Jerzy Engel bluntly about Paulo Sousa. “It’s a sick situation”

. The selector only flew in for a day. First of all, the morning conversation with the president, which was also attended by the secretary general Łukasz Wachowski, director Marcin Dorna, spokesman for the Polish Football Association Jakub Kwiatkowski, and director of the management office Piotr Szefer.

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The conversation lasted an hour and a half and was dominated by two topics – the analysis of the match against Hungary, as well as the March play-offs for the Qatar World Cup. It ran in a good atmosphere. During the conversation, it was decided to close the elimination issue and focus on the play-offs. It cannot be ruled out, however, that it would not be so nice if, after losing the seed, the Poles were not so lucky in drawing the play-off brackets, where Sousa ended up with Russia, and later in the case of Sweden – Czech Republic winning the match.

“In the old days we used to meet every day”

– For us, as coaches from Poland, it is very difficult to understand the situation of the Polish Football Association. Today, when the selector is to talk to the president, it turns into an event as if heads of state were meeting. In the old days, we used to meet every day. Now it takes a special day for the coach to come to Poland. It’s a sick situation – Jerzy Engel said in “”.

– Polish coaches were taught that the work of the representation is 24 hours a day in the same place as the seat of the Polish Football Association. Therefore, we do not understand this. It is difficult for us to play the role of the current selector and understand his way of thinking so that we do not share him. We also do not share the fact that he does not watch the Polish league. He doesn’t meet with Polish coaches. This is unacceptable at all – added the former Polish national team coach.

Engel also referred to the rumors that appeared in recent days in the context of Sousa and the fact that he would leave the Polish national team and. “I can’t believe Sousa is talking to the club since he has play-offs for the World Cup in the pipeline.” But if so, it means that this man does not completely understand where he is and what representation is for Poles. He approaches it like another job. I do not think that he would treat the national team as responsibly as Polish coaches treat them. If these reports are true, then Cezary Kulesza and the PZPN board have a real problem – admitted Engel in “Prawda Futbolu”.