. Another team, Igloopol Dębica, was founded in 1978 and is the brainchild of a prominent activist of Polish communist party, Edward Brzostowski. Igloopol enjoyed strong support from the local government. Brzostowski was for some time Minister of Agriculture and director of Polish Football Association, so his favorite team prospered in soccer as well as in boxing, achieving significant successes. Igloopol's best years, the late 1980s, are closely associated with the peak of its sponsor. Lately, both teams played in regional lower divisions, hoping to win promotion. Both clubs contest the Dębica derby, one of the fiercest derbies in south-eastern Poland. Notable residents Paweł Bochniewicz (born 1996), Polish professional footballer Mateusz Borek (born 1973), sports commentator Krzysztof Cios (born 1950), computer scientist Seweryn Gancarczyk (born 1981), football defender Artur Jędrzejczyk (born 1987), Polish professional footballer Józef Lipień (born 1949), wrestler Kazimierz Lipień (1949–2005), wrestler Tadeusz Łomnicki (1927–1992), one of the most popular Polish actors Teresa Orlowski (born 1953), Polish film star and producer Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020), composer and conductor Waldemar Piatek (born 1979), football goalkeeper Leszek Pisz (born 1966), footballer Krzysztof Pyskaty (born 1974), Polish footballer Radek Rak (born 1987), writer, Nike Award laureate Ryszard Siwiec (1909—1968), Home Army resistance member who committed suicide by self-immolation in protest against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia Władysław Strumski (1922–1990), writer Paweł Wolak (born 1981), professional boxer, nicknamed "The Raging Bull" Jerzy Żuławski (1874–1915), writer, philosopher and translator Twin towns - sister cities Dębica is twinned with: Carei, Romania Kapuvár, Hungary Muro, Spain Obzor, Bulgaria Svishtov, Bulgaria Former twin towns: Puurs, Belgium On 13 November 2020, the Belgian municipality of Puurs-Sint-Amands suspended its 20-year-long partnership with the Dębica because of the town's adoption of the Charter of The Rights of The Family, which allegedly discriminates against LGBT people. See also Public execution in Dębica (1946) Adam Lazarowicz 1985 Zieliński brothers escape References External links 1358 establishments in Europe Populated places established in the 1350s Cities and towns in Podkarpackie Voivodeship Dębica County Lesser Poland Sandomierz Voivodeship Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Kraków Voivodeship (1919–1939) Holocaust locations in Poland Nazi war crimes in Poland 14th-century establishments in Poland